[Richard Baim]

4,096 X 4,096 pixels

Rich Baim

[Richard Baim]

Why not export to DVD instead of CD?

Rich Baim

[Richard Baim]

Thanks for the input. I captured the first 20 minutes and then the rest in two segments and it worked. Then I captured several more 1 hour DV tapes with no problems. I’m on Win XP and this PC normally works great with CS3 Premiere.

Rich Baim

[Richard Baim]

Jeff,

Thanks for your quick reply. I’ll take another look to see if I can figure what’s causing the problem. I also got input from Mike Velte, another Cow forum moderator, who recommends creating new projects and new folders whenever changes are made.

BTW, a quick workaround was to export the AVI, import it into Premiere Elements 4, and burn DVDs. This one was very simple with no menus.

Thanks,
Rich

[Richard Baim]

Greg,

The camcorder is acting as a digital to analog converter and it is in VCR mode. Firewire digital video and audio are coming in and analog is going out to the monitor. As you are editing, everything that you see in the Premiere program monitor on your computer monitor is shown full screen on the video monitor- use the yellow RCA output from the analog output cable of the camcorder. Audio can also be connected to your monitor or it can connect to a stereo amp if you want better sound- use the white and red audio outputs from the same analog out cable. What is the brand and model of your camcorder?

If you don’t want to disconnect your camcorder and then reconnect later on a regular basis, put in an inexpensive camcorder such as a Sony TRV-25 or something similar and leave it connected all the time. On one system I’m using an old Canon with a bad CCD for this purpose.

Rich Baim

[Richard Baim]

Greg,

You don’t need a breakout box to see NTSC video on a monitor. Just run firewire from your PC to your camcorder and use analog out from the camcorder to your monitor. In your Playback Settings, be sure to select Desktop Video to an external device, DV 29.97i (720 X 480). If that is not selected, you won’t see anything on the monitor.

Of course, other benefits provided by the box, such as analog video in and out, won’t be there. There are workarounds for issues like that if your main goal is support of an external monitor.

Rich Baim
Adobe Certified Expert & Adobe Certified Instructor
Premiere CS3

[Richard Baim]

Michael,

One of the most common project settings for editing DV is DV NTSC with 48000 Hz audio. Avoid MPEG and just import from DV tape via firewire as an AVI if you are on a PC. Does this make sense? Be sure your project settings are set correctly to get the best quality. Which version of Premiere are you using?

Rich Baim, M.Ed.
Adobe Certified Expert & Adobe Certified Instructor
Premiere CS3

[Richard Baim]

Daniel,

Thanks for your input. The traditional route makes sense. I’ll record using Adobe OnLocation on a laptop with a large external drive and run DV tape for backup. OnLocation will save about 30 hours of ingest time. Then I’ll use Sorensen Squeeze to create FLVs with a custom skin.

Because of high volume & the need to upload files to a server on the same day as recording, I have used a Viewcast GoStream for real time encoding and then Windows Media Editor to break the WMVS into smaller segments without recompression. The GoStream can output FLVs and I’m wondering if there is something similar to Windows Media Editor, WME, that can be used to quickly split a long lecture into smaller parts without recompression.

Rich Baim, M.Ed.
Adobe Certified Expert & Adobe Certified Instructor
Adobe Premiere CS3

[Richard Baim]

My plan is to encode the FLV with Flash Media Encoder 2.0. The source will be a video camera and wireless mike. One scenario is that the presentation will be 1 1/2 hours and it needs to be split into three segments.

This project will have approx. 30 hours of content and I’m trying to streamline it.

Another possibility is to record AVIs using CS3 OnLocation on a laptop and then bring the AVIs into Sorenson Squeeze.

Any other ideas?

Rich Baim

[Richard Baim]

I have captured HDV with an FX1 using a P4 3.0 PC with hyperthreading. What are the specs on your PC?

It does not take an extremely powerful PC and I have used external USB2 drives without a problem.

Rich Baim