[Michael Mohr]

Thanks for the input. I can see already just from doing the trial version and the tutorials what you mean by eating the elephant one piece at a time. Now to play a little more and then see if I can justify the switch. Especially thanks for the footage ingestion tip. This could get interesting.

[Michael Mohr]

I figured as much but I didn’t have much time to try and figure out what other codec to use. I’ve done very little in HDV and this was the first time I needed to really use AE for video compositing. Most of the time it’s been motion graphics. It didn’t turn out bad though and it got converted to SD widescreen in the end. Now I just have to figure out which codec to use for future productions and how to manipulate the settings (at least until I get CS5)

[Michael Mohr]

Dave,

Thanks for the information. I ended up using AME to recode the footage (as an MPEG2 believe it or not) and it worked just fine.

[Michael Mohr]

Mike,

Thanks for the info. I think I get it now and it comes from your second point. If whatever was used to create the DVD doesn’t produce a flag like you described, the video won’t play back in the proper perspective on a 4×3 system. That makes sense. The DVDs that I got were from a JVC HDD camcorder and DVD docking/share station. I could see that not having the extra encoding.

[Michael Mohr]

You may not think you’re a guru but you just saved me a mjor headache. Thanks for the link to the site. This is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[Michael Mohr]

Vince,

Thanks a million!

[Michael Mohr]

Adam,

Thanks for the info. I ended up using TGA’s. I also have a Matrox RTX2 card and there is an option to convert the files into a Matrox AVI which worked really well. However, I plan on in the future updating to CS5 and ditching the Matrox card so the the information is good to know. Now I just have to learn what all this new stuff does. Thank god for 3 free months of cineveristy.

[Michael Mohr]

Steve,

Thanks for the information. I had posted this question to PNY regarding the FX3800.

“If I am running the new Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 and I get a Quadro FX 3800 can I connect a computer monitor and an HDTV to the card and then view my Source or Program window from PPro full screen (NOT A WINODOW) on my HDTV?”

This is the response I got.

“Yes you should be able to do this provided you enable the full screen overlay within the adobe program.”

Is this accurate?

[Michael Mohr]

I really like the idea of ditching my current realtime card in favor of the Mecury Engine. Less wait time for updated drives and such. I am just wondering though, how would one go about viewing the Source and Program monitor full screen? Would you use firewire to a deck and then to the monitor or is there a way to hook up a second monitor to the Nvidia card?

[Michael Mohr]

Vince,

You are da man! Thanks a bunch. This is exactly what I was looking for.