Nick Hill
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Ahhhhh…… that’s sorted it, thanks. Still finding my way around CS4 😛
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I’ve been using CS4 now for a few days – I installed it (perhaps stupidly?) midway through a project, but so far it hasn’t screwed anything up majorly. It does a few things differently from CS3, and seems to have a few odd bugs, but presumably these’ll be ironed out. The best thing about it so far is a better Media Encoder, which works a lot more like After Effects, in that if you’re editing something with multiple sequences, you can send them all to the media encoder in a queue, and then go away and leave it – rather than doing them one by one with CS3, then being told when it’s almost done that “the application failed to return a video frame” when it runs out of memory. The Speech Search function is a bit of a white elephant, as far as I can tell… I used it on a talking heads clip with decent audio and no background noise, and it transcribed nothing but gibberish.
Oh, and another possibly useful thing is that formats are now set on a sequence rather than project basis, so you can have one sequence at SD res, another at HD, or whatever. Haven’t needed to use that yet but it sounds like a good idea (and one that all the other major editing packages have had for a while anyway).
I don’t think it does anything you can’t live without, compared to CS3, so if budget is an issue I don’t think you’ll lose anything by sticking with CS3 for a while. Plenty of people still use CS2 after all.
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Aha – I thought it’d be something like that. Thanks very much for demystifying!
Cheers
Nick
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that’s very very helpful. Thanks Filip! Didn’t know the zoom fact either, which will help too. 🙂
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that’s an interesting one, hadn’t thought of trying that. Just tested it with a random clip from the middle of the tape and it seems to have worked fine (I wouldn’t have expected it to conform the video & audio to 25fps but it has done). And thanks to Peter’s “purge” tip it’s not filling the RaM up any more either. Cheers both 🙂
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Cheers, I’ll try that. Never knew about the secret menu… thought I was using a compositing package, not Mario! 🙂