Simon Nuchtern
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I’ve been with Adobe Premiere since nearly the start, upgraded to CS2, then 3 and discovering what great improvements they make on each upgrade, went to CS4 immediately it was available (have my order in for CS5 already…) Found that CS4 has much better tools than 3 and – if you can afford it, highly recommend it. The Media Encoder (that works in the background as you continue editing)is wonderful, and the amount of codecs you can import into projects is as complete as I’ve ever seen. Well worth the price (and the time it will save you). Just check that the machine you are installing it into has all the necessary capacity to run it efficiently.
Best of luck!
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Not too sure if this works on CS3 – I’m on CS4 but had to transfer from a Canon HG10 (similar codec) – used the USB to transfer the Video files into a folder in the video hard drive – opened a project with the video codec the Canon uses and then – using the Media Encoder converted the clips to Matrox AVI (I’m on a PC with Matrox board) but you can go to a Microsoft AVI if that suits your needs.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks Vince – I keep the editing system very clean – only CS4 and the minimum of apps (QT, VLC, WM, Flash viewer). The Windows update does not download automatically but has to be triggered to update – but I will examine more closely. I have the AVG anti-virus and internet protection and although it scans on my command – it could be that AVG is doing something behind the scenes I’m not aware of. Thanks for the tip!
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My experience with my newly upgraded CS4 to Vista 64 is that any .mov files left in a project tend to make the project crash and the Export Server crash when trying to go to Media Encoder. My workaround to get this problem temporarily resolved is to back up the project – remove all the .mov files from it and work on it with just avi files and other MS friendly files (mwv, Flash, etc.) This may be just a problem with CS4 or Vista 64. Maybe Windows 7 will resolve it. A colleague made me a moving BG for IDs on his AE on FCP – sent it as a .mov file and a large project I am working on immediately started crashing. He then brought me the elements and rebuilt the BG on my system’s AE and the system stopped crashing. So, for the moment – .mov files are banned from any of my projects. Not a fix but a temporary relief. Wonder if any other editors on CS4 and Vista 64 have experienced the same problems?
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Is the media you are importing into your CS4 .mov files? What operating system are you operating the CS4 suite with?
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Thanks to both of you – Tim and Vince. It worked!
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That is an interesting idea. i will look at HELP on CSd4 – was not aware that one could import one project into another. If indeed all the elements come with it – that certainly will be the solution.
Thanks for the tip. I will post when after I try this.
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Thanks Vince. I came out of edit* and I remember there was a tool there were one could import parts of one project into another but I guess Adobe has not progressed to that point yet – maybe CS5…?
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The problem is that I was given a DVD (4:3) to prepare the subs – and I made a project using the standard DV project option and after the client checked the work he sent me a Digibeta in 16:9 to do the final output. As I cannot convert the 4:3 project to “widescreen” I believe the best option is to bring the Digi into a Widescreen project and be able to import the subtitles I created for the DVD 4:3 copy and then only have to adjust the vertical position.
Or is there a better way to handle this?
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Thank you. I will implement this from this point.
Appreciate your taking the time to explain.
Simon