Rhewitt
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Industrial DVD?
Are you referring to the mass produced DVDs for Movie release or for duplication by yourself.
The Movie DVD’s are stamped in a similar process to good old vinyl and cost a small fortune to have produced. You would need to output your DVD data to tape and hand that over with buckets of cash.
For DVD duplication, you can buy a rack/stack of DVD recorders that can duplicate your final DVD. Some also print the DVD graphics too.
For After Effects the more power the better but also RAM. Win XP is limited to 4GB but that amount cannot ‘normally’ be made availale to the application. There is an option for a /3GB switch at XP startup that will allow the maximum amount of RAM to the application while limiting the OS to 1GB. There is also an application ‘Nucleo’ that can handle the larger RAM sizes for you.
CPU wise, most stick to Intel and the high-end Xeon processors. Core2 Duo CPUs are fast but currently don’t support hyper-threading.
For Premier Pro, stick with a simple sound card such as the SoundBlaster Audigy 2 or better, an external audio processor to help eliminate noise pickup from your computer.
I used a simple AMD 3000+ processor with PPro 1.5 but it struggled above 30-mins. Also beware that Premier Pro 2.0 MUST have a processor with just to install it as it makes use of these instructions, which rules out AMD based motherboards. Check on the Adobe website for further details and supported processors on this.
If you intend to add any additional hardware such as accelerators (Matrox etc.) check out their websites first as the cards don’t support all motherboards and chipsets.
As for disk space, check again with Adobe and the forums for advice from people who have been through this process. DV is not that demanding but you may want to use other formats in the future ,HDV for example, where the hardware requirements may change. HDV for example is an aquisition format and is best transcoded for editing.
Hope this gets you started.
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Boy do you have an agression problem Bob!
No matter what your ignorant thoughts, I’m not going to be dragged into an argument.
1. I’ll simply say that 30-years at a senior level in the broadcast industry accounts for a fair amount of experience.
2. The world is much larger than America.
Chose the tool that is best for you and the job in hand.
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It did it to me in 1.5 as well.
A 45-min project repeatedly needed rendering when starting editing for the day after shutting the machine down overnight.
I eventually found a work around – moved to Avid Media Composer!
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Best to describe what you’ll be using Premier for before deciding on a spec.
1. Will it be for shorts (upto 30-mins) or long-form >30-mins.
2. What video format are you wanting to use? DV/DVCam/1:1/HDV/HD?
3. What is your output format? TV/Web/Mobile devices/DVD?
These will help decide which editing application is best to use, CPU speed (faster nearly always best), memory requirements and disk space.
Let the folks here know and I’m sure you’ll get some experienced replies.
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Welcome to the pain that is HDV!!
HDV is a heavily compressed format with a long GOP and requires substantial processing power to handle.
The best way to deal with it is transcode to another format for use in After Effects – Quicktime?
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Okay, but not wanting to start a fight.
Avid editing systems are professional tools used by the majority of editors of feature films, broadcast and professional TV around the planet.
Final Cut Pro on the other hand is used by many home enthusiasts and some professionals.
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There’s no reason why you can’t use DNxHD to edit with, visually you will have to try very hard to notice the difference, and re-link to the original HD source once you’re ready for full-res output.
AJA IoHD: With this high performance hardware and codec, you can work on the road with 720 and 1080 HD, all in full-raster 10 bit 4:2:2
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It could be an effect of changing the motherboard. PCI/PCIe channels vary reatly between motherboards and some applications are very specific about which slot to use due to the way the bus is segmented.
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It’s always best to dip the background audio during a VO. Avoid using a compressor to automate it as they’re slow to respond and sound un-professional.
Perhaps the easiest way is to lay down the tracks as required and set keyframes on the background audio track to control the volume level during VOs.
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[normco] “What do I need to buy to be able to digitize compnenet in from the Beta deck”
Is this an SDI Mojo or component mojo? If its a component model, you’ll need an Avid supplied component to S-Video cable. You should be able to order one for Avid or a reseller. If your mojo is SDI, you’ll need an RGB to SDI converter. Aja makes a good one, as does Miranda.
Component video is standard on both the analogue and SDI Mojos using the cables supplied with the Mojo.