[Nick Brown]

The last project I needed to digitize VHS Hi8 & 3/4″ tape was many years ago. I was able to enhance these legacy formats using a Digital Rapids encoder. It has filters that greatly reduced interlaced artifacting and noise. Some of the tape was dubs of Betacam to VHS and I was amazed at jump up in quality. It was a bit more work to set it up but the results were much better than the Matrox RTX card I was using then. I was editing in an early version of Premiere Pro and created 422 MPEG2 files. MPEG2 files work well with PP CS6 and they are easy to scale the 4:3 to HD time lines. I can color correct in PP and can achieve a close enough match to the XDCAM videos saturation and contrast. I still have the Digital Rapids encoder with a DR1500 card ready but rarely use it. Possibly, the Digital Rapids HD encoders would upscale better?

[Nick Brown]

From My EX1 came with 1.15 and I needed to contact Sony to go through the update procedures over the phone. At the time I updated to 1.26. This solved many problems with using SDHC card with an adapter.

US Sony tech support 800 883 6817

I’m waiting for a call back now to update to the latest firmware. I believe it might be 1.3. Has anyone done this? Is there any improvements in functionality? Faster start-up?

[Nick Brown]

I just had the unsupported or corrupt file problem in a CS6 project. On the timeline that was working perfectly when I closed the project 2 weeks ago one video file was not loading and appeared red in the timeline. Using Sony’s media browser, it play as it should. The tip of it being a cache file problem was correct. I re-created the PluginCache file by closing PP then holding down the SHIFT key and releasing it when the initial workspace appeared. This cleared up my problem. I’d almost forgotten about this solution because CS6 has been very stable.

Remembering the days when Adobe was improving the horse it rode in on. I needed to use this trick often in all versions from 4.2 on When I started editing with Adobe we were ridden hard and put away wet. Premiere was a rightfully a joke to professional editors. I started with Adobe because I couldn’t afford a better but much more expensive system. It could get the job done but not without a considerable amount of frustration.

This horse need to edit every few weeks but when I do need to edit I enjoy working in PP. I’m wondering, have I been put out to graze, no longer needed in the race to dominate the creative software industry? Will the subscription only policy be changed? I hope so because I don’t want to support a company that does not value the customers to build it’s empire on. It will cost me $600 a year to upgrade with Adobe that’s as much as I spent in 3 years before the subscription only went into effect.

I am very thankful that Adobe built the great CS6 environment for me to work in. I just hope that the Adobe marketing team can find a way to have a editor without a $600 per year budget stay with them.

[Nick Brown]

Why do you need 4k playback?

Unless you have a very controlled environment like a theater and the trade show isn’t NAB and your client is a 4K equipment company then HD video is still excellent quality and 4K playback is not worth the expense.

Simple answer is transcode to 1920 x 1080 and burn a Blu-ray disk.

[Nick Brown]

I’ve always used the S-Video and RCA audio to digitize Hi8 because it is 4:2:2 video and holds up better when than using a DV converter that brings you into a 4:2:0 or 4:1:1 color space. Some graphics cards have a S-Video port but I use either a Matrox RTX, MX02 or if I want to filter out the interlaced artifacting, I use a Digital Rapid system to make the video better than the original Hi8. Then you can pick the level of compression and format that will give you better results than DV. Frequently I use a QT format or MPEG2 and sometime AVI depending on the scope of the project.

[Nick Brown]

Very stable PPr CS6.0.5

On Windows 7 64bit 8g,b USB3 2 hard drive striped RAIDO
If your system is crashing, it’s most likely the hardware or preferences settings. Because the configuration is critical to building a stable system with the fast throughput making CS6 so productive.

Starting with CS 6.0.3 I finally have an operating system. I started with Windows 98 and 4.2 and there have been huge bugs most of the way. Today I am finally VERY happy with CS6.0.5.

I see no reason to go to the cloud because If I did my system would definately crash when I stopped paying monthly.

[Nick Brown]

740m has 384 cuda cores, enough for a decent editing system. If you’re considering a laptop look at the HP Elitebook. There’s plenty of sources to search on best graphics cards and how to change the adobe cuda_supported file. The more cuda cores and memory the better.

[Nick Brown]

Joey,
I suspect your GPU is the problem.

I was using a similar ATI card with a Q9450 CPU. It worked well with CS4. When I upgraded to CS5.5 so many things went bad and the culprit was the ATI 4850 card. I switched to the Nvidia 560Ti and CS5.5 loved it. Upgrading to CS6, I had problems until 6.03 update solved them. I’m able to ad the card to the Cuda Supported list but this must be done every time Premiere is updated.

[Nick Brown]

I clean installed the NVIDIA 295 drivers and it did not help.

Working Solution
Using the same project file on the same SDHC card and the same media on the same RAID, I transferred the project to a HP Elitebook 8450P. It has a i7, 8GB RAM, USB 3.0, Quadro NVS 5100M GPU. The same problem clip now works flawlessly on this system.

So what is causing the problem?
The Intel 9450 CPU?
Asus P5E Deluxe?
NVIDIA 560 Ti?
USB 3.0 card?
I use default settings on all hardware and software.

Is there a way to test the BIOS settings and what should I look for?

Like the video tearing problem that after six month went away in 6.0.3, this bug might be fixed in an update but when?

[Nick Brown]

Big tearing problems with a Quad 9450 and CPU and Geforce 560 Ti
NO Problemb with a HP Elitebook Qi7 and Quadro 5100M except I might go blind editing on a 15″ screen.