R. Hewitt
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It’s hard to define it as a ‘video equipment’ market.
Broadcast equipment is the top-end of the range followed by Professional, Pro-sumer and finally consumer. For Sony and others, these are very distinct bands. As far as sales are concerned the largest number of sales (not profit) comes from the consumer market followed by the professional and broadcast markets. The broadcast and professional markets are where the profits come from. Pro-sumer is an oddity in that it is higher-end consumer equipment used by serious amateurs and some ‘professionals’ ie. those that make an income from using their equipment. These are not to be confused with the professionals who make their living from the equipment and their skills.
Adobe are trying to aim Premiere Pro at the professional/broadcast market but they simply don’t understand the needs of those markets and are continuing to lose out to Avid and Apple.
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After Effects and Photoshop are indeed used by broadcasters the world over. The reason for this though is the very capable applications developed for professional use that meet the need of the users. Premiere is a complete non-starter simply due to it’s lack of media management capabilities and does not fit the workflow of the majority of network ‘pros’.
Yes it’s great to have integration between the applications but Adobe have left it way to late to tempt any broadcaster away from the products they know well – Avid and more recently FCP.
It’s hard to imagine why the management/marketing team of Premiere simply do not understand the need of the users when they have After Effects and Photoshop spot on.
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You could do no worse than buy a Sony J30SDI. This relatively cheap player will playback BetaSP, SX, DigiBeta and MPEG IMX. It has SDI as well as a Firewire output and can be controlled from your NLE via the Firewire or RS422 ports.
Note that this is a player only. For recording you could easily pick-up a BetaSP recorder secondhand or possibly an SX machine although these are largely restricted to the ENG operation. DigiBeta is by far the best option quality wise but they come at a big price.
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Well none in the UK anyway.
The Major limitation here is the lack of proper media management tools and no end-to-end solution. On top of that Adobe don’t listen to what the professional & broadcast market need and therefore limit themselves to smaller networks that can’t afford Avid systems or who haven’t discovered FCP yet.
The development of the Matrox Axio product will help in the HD market but many broadcasters have already started to upgrade their Avid systems to support HD editing.
Premiere 2.0 is too little too late to be taken seriously by the major broadcasters.
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A 30-Sec and often longer lead-in was used when a station was feeding to the transmission network. This enabled each station on the network to be fully aware that the next programme was rolling and acted as an additional countdown to the end of their local inject.
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I couldn’t agree more.
There must be many like me who have been using Photoshop/InDesign and Illustrator for many years and who bought the Video Collection for the video apps that were required. Now There is no upgrade option that suits what I need. I either pay again for apps I already have and don’t get all the upgrades I need, buy a Video Production bundle and get apps I don’t need or buy seperates.
This time unless Adobe get there marketing act together I’ll stick with what I’ve got. They really don’t understand the market they’re operating in.
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If you’re dealing purely in the DV world then there is no appreciable loss of quality by putting your finished edit back to tape as long as you’re using firewire.
When shooting material the compression rate from the analogue CCD to digital is 5:1 and is fixed on each frame of the image recorded.
While connected via firewire the data is a digital transfer (cam–>PC and PC–>cam) and free from any further compression.
If you keep a copy of your project file and titles you can then go back and re-edit in the future as long as you’ve kept your original source tapes.
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When you say the system quits, are you saying your G5 shuts down?
There is a known problem with failing firewire ports on some G5 Macs and this may be the cause.
The quickest and probably cheapest option is to by a firewire card to install in your Mac.
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You should be capturing with no compression at all other than that of the camera when creating the DV source.
Can you let us know what you capture and project settings are.
Are you capturing via firewire?
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When capturing in Premier, are you looking at the captured video on a TV monitor or on your PC monitor?
The ONLY way to assess video quality is with a viewing device designed to show TV format video and that is a TV monitor.
No LCD monitor or PC CRT monitor displays at the correct resolution, scan rate or interlace pattern.