[Peter Berthet]

yes should be

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

and they are good 🙂

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

it can playback avi files
but most of the time theyre gonna show up red and require rendering

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

thats true
but the performance of premiere as a standalone is the same
the system cannot allocate more ram to it as it is a 32 bit app

sure you can run more stuff at once. . .

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

DONT DO IT. WARNING DANGER!!!!!

FCP is far more stable currently, and switching in my opinion would be a step backwards.
We currently have 5 FCP Suites here and one PPRO suite, all of us dread using the PPRO suite due to its serious software faults which tend to hamper workflow and generally agitate the user.

But to answer your questions if your still switching.

1. Is there a huge learning curve from FCP to premier?
No, both NLE’s are fairly similar in operation, some little things are different but the basic workflow doesnt differ too much.

2. Will it export FLV right from Premiere?
No, as of CS4 all export functions are tied in to adobe media encoder, which will export FLV, but is currently a horrible buggy piece of software which has killed my deadlines more than once.

3. How much power would I need to be able to render and still edit on the same machine from apple and yes G5 tower.
PPro generally doesnt need rendering on native clips in timelines to playback in realtime, assuming your hard drives are up to scratch and your running some soft of hardware acceleration like BMD cards.
You still need to render effects and altered clips.
On some of the more powerful Macs these days in FCP you barely need to render anything.

Thank you again for all your help and advice

Chuck Obie

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

theres this thread
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/3/890834

in which basically all the problems i was having were symptomatic of bad memory allocation, which adobe has how fessed up to and addressed.
although ill believe it when i see it

in the same thread i also suffered from the long project load times

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

Hi Jason,

Basically go through and have a read of what eddie linked as a background.

But essentially what you want is 4 channels setup in premiere as follows

A1 – Stereo L (This will be your full mix Left)
A2 – Stereo R (Full Mix Right)
A3 – Mono (Mix minus narration/VO)
A4 – Mono (VO on its own)

im not sure what package you’ve used to do the audio mix on this particular job, but getting the mixdowns out of most software packages is fairly easy, once thats done just bring them into premiere and sync them up with your video for a playout to tape.
Assuming your channels are routed out correctly you should be good as gold and very much on your way to a successful tech check 🙂

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

its interesting how much of that stuff ive complained about on the forums only to be told it was my fault and my system was faulty

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

and in regards to premiere, its a x86 program anyway and doesnt really gain any performance increase by being on a 64 bit system

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia

[Peter Berthet]

on a side note, for everyone using nuendo, once you fight to get your OMF out of Premiere it comes into nuendo 4 very nicely

~Peter Berthet
Sydney, Australia