[Rick Godin]

followup to my message last night that I have lost audio monitoring via workstation sound card while in Premiere with 7.1 drivers.

Now I cannot “export to tape” via firewire of an HDV project, no matter what I change. Guess I will have to uninstall 7.1 drivers in order to do other work.

And I was thrilled that I could now capture and print direct from BetaSP into my workflow. Any thoughts before I chuck this $999 card?

Anyone else do the 7.1 upgrade yet?

rg

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[Rick Godin]

downloaded the Decklink 7.1 update, reinstalled the board, installed drivers and voila, inputs and outputs work great!

Only thing is that I am not able to monitor audio via the workstation sound card any more from Premiere. Sound card is default audio device and selected on desktop. Audio continues to output via decklink outs. This is in a non-BM sequence.

Any thoughts? Otherwise, happy camper! rg

You never get hurt in the air!

[Rick Godin]

My HD Extreme board is about the same. All of a sudden, no video and just static on audio. Waiting to hear from BM if they can test it out for me.

You never get hurt in the air!

[Rick Godin]

Chris,
I will give that a try after a Blu-ray render is over. That would not involve “dynamic link” at all then, just copy-and-paste between programs, correct? If it works, I don’t care, just want to bring all things done in PPro into the AE comp.

Thanks, I’ll let you know. “render, render, churn, churn….”
rg

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[Rick Godin]

Todd,
When I take a PPro sequence, select all clips, go to File>DynamicLink>Replace With After Effects Comp it sends complete sequence perfectly to AE except that the simple cross dissolves are gone.

When I use Dynamic Link from After Effects, File>Import PPro sequence I get the complete sequence as one layer in AE WITH dissolves, but individual clips are merged. This would work for what I need to do but would love to have best of both when I get into AE, individual clips and dissolves already added in Premiere.

Tried this with simple DV clips (4) in a sequence to test workflow. This is going to be a great solution for a spectacular wide-screen presentation I am in development on. 50x12foot screen, 3 projector show. (not using DV for that!!)

I have installed all updates. Using Master Collection Suite. Not feeling like a “Master” with this simple problem.

You never get hurt in the air!

[Rick Godin]

move the playhead to the end of the clip; highlight the audio track you want to fade; hit CNTRL-SHIFT-D; and the default audio transition will be added to end of clip. quick and dirty.

You never get hurt in the air!

[Rick Godin]

Peter,
I’m in the same boat on the other side of the world. My business has revolved around corporate travel event video work for almost 30 years. We shoot hours and hours of footage at an event; log and load hundreds of clips; and “paint” with those shots a music video in extremely tight deadlines.

If all my clients hadn’t dropped through the bottom of the stock market this year and stayed on track with thier events, I probably would have been regressing to CS3 or even CS2 which seemed to work for location work.

My “home” commercial work revolves around similar large volume project files. Building tourism commercials, VOD’s, web video from several terrabytes of video clips collected over the years.

I got a bad taste for Mac’s years ago (maybe wrongly so) using edit systems that crashed for no reason so I really don’t want to go to FCP (plus heavily invested in PC’s). So let me ask: what’s anyone’s experience doing “mega-media” projects using Avid products? bought and tried Avid Express when I got Premiere 6.0 and for me, Premiere won out. Had been doing my cutting on a Panasonic Post box from Beta and was scaling down to DV to make the baggage load to Europe & Hawaii smaller and lighter.

Let me know about large volume jobs on Avid. Not long timelines, but large numbers of clips! Done those 2 hours jobs with 20 shots in Premiere, NO Problemo!

You never get hurt in the air!

[Rick Godin]

I have had the same issue with CS3 and CS4: work with projects that need large selection of clips in project to work with. Making multiple timelines with different stories, copying from one to another, more or less “painting” with video. When I get a project with over a hundred clips, openning it calls for a coffee break or even breakfast.

Looking for ways to optimize performance myself, I saw that button for “Link xmp data” mentioned above and wondered…… Think I’ll do a “save as” with current project and unlink xmp, “save” again, shut down and reopen it and measure the amount of time to open and switch between projects.

One of my clients has his picture in the dictionary next to the word “Impatient” and I would love to not continue to induce more stress in his life every time we go from one edit job to another and he has to wait. Anything would help.

Might this “Unlinking” also help or eliminate all the RAID-reading that Premiere seems to do when opening bins or changing from text view to thumbnail view? That is also a time-sucker.

Anyone have any thoughts on what negative effects “unlinking” the xmp data might have? Since most of my work I call “MASH” editing, I don’t care if I retain all kinds of info on clips. Never need to go back and reload from tape in most cases, just buy more storage.

Thanks to everyone here for all your insights!

You never get hurt in the air!

[Rick Godin]

agree with so much above. After having been tied to a keyboard editing since the TurboCube (Mac) and Postbox (win3.1) era, the only thing that has provented me from killing myself, others around me, and definitely black boxes full of chips and drives, has been the sneeze-like reflex of, “work, work, CTRL-S, work, work, CTRL-S….” Don’t care what the software, what the OS, what the box it’s in, “…work, work, CTRL-S”. Makes you a happier person when all flushes down the center pixel on the monitor.

Still beats carrying a thousand pounds of tape decks, swithcers, sync-boxes and monitors (and cheaper) to some location on the other side of the world. But have to admit that I have days when I want to get out the ol’ hammer (ver. 1.1) and go back in carpentry biz, but then I think better of that.

And that’s what I think!

You never get hurt in the air!

[Rick Godin]

I don’t hate anyone, in fact, I love the improvements in CS4 over CS3 in many ways. And having it in a 64bit environments saves me time every day. Not being the expert, can’t say for sure that any bugs, hangups, or memory dump crashes are Adobe’s error, Microsoft’s, or the workstation itself. But all in all, CS4 workflow is way beyond what it was before especially when doing projects which go in multiple directions/formats/mediums at the same time with the same story.

I just want to hook my ol’ BetaSP deck to the darn system for direct ingestion of vintage material and output for those stations who can’t use digital files for commercials yet. Blackmagic, gimme, please!!!! It looks so great!! And no way am I going back to CS3.

You never get hurt in the air!