Jeff Pulera
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Hi David,
I feel your pain, I jumped on the NLE bandwagon in the mid-90s, one of those brave (foolish?) “early adopter” guys so I understand the frustration.
If you choose to work in Adobe alone, which may be a good idea at this juncture, you should be able to use the Matrox DV clips as the Matrox codec is resident in the system.
Good luck
Jeff
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Preview during capture would be nice as well. I use the Matrox RT.X2 hardware and get both in CS3, including output to an HD display during capture! I thought CS4 might have caught up, not yet though
Jeff Pulera
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A good rule of thumb I found on the Adobe site is to divide 560/minutes.
This will give you the encoding rate, assuming AC3 audio. Your 80 minute program comes out as 560/80=7, so use 7.0 for encoding, and use CBR as suggested. At higher bitrates, VBR doesn’t help, just takes longer to encode.
Jeff Pulera
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Hi David,
I’ve been a Matrox RT.X100 user since it came out (I realize you have the X10, basically the same card) and have had only minor occasional hiccups. I have many, many friends and associates also using the hardware that swear by it and love it, so as a whole, the product is not defective. If I understand your post correctly, you are still using PPro 1.0, right? With each new driver release and update, Matrox products have gotten more stability (along with Premiere Pro getting better/bug fixed). Technology marches on, and I would guess that PPro 2.0 and newer Matrox drivers may have improved your situation with Matrox immensely (last supported release).
Most issues of the type you are having are resolved through tech support or the Matrox forums that I particpate heavily in. I can’t believe you have suffered for 5 years with these issues without getting some resolution. Being hardware based, NLE cards can be more fussy than software only, there are many area that can conflict and often times, something little can make life miserable, I know that.
If you make your living with video, of course you need something reliable. Might be time to move on and modernize, as the RT.X10 has been out of production for more than a few years.
I now use the RT.X2 and it is very solid and reliable with CS3.
Jeff Pulera
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I’m a Premiere Pro CS3 user, having my own production company, and have been using Matrox hardware acceleration for several years. Currently using the Matrox RT.X2, which provides realtime editing in CS3 (CS4 drivers soon), manaing NO rendering for SD or HD. If speed is important and you are considering Premiere, I’d look at Matrox as part of the package.
Jeff Pulera
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Hi Hector,
In the Premiere preview window, you can mark the IN and OUT points of the area you wish to cut, then click the EXTRACT button. This will delete everything between IN and OUT, and close the gap in one action. Hover your mouse over various buttons below window to see labels to identify these tools, or check HELP.
Important note – on left of timeline, where track labels are, they are typically dark gray, but sometimes a few tracks may be “highlighted” light gray – in this case, ONLY the highlighted tracks are deleted/moved, and this WILL throw sync out on other tracks. BE SURE to click on light gray tracks to make them dark gray (all match) before doing an Extract. If you make a mistake, then just UNDO with CTRL-Z and do it over, no problems.
Also, make sure no tracks are locked before doing this action
I use this a LOT in wedding edits
Jeff Pulera
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With CS3, use File > Export > Frame
If you have CS4, then I don’t know – I tried for 10 minutes the other day to do this on a demo system and could not figure it out, it appears to now work through the new Adobe Media Encoder, but it kept wanting to export the whole timeline as frames and not just the current frame. Lots of learning to do!
Jeff Pulera
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Hi Chet,
When a clip has been rendered, red bar above turns green. Since it appears you have one very long clip, when you cancel the render, none of it shows as rendered since it was not allowed to complete.
What you can do is use the “Razor” tool and cut your long clip into smaller pieces. If you cut a 5 minute piece at the beginning and at least let that portion complete before hitting cancel (it is green), then it should stay rendered.
Jeff Pulera
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Scale is found in the “Adobe Motion” effect which is already on each video clip, just open it to adjust, can also be keyframed for motion
Jeff Pulera
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Along with cropping, you may also want to use Adobe Motion to SCALE the video up to make viewable portion fill more of screen. You will still have some black surrounding because usable image is not the 720×480 required for video
Jeff Pulera
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