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Not at all. It’s quite common to have this sort of problem when adding hardware, particularly hard drives. (a) In simple terms it’s a matter of following the signal (data) path. Both drives being hooked up to the same data cable spells obvious problems and if this can be overcome (and it can) the solution may be quick and easy. (b) the new drive works and has been formatted correctly so its unlikely to be the cause and at this point replacement would be unnecessary.
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An early solution may be to attach each hard drive to its own channel (cable). Make sure the hard drives are both set as “masters”. Add your optical drive behind one of the hard drives as a slave. Premiere Pro seems to favour seperate channels for its scratch disks and for a number of other reasons.
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It was the Matrox driver. Premiere Pro can only identify multiple processors.
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The simple answer is that viewable signals cannot fit up the firewire (in realtime) from the timeline. Once the signal is commited to the camera you can view your video. The only answer to monitoring HDV in the short term is from a suitable graphics/capture card or external converter with analog YUV output. You could also watch SD composite but not for long. nVidia, and more recently Matrox have released graphic cards suitable for the HDV purpose but you need a PCIx bus. Dont forget you also need a HD monitor of some description otherwise viewing your output will be no better than your computer monitor or your camera LCD (which is also SD)
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You can easily overlook some of the great benefits of Scenalyzer without knowing it. Scenalyzer will scan and record (index) a 60 minute DV tape in 5 minutes (x12). The recorded AVI can be viewed at x12 speed which is fine for previewing tapes for shot selection. You can then select those shots and capture. Brilliant piece of software, inexpensive and great when you have over 800 tapes to search constantly.
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Sorry David, I should have added “when committed to tape etc.”
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Tim, do you use the Aspect HD codec (rather than 1.5.1) and do you get video out of your 540 card?
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And all video camera footage is compressed!
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Try using an HDV timeline, import the DV footage and in the “Project” window right click the DV clip and select “Interpret Footage”. Select either DVWS 16:9 or HDV as your chosen format. A lot will depend on how good your original DV footage is.
DVWS will give you a slightly wider picture when projected digitally whereas HDV will be slightly narrower in comparison to your original HDV footage. A quirk of Prem Pro. When underscanned you won’t see any difference.
This is also a good way of seeing how terrible defacto WS is. An ordinary DV shot stretched has far more resolution than a defacto WS.Redgum Television Productions
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SP2 is almost essential now, drivers, plug-ins etc. as well as PremPro 1.5.1
We’ve put it across five machines without hassle, however –
We used the Microsoft CD and NOT the download and 3 of the machines were new SP1 installs then SP2 (not upgrades). In this country you can get a free SP2 CD from just about any PC reseller.Redgum Television Productions
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