Jim Gunn
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I upgraded to Premiere Pro CS5 from CS3 recently and had the same question. I found this thread through a Google search. You penned my same concerns and bewilderment at the awkward solution Adobe is using now for the Media Cache Files and Media Cache Database. We are stuck either letting these files build up until they completely clog up our C: System Drive (or clear them periodically); or we have to assign those two folders globally for every project to only one of our external drives. I have many unrelated projects on many external drives and sometimes edit on a laptop or other system with external hard drives attached. Why can Premiere no longer put all those folders and their files automatically into the same folder as each project on each drive it may be on like it did in earlier versions instead of either just the C Drive or one and only one external assigned drive? This is a very poorly designed system!
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You may be better off exporting as one big AVI file and using a splitting tool to split the AVI files into the two to four second chunks. The only issue is that those are such short clips that they make not split cleanly.
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If you want the best quality video from a DVD I would recommend this workflow. Use DVD Decrypter to extract the VOB files from the DVD to your hard drive, then DVD2AVI to convert them to uncompressed AVIs plus a .wav of the DVD’s audio file. This process will create a large number of very big AVI files. Then add these AVI files in sequence and the wav files to a Premiere Pro timeline to do any editing and then output to a DV AVI file from Premiere Pro. Then you can encode to any final format that you want in a full featured video encoding app like Cleaner XL 1.5 which can add your watermarks if necessary and make the WMVs, Quicktime, MPEG, Flash, Real or whatever other formats that you need at any frame size or bitrate. I have achieve great quality results this way.
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Too bad Scenalyzer Live can’t capture HDV otherwise I would still use it!
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I have used Cleaner XL 1.5 for video encoding for many years now but Sorenson Squeeze is faster and better for Flash Video and some other formats.
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This is a well known Cineform issue with Aspect HD. It has been improved in recent versions, but still exists to varying degrees depending on which Cineform version you are using, (There is a new updates as of yesterday actually), and mostly depending on which video card and settings you are using in terms of overlays. etc. Cineform has their official support forum on another online digital video forum which has many threads that describes this in great detail and the steps you can take to minimize the color shift.
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I think it is a Sorenson issue with the ON2VP6 codec. I tried to encode some DV AVI files into flash video files using Sorenson 4.5 and the ON2 VP6 codec and halfway through the 30 second videos the video was out of sync with the audio.
Using Adobe Flash Encoder it worked perfectly though from the same source files.
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It does the same with the linked video option. Sorenson just can’t seem to handle keeping the audio on On2 VP6 codec Flash video clips in sync. Adobe’s Flash Video Encoder CS3 worked just fine though. Shame about Sorenson, it does a few things so well but it also lacks the ability to add watermarks to encoded videos, another big failure as far as I am concerned.
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“Unless tapes are stored under ideal conditions like cool, low humidity, in the proper orientation and go through a wind/rewind cycle every couple years they can have a short life expectency”
That is nonsense. Mini-DV tapes are very robust and last a long time with almost zero care. I have mini-DV tapes from a decade ago that I had stored loose in a box at room temperature with no special care and also stored some in a storage unit which I recently recaptured. The physical tapes themselves look flawless and the data recaptured perfectly. At worst, one just has to copy the tape every decade or so to make a new pristine copy that will last many years.
Winding and rewinding tapes especially sounds like a bad idea. In any case there is no better or cheaper option to store dv or hdv footage, especially if you film a lot of video like I do.
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I do a LOT of video encoding from Dv and hdv sources and I have been using Cleaner XL (now ver 1.5) for pc for years. It does a great job with batch video encoding to multile formats and has sophisticated controls including color correction and audio filters and many other things.
I have also used the latest version of Sorenson Squeeze (4.5) and it has a somewhat friendlier interface than Cleaner XL and encodes much faster, especially for Flash video which it handles beautifully. However one major thing Squeeze lacks is the ability to add a watermark to the finished videos during the encoding process like Cleaber XL can. That is a major flaw and that is the main reason that I still use Cleaner XL 1.5 to encode to WMV, Quicktime, Real and other formats for my clients.