Jeff Pulera
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With any edit system, you should always have a dedicated video drive. Your OS and programs go on C: drive, then all video files, projects, scratch disks are set to one or more fast, dedicated drives. Turn off INDEXING on the video drive for better performance
Jeff Pulera
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Hi Andrew,
Don’t mess around with the DVD specs, or you will have headaches down the road with incompatibility with clients.
You mentioned 1080×720 source video – what format is that? 720p is 1280×720, and I think there is a variant at 960×720, but 1080×720 I’m not familiar with.
Anyway, NTSC DVD must be 720×480 in the end
Jeff Pulera
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Hi David,
An i7 machine with 12GB and an nVidia display card will work fine with AVCHD footage. Adobe requires certain card models for use with Mercury Playback Engine, and the GTX 470 would be the least expensive (though you may hear of a hack that will work with additional nVidia cards). You WILL want the nVidia card to get the full CS5 performance.
Right-click in the Program Monitor window and check the “Playback Resolution” – I’ve seen blockiness in AVCHD footage until I change to FULL from the default HALF, at least when running Matrox hardware.
Regarding hard drives, for AVCHD you don’t need a huge array or anything – you can set up two internal SATA drives in a Windows RAID 0 stripe set for performance.
As for Matrox – the MXO2 Mini is an external device/breakout box that connects via the PCI-e bus with included adapter card. It provides analog and HDMI capture and playback with CS5. Features 10-bit hardware up-down-cross conversion on capture AND playback. Includes Matrox plug-in effects for Color Correction and Keying in realtime.
With AVCHD, of course capture is not needed, but Matrox provides full-quality, full-frame rate HD monitoring to an LCD, as well as cross and down-conversion capability without render. Provides a better realtime preview than Premiere alone (connected to a second PC display).
MXO2 Mini can also be ordered with the MAX option which offers hardware, realtime encoding of H.264 formats like Blu-ray output.
If you have any questions, look me up
Thank you
Jeff Pulera
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“…and anyway it doesn’t happen the other way around does it. ie. i edit AVCHD files (which are way more compressed delivery format) and output to WMVHD….”
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Exactly, it doesn’t happen the other way around….WMV is a delivery format, so you are reversing the workflow. AME is not going to optimized to encode FROM WMV
Jeff
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WMVHD was never intended as an editing format, it is a highly compressed delivery format. So, you are converting from one complex codec to another, a lot of processing going on, this is not a standard workflow.
Jeff Pulera
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If trying to capture HDV via 1394, here’s a few tips:
1) In deck settings, turn off “i.Link Convert”, as the default is to convert HDV to DV.
2) If there is a “VCR setting”, it may be on AUTO or DV – set it to HDV.
3). Turn deck OFF. Close Premiere. Turn deck ON again and wait for PC to recognize it. Launch Premiere and choose proper HDV preset. Capture.
Jeff Pulera
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You can’t preview HDV through the 1394, only DV. With CS5, you can set up a second display off the graphics card to provide full-screen HD monitoring. I prefer to use a device like Matrox MXO2 Mini or BlackMagic Intensity Pro to provide an HDMI output for true video quality output from CS5.
Jeff Pulera
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Hi John,
That seems like a good application for DL! Had to ask, because I see folks asking about DL when the program is only 90 minutes. While I have gone as long as 160 minutes on a 4.7GB DVD, it certainly depends on the content. A static talking head shot can look great at low bit rates, but content with a lot of detail and motion will of course fall apart.
Jeff
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Hi John,
I have to ask – what is the length of the video program? Curious, because in the past I’ve seen people using DL when they could’ve got by with single layer by just changing the data rate, simplifying the whole process and saving some money as well.
Jeff Pulera
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Hi Sara,
What often works is to create a NEW project with the same Sequence Preset, then Import the old project. It will come in as a folder, you need to then open that and open the sequence
Jeff Pulera
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