[Jon Barrie]

Green Screen in Premiere Pro is okay if you know advanced techniques like track matting etc. Best results use Keylight in After Effects.
Capturing direct to Premiere Pro should be fine if you have a hardware and codec combination that will record the 4:2:2 colour space. AspectHD by Cineform will record in that colour space from firewire, but I think the Canon only outputs the 4:2:2 from the component outputs, firewire might only have the 4:2:0 like it would record to tape. Depends on the complexity of the green screen action (hair moving, fast action, etc) 4:2:0 could still key something decent, but you need to know about advanced techniques in Keying, can take time to get a perfect key.
1. Premiere Pro, not made for powerful keying (matorx axio in PPro has great keying plugins).
2. AE for Keying
3. Make sure the colour space coming out of FW is 4:2:2 other wise you might aswell be coming from tape.
4. There are converter boxes that take the HD-SDI component cable run out to firewire – check the net for more.
– Jon 🙂

[Jon Barrie]

Sometimes you can import the project into another one.
Best bet would be to open the latest autosave version. (There will be missing editing but you’ve got a point to start from at least).
– Jon

[Jon Barrie]

You can set the render files AKA: Video/Audio Previews to another place in the Preferences Setting “Scratch Disks”
That might help.
– Jon 🙂

[Jon Barrie]

Have you got all your resources (assets) on the one drive? How much of the project you have rendered? Try dumping that.
Seq> Delete render files.
I found that asking my system to remove unused clips once I’d got the cut really up and going unstable edits (larger one’s) would start running fine after that.
– Jon

[Jon Barrie]

Hi Erik,

I’ve done some research specifically on your camera DVX100 and the 24p 24pA phenomenon. As I mentioned earlier, the “problem” is directly related to the footage not actually being 24P (like film really is) it is ingested at that rate but actually recorded to the tape inside a 29.97fps interlaced format.

There is nothing wrong with the timecodes, it’s showing you what the real “hidden” timcode is on the tape in 29.97fps. When you work in a 24p or 24pA project it does the 23.976 rate for you, incase you are working with real 24P film based footage, but the option you are using will show you what is really happening with the tape’s TC reference to actually capture the footage again in a batch, etc.

Check this link by Adobe.

Do some quick tests to edit and offline some footage and batch capture it. I’m sure it will come in properly.

– Cheers, Jon

[Jon Barrie]

I’m not sure why the deck stops during the print to tape… that could be many reasons…

But to get audio out to the machine while playing back the timeline and edting for that matter:
1. Project> Project Settings> General..
2. Click on the Playback Settings…
3. Realtime Playback, Tick Desktop video display…
4. External Device… DV (whatever your deck is)
5. Mark the dot in “External DeviceAudio”

You won’t hear the playback on the computer with this setting but it is going to the deck/camera.

Make sure Export… External Device is set to your DV deck too.
That should help it export to tape properly… there could be other reasons why the deck stops though. There is a switch on the back that could be causing an issue i forget what it’s called….

Hope this helps.

– Jon

[Jon Barrie]

‘display the footage in source framerate’

I’m really not sure what you mean…

You say you’ve got drop frame 24p and 24pa footage. That might be where the problem lies in it’s difference of 29.97 with pulldown based Progressive and actual 24 frame per second.

The source frame rate is…what and how are you altering it to get this different result?

– Jon

[Jon Barrie]

Did you render the timeline first? (Not that you actually have to…) – Press Enter to render. Should make any red lines on top of timeline go green.
Did you have the 3rd button on the top left of the timeline switched on? (Only in CS3) – Turn it off.
What type of project settings are you working in? PAL/NTSC, Custom QT based Project?
– Jon

[Jon Barrie]

You will need to keep the same clip settings as in if it had audio in the original the replaced on will too.
I’ll see if there is a way to mess with the clip info so you can bring it in.
If you have audio connected then you will lose the audio edits… that’s why it won’t let you do it.
– Jon 🙂

[Jon Barrie]

Right click on the file in question in the project panel.
Select the “Make offline”
media files remain on disk (OK)
Right click it again and select “link media”
Direct it to the avi
– Jon 🙂