[Peter Berthet]

ive never had this one, but if it only happens with titles or jpegs in the timeline, select the in and out points of the clip with the work area bar and render those on their own.. if that works then keep those renders and do the rest of the timeline as a whole. might solve your problem

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

are you talking about straight cuts/dissolves/wipes ?

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

without seeing it my guess would be a scene change with a bunch of motion blur on it

rather than using a dissolve youd have to bring the joining section of your 2 clips into after effects and drop them into a new comp, position the outgoing clip in the centre of the comp and the incoming clip to the right, or left.. your choice
check motion blur on both your layers and enable motion blur on the whole comp
once youve done that you just have to keyframe in the ‘motion’ of the clips so they move at the same time to the right or left, one clip goes out of shot, and the new one comes in

assuming you get the timing right on the keyframes the motion blur effect should handle most of the work for you, and there you go! you have your sitcom effect

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

red means its unrendered, which is no big deal in After FX cause it will do a less than realtime playback, but whatever your bringing back into premiere will need rendering before it will play in real time

red is bad, green is good!

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

if your running xp or vista you can use windows media encoder, it has pretty solid support for analog capture devices and should let you capture to a format that you can then bring into PPRO

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

I dont know for certain whats causing the problem, but to find out a bit more id suggest the following.

Export out of PPRO into some sort of file format, and play it back. Assuming theres no sync problem there, bring the file into your authoring program.
Play the file in the authoring program, if theres no sync problem then continue.

That would at least help you figure out if premiere is doing it, or your authoring tool.

As far as your colourgrading, no there is no easier way than hooking up a monitor to your edit system to check the pictures during the edit.

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

Yeah like Jon said,

Your PC more than likely can suck in the DV video you want.
But DV AVI files will need rendering to edit

If your looking at getting a Macbook, your more than likely gonna have to go with a MacBook Pro … cause apple in their wisdom removed firewire from the standard macbooks….*grumble*

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

youtube uses h264 as their preferred method of compression

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

CS4 constantly talks to Adobe when your using it. If theyre saying that theyre going to cancel your CDKEY and reissue another one its very likely your windows software will eventually tell you that it cant be used and lock you out.

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

the best way would be to stay uncompressed for your entire workflow and only render out and compress the video at the end for your client

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia