[Robin Chin]

Does anyone out there know someone who has worked with CS6 Premiere Pro with only 8GB RAM? I’ll probably only use full HD footage and basic moves on stills and light effects.

Does having many hours of footage on an external drive (simple Seagate Backup Plus 4TB, USB 3 drive) slow down the access time?

I already have an iMac 2012 with 3.1 GHz Intel Core i7, 16GB Memory. NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 512 MB, and 256GB storage but want to use a laptop with CS6 Premiere Pro to be more mobile.

[Robin Chin]

Thanks for re-directing me! I just posted it there.

[Robin Chin]

Appreciate everyone’s great advice. You made it much clearer for me to get the Macbook Pro.

Thanks very much!
Robin

[Robin Chin]

thank you everyone so far on this post. Very helpful to hear your advice.

I want to have the macbook air as a light traveling computer mostly but wanted to see if it would accommodate any smaller, lighter FCP work if necessary as an option at home. Was excited at thinking it could work but so far seems no one has been using it as a reliable editing computer.

I’m interested in getting more opinions and hearing other’s experience on the subject over the weekend.

If I wanted to get the newest macbook pro to use for editing (and After effects) would it be wise to get the most upgrade possible for the long run or could I do well to save a little money? Thinking of this configuration:
Macbook Pro 15″
2.7GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7 (could get 2.4GHz)
16GB 1600MHz DDR3L SDRAM (could get 8GB)
512GB Flash Storage (could get 256GB)
Has: Intel HD Graphics 4000
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 1GB of GDDR5 memory and automatic graphics switching

Thanks for your thoughts on all this.
Robin

[Robin Chin]

Here are settings that I got to work:

Audio/video settings:

Seq preset: DV NTSC 48 Hz

Capture preset: HDV
Device control Preset: Sony HDV Firewire

Hope this helps.

[Robin Chin]

I want to put it onto DV tape and then bring it to another location to put it on a DVD.

I think I need the tape (& camera setting) not to be 16:9 but be seen as letterbox format. Need to figure out sequence settings etc.to do this. Want to send the DVD recorder a 4:3 format I think.

[Robin Chin]

I have tried to change it and even called the manufacturer but they were not able to help me. They said the recorder did not accommodate the 16:9 format even though it lists those formats.

Does anyone know if there a way to export a quicktime of the sequence with the letter box in the 4:3 format and then bring back into a 4:3 sequence and then out to tape again? Or can I change the setting on my camera (Sony PD 150) to have letterbox show up but format is 4:3?