Nathan Tinsley
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I found that the move from CS3 to CS4 was actually an improvement in terms of response. Briefly here are my specs:
Dell Vostro 410
Single Quad Core
3 gigs ram
2 TB video disk RAID 5
NVIDIA GTX280
Windows xpI’m editing exclusively HDV with no hardware acceleration and no external monitors connected, just the desktop. In CS3 I always noticed that if you minimized or left Premier to open a file browser or something then when you maximized or clicked back on Premier you got this 10-15 sec hourglass in the mouse and had to wait. This got pretty annoying after a while. I noticed in CS4 that this hourglass still occurs but it’s more like 2-3 seconds now. I also feel like it is snappier in terms of responding to my keyboard commands. I have had a few crashes but not so much that it interfered with my work flow. I also REFUSE to go to VISTA!
OK now on to my non technical beef with the new CS4. I get what they are trying to do with the video and audio tabs and I support the idea just not the way Adobe did it. Now you have to tab AND highlight the tracks you want to record onto. If you forget and leave a track highlighted that you don’t want to record on, you blow away material. So you constantly have to make sure you have both a record tab AND a highlight on a track lined up before you do the edit. Just do it the way final cut does it and be done with it! V A1 A2, it’s simple and easy to understand. No STEREO tracks, that useless thing they’ve done for YEARS! This little audio pet peeve of mine has been perhaps the single greatest issue for me ever since I started using premiere. I WILL HANDLE MY OWN STEREO thank you very much on TWO audio tracks that I WILL KEEP TRACK OF! Yes adobe has addressed this finally in CS4 but you have to decide in the preferences how stereo is handled and it’s just plain cumbersome and hard to use.
I also miss the simple export audio and export still commands. I know they’re using the media encoder through the dynamic link but frankly it took too long to open up. My premier project is large and Media Encoder took too long in my opinion to open “Project # 3”. I mean I already have “Project # 3” open in Premiere for crying out loud! I just want to export a wave. This cool new dynamic link actually wasted my time rather than giving me more time.
OK that’s it. I’ll stop. I’ll still keep using CS4 and adobe products because I’m a PC person and for the most part I like the interface.
Nate
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I have found that the capture window does show quite a bit of what is called COMBING, meaning that the edges of things that are moving in your shot from left to right or right to left are jaggy like a fine tooth comb. What you’re seeing is the actual fields at that point and I’m not sure why Premeir shows them to you this way and I think it only happens with interlaced originals. HOWEVER for me when I look at this same footage on a timeline the combing is gone and everything looks ok. So my question is how does the footage look on the time line? If it looks ok just ignore the combing artifacts during capture. But definitely start with a fresh PAL DV25 project with NO PROGESSIVE scan options as others have suggested.
Good Luck,
Nate
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Well all I can say is it happened to me. I marked in and out about 10 minutes on an HDV1080 60i tape and let Premier capture it as a whole. In that 10 minutes I had started and stopped the camera about 14 times. But CS3 does NOT split scenes so I got one large 10 minute clip. When I played this clip back the first few minutes were in sync but by about 7 or 8 minutes into the clip the audio was so far off I couldn’t even calculate it. It was several seconds. I then used HDVsplit and recaptured that exact same place on the tape and got 14 unique clips which I imported into Premiere. Each clip was perfectly in sync!
The real issue is the starting and stopping of the camera. If you have a tape with one continuous clip on it then there wouldn’t be a sync issue since there are no start and stops of the camera.
Perhaps someone else out there could enlighten us with exactly why that starting and stopping creates the audio sync issue.
Regards,
Nate
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Hi Aaron,
I’ve never used the HD100 but I know that mixing frame rates is typically a problem in most NLE’s. I also have had trouble with capturing HDV in CS3’s capture utility. I’ve had better luck with a free program called HDVSPLIT. Google it. It works very well and will split the scenes on your tape if you have any. If you do have scenes and you capture long sections of tape WITHIN premier your long clip will gradually loose sync with the audio!!! You can thank HDV’s long GOP compression scheme for that! Do a test and pull in a few minutes of the 24p stuff from your tape and see what happens!
Good Luck!
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Aaaaaahaaaaaaaaa……
Compression, compression, compression! So necessary and yet on occasion such a BANE!
Thank you all!
Nate
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Well it definitely says “CONFORMING clip001.m2t” in the bottom right hand corner just like my old Pro 1.5 version did. (I skipped 2.0). However I neglected to mention that I used HDVSPLIT to capture the stuff. Is that the issue? It also takes about as long as conforming used to in 1.5. Does the PEAK creation take as long as conforming?
Thanks,
Nate
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I am back again with the SAME PROBLEM! POWER FAILURE ON MY DVX100!!! It has been about 9 months since the last failure and now I’m practically ready to ditch the camera!
This time was similar to the last time. After using it I powered it down and it never came back. I had been using it in my basement. I do have a dehumidifier running down here and it doesn’t feel too damp. I never did put desicants in my camera bag. Perhaps it is related to humidity. I do keep the camera down here in it’s case. Bad idea? Maybe. I’ll post more when It comes back from the shop.
Nate
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Did you try increasing the number of key frames? Typically the setting is AUTOMATIC but if you bump it up to 300 or 400 the bit rate goes way down and things begin to get a bit blocky! Either that or just simply lower the quality bar until it looks crappy! I know how you feel though. Give ’em an inch….! Good luck!
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Very true. I agree with you. This isn’t going to work really unless I can have presets ready and then I write up an SOP for everyone. However we are in an ALL PC environment running Avid Newscutters, hence the need for QT movies for importing. Isn’t Compressor only available for Mac?
Thanks.
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Well I had it professionally repaired so it was around $150-200 with parts and labor. The fuse itself is not expensive but I think you need to take it apart to get to it. I’ve only taken mine apart once and it was very un-nerving! Good luck!