Jeff Pulera
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Hi David,
The GPU means a great deal to the performance on CS5. The Adobe Mercury Playback Engine relies on the nVidia GPU to perform many effects without needing to render first, and the GPU also accelerates encoding of H.264 output using the CUDA cores of the nVidia card.
If you use the ATI card, CS5 will be greatly handicapped, relying on your CPU alone to do all the work.
Regarding the RAID – is that the only hard drive available in the system? If so, this is not good, since Windows would be installed on this drive. The video drive MUST be a physically separate drive in the system, apart from the OS. A single SATA drive would be great for the OS and programs, then the RAID can be used for video.
Safe Harbor builds certified Adobe systems specifically for video editing if you wanted to get any comparison pricing.
Thank you
Jeff Pulera
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Any SATA drive would provide “adequate” performance for video, but a RAID 0 with 2 drives is preferred since performance is basically doubled, or another way to look at it is each drive has to work only half as hard then.
If you decide to stick with a single SATA video drive, spend a few extra dollars and get the “Enterprise” or pro version with 64mb cache, and avoid “Green” drives (energy savers), these are not high performance.
While I normally edit with RAID 0, I just did a large, multi-camera HDV project with a single SATA drive and I could hear the heads banging around – it had to work very hard for scrubbing layers!
Jeff Pulera
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Right-click the clip on the timeline and check “Scale to Frame Size”. Doesn’t fix the frame rate mismatch, but should fill the screen at least.
Jeff Pulera
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Ah, Canopus did that to stay below the dreaded 2GB file size limit I believe. That was some time ago!
What you want then is the check the “Scene Detect” box in the capture window, and this will break up scenes from the tape and sequentially number them. Does this on the fly for DV clips via 1394.
Jeff Pulera
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Do you need 6-minute clips to keep them small for sending over the net or something like that? Adobe will not automatically split captures, it is just one long .avi file of any length, no capture limits.
Jeff Pulera
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I understand now, Andrew has a lot of very helpful tutorials, glad you got your answer
Happy New Year
Jeff Pulera
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Not sure I understand the question correctly, but here goes. The way I edit with 2 cameras is to put the MAIN camera on track V2, and the “cutaway” camera beneath it on V1 (sync the clips up of course, looking at audio waveform or visual cues).
I can then play or scrub through the “main” camera footage, and when I am moving or otherwise find the current view unacceptable, I use the Razor tool and cut out that part of the V2 clip, which “reveals” the cutaway camera then. It is always there whenever I need it. Note that you should right-click the clip and choose “Unlink” before you start cutting, so the audio is not cut out with the video.
Another method is to use the MultiCam option in Premiere, which allows you to view both cameras at once during playback and you can switch between the cameras on the fly, with Premiere recording your edits, like using a “live switcher”, though you can still adjust the edits after the fact as well. There are plenty of tutorials/instructions available for MultiCam so I won’t go into that.
Hope this is what you are looking for
Jeff Pulera
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Well that would also be news to me if After Effects was converting every video file that was imported.
Jeff
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To my knowledge, “Conforming” is just for the audio, Premiere never converts any video files being imported. See this Adobe link for a clear explanation of Audio Conforming:
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/PremierePro/4.0/WS00AF9E2E-9F99-4aff-8961-1E2F30E9ECCC.html
Jeff Pulera
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You said you previously had the Matrox RT.X2, so you should be familiar with how that allowed you to connect an actual VIDEO DISPLAY for previewing SD or HD output, rather than a “computer display”, which to me just is not the same output quality.
Matrox currently has the MXO2 Mini which would provide the output you are looking for with CS5. Output also available from BlackMagic Intensity Pro. Matrox will not work with your Vegas 10 though, not sure on BlackMagic support.
As pointed out already, you really should be looking at a proper nVidia display card for CS5 to get some real editing performance, otherwise you are missing out on the Mercury Playback benefits.
Jeff Pulera
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