[L. D. james]

All the answers so far are good ones. I use the ADS Pyro A/V Link. It works great.

Another alternative is a VCR that has a firewire IO. A number of them are being sold with the feature to backup your VHS’ to DVD’s. If you have a lot of VHS tapes it might be a good idea to get a device to kill two birds with one stone.

— L. James

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[L. D. james]

Hi, Hector. I see lots of reasons to go with 2.0 over 1.5. I notice that if you have a lot of rendering to do, it breaks it up into 2700 frame parts so that if you cancel the rendering so that you can play a segment, you don’t loose a lot of time.

The flexibility of the Panel/Window placement is worth lots of praise. It makes it easy for you to access your preferred frequently used panels.

I was hoping to see background rendering and a host of other features. However, I can wait for many of them. I see a definite improvement over 1.5, and would miss the many new features if I had to go back.

There are lots of features I find worthwhile. Maybe some of the other users will mention some of their favorite.

— L. James

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[L. D. james]

Wil, thanks for your contribution to this thread.

I wasn’t complaining about the sluggish action, I just made a reference. I had already noticed the components about the frame display and had incidentally already made the adjustments you referenced which eased the sluggishness. I only referenced it as a response to Paul’s question.

If it sounded like I had a tone of aggravation, it is in reference to Premiere stopping the preview when it looses focus. I’m glad export to tape doesn’t stop. That’s my only option at this time to conveniently use that feature, as I can’t loose all computer quality time when reviewing my work.

I’m actually hoping that others would see my point and make a statement so that the powers-that-be will consider fixing this problem. There shouldn’t be any need to consider it, if no one would appreciate it.

It could be described as anxious, but I don’t like to be idle when at the console. I type over a hundred words a minute. I like reviewing this forum as well as others when I’m at the console. It would be convenient if I could leave the preview running while I read and reply to your message.

I applaud Adobe for the efficiency I see built into Premiere Pro 2.0. It renders very fast. The Real Time Preview looks excellent on either my second computer monitor or the composite monitor passed through the firewire (and both). I remember when you had to render to get firewire output.

I appreciate the possible fact that they may try to shield the user from having a poor preview by canceling the preview if it looses focus. But they don’t have to do that. It would be better if they included a user preferred option in this regard under the playback settings. Let their “Disable Video Output when Premiere Pro is in the background.” refer to canceling or pausing playback when lost of focus or Premiere Pro is in the background.

I wish one of their reps would pop in and apologize for the oversight and mention that it will be fixed in the first patch/update release.

I did the same type of plea for the inefficient use of resource that had all the Windows/panels locked into the Workspace. I thought they should be available in their own window so that you could use your desktop and secondary monitors more efficiently. Many of the Premiere users didn’t want to make waves with the developers and explained that all you had to do was expand your workspace over to the secondary monitor. I’m sure they are enjoying the ability to undock the panels and convenienty place them anywere they pleased in their system’s environment. That was an unspeakable waste of desktop real estate. I’m glad they fixed that. Now I’m hoping for a address of this very important oversight.

By the way, just curious, I’d be glad to know the size of somebody else project file besides mine. Could you check the size of your project file and let me know? Maybe of the current project you’re working with or maybe the last project you completed? Thanks in advance for any consideration to make a reference.

— L. James

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[L. D. james]

Hi, Paul. Thanks for the input in this thread. I

[L. D. james]

Thanks, Paul, for the input. It’s kind of slow and sluggish in responding when bringing Premiere into focus after using some other application. However, while it’s focus, it’s outstanding.

What’s the size of some of your project files? I recall in previous versions the file used to be small enough to edit in notepad.

— L. James

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[L. D. james]

You’re right, Mark. The Premiere built in MainConcept codec is not available to any programs out side of Premiere. You will have to purchase the MainConcept separate to have it available to any other programs.

— L. James

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[L. D. james]

Thanks, Mike. The previous thread on slow rendering had me wondering. I was sure my video was type 2 as I use the latest version of MainConcept for compression. I just didn’t see a set an option for the type.

All my AVI files can be open with all the Video Players on my machine.

— L. James

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[L. D. james]

Jwedit. Tim is right with his comments. However, I seem to have read your question different from to response Tim gave. It seemed that you were asking why Premiere had to render and uncompressed avi file. This is because it works with files that has been compressed with one of the DV codec standards.

Your uncompressed AVI file should be 5 times larger than one that is compressed to a DV standard (the way it comes from the DV camera).

— L. James

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[L. D. james]

The bridge does all the things Adobe and this forum referred plus more. However, it wouldn

[L. D. james]

Everybody, sorry for the double post. I was checking the spelling of my message and made a mistake and submitted it twice.

Anyway, Victorypoint. thanks again for the link and the input.

— L. James

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