[Sney Noorani]

yeah this worked well for me, thanks for posting.

As of July 2011, I’m running FCP 7 and importing AVCHD, had that error and until I read your post, I didn;t even realise I could click on my AVCHD source clips and alter their transcode settings.

Cheers!

[Sney Noorani]

G Drives. If money is no option. G Drives.

https://www.g-technology.com/

FYI if you click on their link from this website you get 10% off, I wish I’d realised that sooner but them’s the breaks.

Not only do G Drives do the job, but they also look good, what more could you ask for?

I’ve had shady experiences with Western Digital MyBooks, if i can’t afford G Drives, I buy Seagates. I guess I would buy a Lacie, but it’s not first choice. If you’re going to put these together yourself, I’m currently checking out Hitachi Internal drives as I’ve heard good things, and as for 3rd party enclosures, I don’t know that much.

Any HDD can go bad, but I trust Hitachi, Seagate (Maxtor incidentally are now owned by Seagate), some people really like Western Digitals, but I don’t. (Having Said that, my current machine is based off 4 internal Hitachi’s SATA, a WD SATA and a Seagate IDE). So I’ll let you know which one dies first…

[Sney Noorani]

First a correction: Quicktime DOES install under XP64, don’t know why it didn’t for me the first time? Maybe because I tried to install it with iTunes?

Secondly, Premiere Pro and AE are working great under XP64, but I’m not running any proprietary hardware (such as a Matrox Card), I’m just relying on the cpu for my horsepower, so as long as the software is working, I’m all good and flying with a stack of RAM.

I’m also trying to steer clear of Vista and jump straight to Windows 7, once it’s stable.

XP64 is making a big difference to me because Premiere was running like $%&^ under XP32 because my current project is an hour long show, shot with 5 cams in 3 x DVCPROHD/ 1x XDCAM/ 1 x Some Shitty Consumer MPEG HD Format, so it’s cumbersome to say the least. The RAM limit is making the world of difference (that and the multiple RAID’s). If you’re doing .30s then you probably don’t need to go beyond XP32. (Note I’m pretty much ignoring Vista, I heard bad things to begin with, and I’m just not going there if the next OS is on the horizon).

cheers

[Sney Noorani]

it’s good to know that Win 7 is a promising environment for CS4. I’m just setting up Preimere Pro CS4 on XP 64bit so I can take advantage of 8 GB RAM, and it runs really well with the extra RAM, but I’m running into a few snags, such as lack of Quicktime support for xp64,

on the bright side my project uses .movs minimally, but picking a video format to transcode stuff to for imtermediate purposes is baffling, i.e. if I can’t make a mov… then what can I make? I don’t like avi’s…

Luckily I can transcode my existing movs (DVCPROHD) to P2 MXF(DVCPROHD) files using the Adobe Media Encoder, and the MXF files are readable my Premiere CS4 in a xp64 environment, it’s a pain in the ass workaround, but at least it’s a workaround.

[Sney Noorani]

I’m experienceing the same problem exporting from premiere cs3.

I have HD footage scaled down to an SD frame on my timeline, and I’m double clicking on the clip to load it into the source monitor and then hitting export (to export the full res, unscaled HD plate to AE for compositing, – and before you say, ‘just import the Premiere comp into AE’, I’m using Sony XDCAM and am getting black frame artifacts from my .mp4 compressed source files making that workflow seemingly impossible.

So back to exporting hi-res masters from Premiere, the in to out says 20seconds for example, but it’ll export me the entire clip. And yes, I have gone into the settings and selected ‘in to out’ instead of ‘entire clip’, but it still doesn’t comply.

Monstrously frustrating. Apologies for typos.

[Sney Noorani]

this really sucks

firstly my preview area is only 5 secs, secondly my project is such a zoo (I’m blaming the editor…) that I have no control over what audio formats I’ve got dropped on my timeline, I just need the dang audio to preview in a timely manner without locking the existing frames forever.

when it it finally runs the preview it renders like lightning after thinking about it for forever. it’s almost as frustrating as the ‘initialising background processes’ for multiprocessing that’s just made me turn MP off on my Quad core…

Can somebody at Adobe please just make the simple things work? I’ll take that over any new features they’re dreaming up.

Let’s be clear, faster previews please, make the audio work please, and more stability thanks.

/rant ends

[Sney Noorani]

hey,

I’ve just bought an almost identical setup to what you describe,

q6600 @ 2.4 Ghz
4GB DDR2 Ram
P5Q-E Mobo
nvidia 9500 GT

which did you pick out of Vista and XP? I’m currently running XPPro 32bit, but I only just learned about 64bit versions of OS’s being able to access more than 4GB RAM, so I’m thinking of switching OS’s.

Did you ever use AE under Vista? did you ever switch to a 64bit OS? and was it worth it?

cheers

S /

[Sney Noorani]

I’ve successfully used compressor 3.02 to crunch a spot that DG Fast Channel accepted no problem. The world did not end, all was good.

it wasn’t exactly their specification, but I tweaked it so that hopefully it wouldn’t exceed their boundaries.

here are the settings I’m using:

Name: Fast Channel – MPEG-2
Description: For Sending to DG Fast Channel
File Extension: mpeg
Estimated file size: 6.75 GB/hour of source
Type: MPEG-2 program stream
Video Encoder
Format: M2V
Width: 720
Height: 480
Pixel aspect ratio: NTSC CCIR 601/DV
Crop: None
Padding: None
Frame rate: 29.97
Frame Controls: Automatically selected: Off
Start timecode from source
Aspect ratio: 4:3
Field dominance: Automatic
Average data rate: 15 (Mbps)
2 Pass VBR enabled
Maximum data rate: 18 (Mbps)
High quality
Best motion estimation
Closed GOP Size: 6, Structure: IP
Audio Encoder
Format: MPEG
Sample Rate: 48.000kHz
Channels: 2
Bits Per Sample: 16

I used the ‘IP’ structure for the GOP because I had a lot of fast motion in my spot and there was some freezing of the picture just as the spot started. Actually I think I fixed that by shaving three frames off the slate of the spot so that the ‘I’ frames would fall in different locations, and that seemed to work great…after 2 f*ing hours of experimenting with different GOP settings…

I use size 6 GOP, I figured it was alright as long as it didn’t go over Fast Channels specification of 9 GOP.

All I’m saying is that you can use the other frame structures such as IBBP, or IPPPPP or IPB or whatever, just don’t select 15 for your GOP size. 9 is greyed out, but I’m pretty sure you’re allowed to go lower, and not higher, and my spots weren’t rejected so my theory must be right?

hope this helps people 🙂

cheers

Sney /

[Sney Noorani]

you are a hero.

thanks 🙂

[Sney Noorani]

thanks for the advice folks.

right after i posted my query, my manager walked in and i showed him my issue, tried to relink some more media, and lo and behold, it all magically worked?!?! (honestly it’s not me being a muppet…)

obviously it was just waiting for him to walk into the suite…

I’ll bear in mind your suggestions though, especially regarding keeping shorter filenames.

thanks for taking the time to respond.

regards

Sney //