[Mike Schmitt]

SOrry, I don’t have a reference file for you yet. The camera hasn’t been released yet.

Look up the )Panasonic HVX200 and you’ll see the camera I’m talking about. It is very sweet.

[Mike Schmitt]

The deal is that I’m a Premiere user, too, and Panasonic hasn’t as of yet sold Adobe the codec.

The only PC Programs that edit DVCPRO and DVCPRO HD is Canopus Edius (which can also have an accelerator card) and Avid Xpress.

If you buy a Matrox Axio sytem for about 15,000.00, you can edit DVCPRO in Premiere.

Problem at this time is that even if you edit with Avid or Edius or even Premiere with Axio, you cannot import the the DVCPRO file into After Effects.

If you have a fast, dual Xeon system, render time shouldn’t be that bad, if not in real time for editing.

[Mike Schmitt]

After Effects and Adobe products don’t support DVCPRO or DVCPRO HD.

I do a lot of work in After Effects.

MY workflow would be to edit in Avid then move over to After Effects and I would rather keep it in DVC Pro.

So what I guess I was asking is: IF you are editing in Avid a project in DVCPRO HD, how do you get it into After Effects without rendering an uncompressed file that Tarabytes in size.

[Mike Schmitt]

Ty:

I ordered your book.

What do you think of the Shure FP 33 field mixer?

Thanks

[Mike Schmitt]

When you say the sam OS, you you mean using Windows 64 on one and XP Pro on the other won’t work?

[Mike Schmitt]

That’s what I wanted to hear.

You’ve confirmed what my buddies have told me and suggested a product that I already use to encode my DVDs.

Thanks again!

[Mike Schmitt]

Okay. I use Main Concept MPEG encoder for my DVDs.

Are you saying that I can reliably switch to this codec to replace the Microsoft?

One of my buddies took raw footage and did his own cut of one of my projects in Avid XPress. His output looked much better than mime. I assume now that it is the Avid CODEC.

Can I use Main Concept in After Effects, too?

WHat about 16 bit?

[Mike Schmitt]

Oh bother.

That’s okay. I’m downloading the demo version now.

I use Primatte with fantastic success, but there are a couple greenscreen shots that were just not bright enough to give me a good key, but the were the best performances by the actors.

Hoping I can huse this tool to get a cleaner matte.

[Mike Schmitt]

This tool doesn’t come included in Color Finesse, does it?

And thanks, by the way, for the response!

[Mike Schmitt]

Oh, I’ve tried uninstalling Premiere and removing my user settings and deleting the premiere files on my C drive and reinstalling. I get the same thing.

I’ve opened other projects from the past and they play back in the program monitor as 16/9 until I make a change in the timeline, then any clip I have changed starts playing back in 4/3 again.

I can open the clip from the timeline into the source monitor and it is 16;9 as it should be.

Thanks again,

MIKE