Lloyd Coleman
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I can’t tell you how to speed your system up, but I do think it is performing well below what it should.
My machine is several steps below yours (Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, 2GB RAM) and renders 30 seconds of HD footage slowed to 50% in 1:35.
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It does not come with the settings because you can’t work with HD in the trial version. I believe it has something to do with paying for mpeg codec/licensing that does not happen until you purchase the program.
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My first guess would be that your cpu is overheating when the extra load of rendering is placed on it. I know you said you installed a cooler, but it still may be overheating for several reasons.
It is very easy to check the temp and then you will know if heat is the problem or not. My motherboard came with a utility that monitors the cpu temp among other things. If you don’t have monitoring software I think it is easy and cheap to find it on the web.
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I was suggesting to do it this way: Move the current time indicator (red line) on the timeline to the point that you want to start the cut, don’t use the program window to set in and out points, just make sure the timeline window is the active window and press the ‘control’ and ‘K’ buttons at the same time and all track in the timeline will be cut. Go to the end of the cut point and do the same again. Now you will have a piece of your timeline that is cut across all tracks at the same place. You can then select each of the tracks that are cut and delete them or move them somewhere else.
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If you move the current time indictor to the position on the timeline you want to cut and then press control+k it will cut all tracks at the same time.
I hope this is what you were trying to do.
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I am not familiar with the details of the DVX100A, but if the camera has a way to feed the DVD footage from a DVD player (RCA cables to camera, RCA cables to AV plug, etc) and the camera can be used as an analog to digital convertor, then you can play the DVD into the camera and then back out over firewire to the computer and capture as an AVI file. I have done this many times using other camcorders. Be aware that you are still taking a compressed format from the DVD, so the quality of the AVI file will not be the same as the original footage.
You could also try copying the VOB file directly from the DVD and renaming the extension from .VOB to .MPEG and try bringing that directly into Premiere. I don’t remember how PPro 1.5 handles this. I have had mixed results trying this method.
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Nick,
Are you using a full version of Premiere Pro or a trial version? I understand that the trial version does not support HDV editing (do to mgeg licensing issues) and would probably, therefore, not have HDV presets or capturing options.
I can capture HDV footage in a DV project or DV footage in an HDV project. I just change the capture setting like you are trying to do. My version does have the new project presets and the capture options in either a DV or HDV project.
You can download presets for Canon HDV projects from the Adobe updates page for version 2 and use them in PPro 3, but they along with regular HD presets should already show up in PPro 3 if you are not using a trial version.
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Make sure you click on the transition itself (purple box between clips), not the clip before or after it. In the Effect Control panel you should then see the controls for the transition. It will have two rectangles named A and B representing the clips. The 4th item below these rectangles is the ‘Reverse’ setting.
Let us know if you find it. Good luck.
Edit – it looks like I posted this while you were responding
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Click on the transition in the timeline and you will see controls for it in the ‘Effect Conrols’ panel. Click on the box that says ‘Reverse’ and it will go the other way.
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Do each of your drives have a unique drive letter? If you have not assigned a drive letter to each drive and been careful not to use the same letter more that once this can happen. When you plug a drive in to the USB hub without a drive letter assigned, the computer just gives it the next available name at the time (D,E,F,etc). For example, if the last time you used a project the drive was automatically assigned E and now you plug it in and the drive is assigned the letter F, Premiere will look in the E drive for the files and not find them.
I have several external USB drives and they stay straight for me most of the time. It seem that even when a unique drive letter is assigned if I plug the drive into the hub at a different location I might get this problem, but I’m not sure.