[Jonathan Shohet]

Thanx vince. I don’t know about ntsc or 24p. The standard here in Israel is Pal so I work exclusively in it…

Is there a big difference between encoding to dvd straight from the premiere pro’s mainconcept codec, and between exporting to avi uncompressed, encoding to mpg with the standalone version of mainconcept and then authoring to dvd with encore or some other authoring program?
And if so, should the avi uncompressed be progressive and the mpeg-dvd lower-field, or should both of them be lower-field first?

[Jonathan Shohet]

Thanks Steve,
Since mt budget won’t allow at this time for both raid-0 and raid-5 setups, I am trying to figure out if it is a good solution to use 3 drives in raid-5 as my only video drive. But it seems to me as if you use your raid-5 setup just for archiving\backup, no?

[Jonathan Shohet]

thanks 🙂

[Jonathan Shohet]

I know Geforce are also 3d cards. I just thought that the only reason to choose a much more expensive workstation 3d card over a gaming 3d card was if you work with 3d programs or use particle effects in After Effects and so on…

Does anybody know what exactly are the benefits of the Quadro over the Geforce if you mainly use Premiere?

[Jonathan Shohet]

Hi Luke,
Thanks a lot for your response, the “Intensity” card does look like a good choise. I have a few more questions, if you don’t mind…

1. Your site list the nvidia quadro cards as compatible, but not the geforce cards. will I have compatibility issues if I buy the geforce 7900gt?
2. When you say “Premiere Pro should play back in real time without any problems assuming you have 2 GB of RAM for HD video”
does that mean I can preview video from the timeline without rendering, or will I have to render to disk first in any case? with dv, you don’t have to render in premiere, so does Intensity\Decklink allow me to achieve the same with uncompressed, or at least with some “nearly uncompressed” blackmagic codec?
3. Do the Intensity\Decklink cards have some sort of hardware processor to help the cpu speed up rendering times, or do they only deal with capture\monitor output?
4. I’ve been told that a fast disk array is important for performance in premiere. Will the Certified SATA II HBA’s :
3ware 9550SX (PCIe)
Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 1420SA (PCI-X)
Highpoint RocketRAID 2220 (PCI-X)
listed on your site provide a noticable performance increase over the intel onboard raid controller that come with the motherboard?

hope these are not too many silly questions, but I really am clueless about video cards…
lots of thanks,
Jon.

[Jonathan Shohet]

“VirtualdubMOD” is a free and excellant prog that can read VOB files and export them to avi.
If the audio of the dvd is in AC3 format, you also need to install the free “AC-3 decompressor” so that Virtualdub can read it.
Both programs can be found at http://www.free-codecs.com

[Jonathan Shohet]

thanks for the reply.
At least I know that the targa problem is a known one and not just a problem with my system.