[Sean David]

Edits will be 2-4 layers, mainly DV plus titles and the occasional matte. Transitions. Corporate productions.

Sean

Asus G73JH i7-720, 8GB RAM, Radeon HD5870 1GB, Win7 HP 64 bit, Adobe Production Premium CS5, Cinema4D Studio 11, and more…

[Sean David]

Capture will be through firewire on a powerful editing station. Footage will be on external HDD fed via USB2. I currently do this on my Asus G73 and it works fine. If we get certain compressed HD video sources, then things get slow unless they are moved to an internal HDD.

Sean

Asus G73JH i7-720, 8GB RAM, Radeon HD5870 1GB, Win7 HP 64 bit, Adobe Production Premium CS5, Cinema4D Studio 11, and more…

[Sean David]

Footage will be mainly SD DV. Timeline is usually DV for eventual DVD creation, 720 x 480 or 720 x 576 depending on the project.

Sean

Asus G73JH i7-720, 8GB RAM, Radeon HD5870 1GB, Win7 HP 64 bit, Adobe Production Premium CS5, Cinema4D Studio 11, and more…

[Sean David]

Ok, that helps. Can a nested clip be put in a ‘bin’? I’m going to have to look up more on nesting, I heard about it but haven’t tried yet.

My concern is not so much for myself but others who are working on the same set of projects with the same source material and will likely be slowed down by all the individual files.

As for lossless, I made a 15GB Lagarith file at 1280×720 for a 15-minute segment as a test. It seems identical in quality but if I can do this without multiplying assets, then all the better.

I have used Lagarith a lot, as it is lossless and PPro reads it fine, as does VirtualDub and most of my 3D apps for rendering. It is still large files, but not the performance hit that some other codecs cause.

Sean

Asus G73JH i7-720, 8GB RAM, Radeon HD5870 1GB, Win7 HP 64 bit, Adobe Production Premium CS5, Cinema4D Studio 11, and more…

[Sean David]

Thanks for this. Now a work flow question. I have the P2 card contents and nearly 200 MXF files. I would like to combine them into about 5 longer files by topic as another video file. I don’t mind if it is MXF, AVI or MOV or whatever but it should be very close to a lossless conversion as I want it to be my new source file.

The footage is from an HPX300 shot in 720/23.98pN in Intra-100. I’ve found the right timeline (PPro CS5) and created the separate timelines I need, so if I take it to export/encoder, what settings would you suggest to end up with a file that I can use as a source?

Sean

Asus G73JH i7-720, 8GB RAM, Radeon HD5870 1GB, Win7 HP 64 bit, Adobe Production Premium CS5, Cinema4D Studio 11, and more…

[Sean David]

I use PPro CS5 regularly with the HD5870 on my Asus G73jh laptop, no problems, no unexpected delays. Sure, it doesn’t support the mercury playback thing, but that has not been a problem for me. I’d be very surprised if your rig didn’t do just fine.

Sean

Asus G73JH i7-720, 8GB RAM, Radeon HD5870 1GB, Win7 HP 64 bit, Adobe Production Premium CS5, Cinema4D Studio 11, and more…

[Sean David]

Well, I don’t know which brand to suggest there but I can tell you that my i7 920 Quad Core with 1GB Nvidia 275 runs relatively smoothly. PC’s are constantly updating so this may be older but I would no consider anything less than a Quad Core, Win7 64 bit and 8 or more GB RAM. Premiere Pro uses certain Nvidia graphics cards for special higher speed ‘mercury’ processing and AE may do the same. The cards are listed on their site. I don’t have one, but you can ask around on how the difference in performance is with one. Have fun.

Sean

Asus G73JH i7-720, 8GB RAM, Radeon HD5870 1GB, Win7 HP 64 bit, Adobe Production Premium CS5, Cinema4D Studio 11, and more…

[Sean David]

My hope was to continue to create the clips and update/color correct them in Premiere Pro because that is what I am used to doing before I moved up to the Production Premium suite. However, I see that Premiere and AE share filters in many cases.

What I did was create a new sequence, place the clip I wanted on the timeline and do whatever I wanted to it. Then copy the sequence from the Ppro bin into the AE bin and everything goes with it. The only thing I could not achieve is a dynamic link between the two, any changes made in PPro after the copy/paste do not reflect in the AE project.

However, I can use the color and other effects in AE to do what I need and I see that I can edit the length of the clip there too. Not quite as nice with e.g. the slip tool in PPro etc. but workable. If I am missing anything, let me know.

Sean

Asus G73JH i7-720, 8GB RAM, Radeon HD5870 1GB, Win7 HP 64 bit, Adobe Production Premium CS5, Cinema4D Studio 11, and more…

[Sean David]

I’m using an Asus G73JH-X3 for Premiere Pro editing, and some simple AE work so far. I must say it has been a pleasure so far. Some more system updates would be nice but it is relatively new. The two potential drawbacks are the fact that it won’t support the new ‘mercury’ Adobe thing (not missed it that I know of yet) and no firewire ports, so you need to use one of the extra 320/500GB internal drives for real-time editing of HDV and other heavy bandwidth media, USB2 handles SD DV AVI etc. just fine on an external however.

Sean

Asus G73JH i7-720, 8GB RAM, Radeon HD5870 1GB, Win7 HP 64 bit, Adobe Production Premium CS5, Cinema4D Studio 11, and more…

[Sean David]

I work with PAL and convert to NTSC, it isn’t too hard.

Size is simple, you will just crop/lose the extra pixels off top and bottom to get from 576 to 480. Width is the same.

You can do the conversion several ways:

-use the method proposed by the previous post regarding going straight to DVD with it, not sure of that myself but sounds good if it works for you

-adjust the frame rate only, essentially map frames from 25 to 29.97 or 30 e.g. in VirtualDub or similar, or re-interpret it in Premiere. Your length will change (will get faster) and you will have to deal with audio length changes separately, including pitch, etc.

-convert the footage using a high-quality conversion tool, I have used DVAtlantis quite successfully, read their settings and test it on a small clip first and compare at full size. If I have access to the original project, I take titling and text that tends to convert less cleanly out and convert just the video portions, then drop the titles back over the timeline before going to DVD.

If you get stuck, reply.

Sean

Asus G73JH i7-720, 8GB RAM, Radeon HD5870 1GB, Win7 HP 64 bit, Adobe Production Premium CS5, Cinema4D Studio 11, and more…