Mike Velte
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30 screen triple row…and one must inquire about pricing…inquiring minds want to know.
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I cant see the use for a 3rd PC monitor (other than HD)…but most of us do have a 3rd NTSC or PAL TV monitor attached to our workstations for preview. While Windows does support dual video cards, there are some restrictions, like both must be identical?
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Creating neat slide shows with Premiere can be done, but short cuts dont fit in the workflow. I do quite a few pics to video projects and could not do these efficiently without ProShow Producer.
Preview; automatic image preview resize…try this in Premiere with a 6 or 8 MP pic.
Motion; random motion to a selected group of pics,,,very easy motion keyframing.
Transitions; random transitions to a selected group of pics
Duration; instant click and drag duration changes to a selected group of pics.
Text; tons of animated text motion presets
Easy layer masks…
try a demo at photodex.com -
Make sure your host has video MIME settings or video will only download and not play.
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For movies less than 1 hour, 2 pass is just a waste of time. Even using PCM audio one could go as high as 7800 kbps CBR which is just about as high as anyone should go, so 2 pass has the same peak limits.
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Windows Media Encoder 9 is free and works well…maybe your MAC can be set up with one of the newer Parallel Windows Universes… or an old PC lying around.
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Editing and recompressing already highly compressed video is waste of time. Windows Media Video and most other web formats are lossy compression codecs.
To get decent quality video at 1 mbps, one should start with at least 25 mbps digital video. DV is lossy, but ever so slightly and can be re-edited and recompressed several times without noticable loss of quality.
Now if you are just doing straight cuts only…no titles or effects, Windows Media Encoder 9 comes with a File Editor utility that can cut clips. Then there are a few “joiner” apps that will join the pieces WITHOUT recompression. I use Rejump Video Joiner on a rare occasion for this. -
[Steven L. Gotz] “Well I’ll be a Monkey’s Uncle. I just learned something.”
I guess I am your first cousin then cause I did not know that either!!
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Is the video DV that you captured with Premiere or some highly compressed stuff?
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I suspect a large amount of assets is not the total cause of large project files. I suspect a large cause is editing in the timeline…dragging clips around, changing in and out points…rearranging stuff continuously…basically just too much mouse clicking in the timeline. I have seen relatively simple project files grow to 50-75 MB apparently because the editor dropped his assets directly into timeline in no certain order and spent hours rearranging things.