[Scott Rucci]

Obviously personal preference, comfort level, compatibility with the industry, client comfort, etc are all big factors. But I think Premiere is, on average, equal to FCP, there is no sacrifice there. Premiere has come a long long way from years ago, and in some ways its workflow is faster than FCP. I doubt in your situation switching NLEs is a good option, but I hate to see people treat PPro as something greatly inferior. It’s a Robust solution particularly if you edit on your own and don’t need to interface with other edit facilities. Just my 2c. (Nothing against FCP, we use both, they’re both great systems).

Scott Rucci
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[Scott Rucci]

What is the best way to monitor when 64 bit versions are released? I am specifically interested in updating reflector. What will the version number of the upcoming release be?

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Rucci Productions
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[Scott Rucci]

Thanks for your input. I appreciate it. Hope they fix the dissolve bug.

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Rucci Productions
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[Scott Rucci]

Thanks for your help, the workaround works. This brought up a couple of other issues if you have a minute.

When I pasted the Premiere clips into AE it created individual comps for each clip then put the comps into my existing comp (it precomped every clip). I thought when I’d done this in the past it just brought over the footage, without making a bunch of precomps. Do you know what’s going on there?

Also you alluded to only using the CS4 workflow now and not copying and pasting as in CS3. I don’t find that to work very well for me. It’s great the first time, I do a dynamic link>new after effects comp and it moves my timeline over. But then if I make adjustments in Premiere (it’s much better suited to timing and audio work), copying and pasting seems to be the only practical way to add those changes back into the AE comp. I don’t want to import the Premiere sequence into after effects because I’m working on individual layers. Is there a more efficient work flow that what I’m doing?

Thanks again.

Scott Rucci
Rucci Productions
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[Scott Rucci]

I’ve had the same problem, but my situation is a little different as I’m using a Matrox Axio LE card. On my old XP/32bit CS3 system, muticam was real time and worked great. I never tried it without the Matrox card. Now with Vista64/CS4 it’s unusable with the Matrox card, won’t even play, freezes up, crashes. In a non-matrox sequence (a standard Premiere sequence) it runs, but the video only catches up about every 20 frames or so. In effect I’m more or less cutting blind. I think this is very similar to what you’re describing. I’m cutting together 3 cameras, HDV footage. I’d be interested to see if you get some help with this.

Production Premium CS4, Premiere 4.1
Vista Ultimate 64 SP1
Matrox Axio LE
Matrox utilities 4.1
20GB RAM
2 @ Intel Xeon quadcore 2.33GHz
NVidia GEforce 8800

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Rucci Productions
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[Scott Rucci]

Thanks for that, I’m give it a try.

Do you think this will be a big improvement over simply combining the exposures, as both require defining layer masks? It seems like HDR is supposed get you these results without that.

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Rucci Productions
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[Scott Rucci]

Thanks for that. Actually, Soundbooth will work alright for what I need to do for individual clips. What would be nice to bring into Audition is the whole timeline so you can do you mixing and processing all in one place with quick and easy to see displays and lots of nice tools conveniently arranged. This is like bringing a group of video clips into AE. All the timing comes across and many of the Premiere effects. You do the AE work and then replace your Premiere clips with a dynamically linked AE comp. Nice workflow, but it seems it’s not going to happen with audio.

Scott Rucci
Rucci Productions
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[Scott Rucci]

I don’t think having them on the same system changes anything, does it? If it does, I’ll see if I can get it on both systems.

Scott Rucci
Rucci Productions
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[Scott Rucci]

Alright, thanks. Dynamic link is great, speeds up workflow. Oh, well, thanks for your advice.

Scott Rucci
Rucci Productions
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[Scott Rucci]

The media cache drive is NTSF. The media raid is CDFS, it’s a raid 0 (striped) internal. How else would the drives cause a bottleneck? I’ve got 4GB of RAM, but being a 32 bit windows system, I’m not sure how much of that can actually be accessed.

Drives should not be fragmented much, I keep them defragged regularly, but the media raid is running low on space, working on making more now. But I think this problem existed when I had as much as 150-200GB free.

I often leave After Effects open while rendering the Premiere timeline. It may be my imagination, but it seems like if might crash less with both open if that makes any sense. I could be wrong about that. The Premier timeline has a ton of After Effects comps on it.

It would be great to have some light shed on the situation.

System specs:
Win XP SP2
CS3 Production Premium (Premiere v3.1.0(374)
Intel Xeon Quad-Core E5345 2.33GHz 1333MHz 8MB CPU
Kingston (4x1GB) DDR2-667 PC-5400 ECC Registered Memory
C drive (media cache currently) Western Digital 160GB SATA II 7200rpm 8MB Hard Drive
Media raid Western Digital (4x250GB) SATA II 7200rpm 8MB Video Storage Drive, Raid 0 Internal
Graphics card PNY nVidia GeForce 8800GTX 768MB DDR3 2DVI/HDTV PCI-Express Video Card
Video capture Matrox Axio LE

Scott Rucci
Rucci Productions
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