Norman Lafranchi
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With an HD Decklink card ($999) and enough hard drives you could preview HD in realtime.
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Amen to this post.
Even if Premiere Pro is for a lower-end market, it makes no sense to me why their media management is so weak.
A guy doing a wedding video – he’s captured 13 hours of DV footage, and has 300 photographs, and 77 lower thirds to put up for guests, members of the party and family dogs.
You don’t think he wants some decent media management? He puts a feature film to shame!
And the PPro media management is very, very weak. They’re like, OK letsee, folders? Oh cool. and you can hopefully find something if you’re lucky. But you can only find one thing at a time. Search and put results into one bin? You wish! God help you if you didn’t fully prepare your capturing and your bins before you started the job.
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If you need to spend money on a converter anway, you should consider just buying a Consumer DVD Recorder. It’s much, much simpler for that kind of thing, unless you need fancy menus.
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Wow thanks for that link! That stash DVD magazine is a fantastic idea, I’m suprised I’d never heard of it before. Does anyone here subscribe to that?
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The short answer to your question is yes, but the long answer is that you may also need to replace your computer in order to get the use of 3-4 monitors.
With the new NVidia cards (or ATI), and new NVidia (or ATI) chipsets, they support an “SLI” function where two cards can be joined together (requires an SLI motherboard). With the cards joining forces, you can either have a) twice as much GPU power or b) 4 monitors instead of two.
If you go to the ASUS website here:
https://usa.asus.com/products3.aspx?l1=3&l2=15&l3=226&slname=NVIDIA%20nForce%E2%84%A24%20SLI%20X16
This is an example of a new SLI motherboard.These types of products are aimed at gamers but they’re very handy for editors/compositers, because almost every new product being released (example: Premiere Pro 2.0 and After Effects 7.0) supports OpenGL acceleration of effects. (For the extreme example of the benefit of OpenGL to editors/compositors, see Discreet’s Flame/Smoke.)
If your current system supports SLI, you can do 3 monitors, with two new graphics cards if not, not.
But trust me, other than doing three monitors, your Parhelia is going to be holding you back with some of the new software out there. I’d rather have the extra benefit of better OpenGL than the third monitor.
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The decklink card works fine and it’s cheap. I would dump the Parhelia and get a proper graphics card, a high end gaming card like the NVidia 7800 GT with dual-DVI output will give you great OpenGL performance for Premiere Pro and After Effects or any other compositing package which uses OpenGL, without breaking the bank.
The OpenGL capabilities of the Parhelia are pathetic compared to a card like this.
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Sapphire has a film-look plugin which works with Premiere Pro 1.51, (don’t know about PP 2.0) and AE/Combustion.
It’s nice, and very fast. Has a nice glow.
It’s probably not as nice as the aforementioned, but it’s good for quick jobs. Sapphire also has many other plug-ins, some I find indispensable. (Edge Rays, matte tools, et al.)
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It’s set for “Highest” quality.
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I believe that the Mac/FCP/Decklink combo is still way, way more powerful than the PC/PremierePro/Decklink solution. The last time I used FCP/Decklink was two years ago (I use PPro now), and at that point it was still MUCH more powerful than what you can do with PremierePro/Decklink now, especially in terms of effects. For example, you can do many layers of realtime, 10-bit effects on an FCP system, but not on the PC. Also, support for 10-bit video in FCP is there, and not in PPro.
In the HD world, FCP is also more advanced in FCP, with the availability of many realtime software based HD effects. In PPro, with HD/Decklink, it’s a cuts-only machine with rendering required for any effects (except maybe dissolves.)
I haven’t used FCP/Decklink for awhile so I imagine it’s even more advanced at this point. I currently used PPro/Decklink, and am happy enough with it, because we don’t use 10-bit or need much in the way of advanced effects capability.
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You may have to transcode the file to a Blackmagic format in order for it to work. Could be done in After Effects, Quicktime Pro, or other. Or else, render the file from After Effects in a BM codec.