Steve Brame
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It’s got a few issues that would probably cause problems with editing.
1 – Max RAM – 16GB
2 – Single 5400rpm Hard Drive
3 – USB 2.0 only ( I’m amazed that this is even still implemented).
4 – Relatively low powered and unsupported GPU – AMD Radeon R7 M270. The M260 version IS supported, so the 270 will probably work.
The lack of output ports of any type other than USB 2.0 all but eliminates the ability to add a external media drive or RAID, and there is no mention of a 2nd HD bay inside.
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There is no way to simply put your VIDEO_TS folder onto a USB stick and have it play as a DVD.
No way.
True Autorun has been disabled by default since Windows XP. Instead you are presented with a list of option of what to do with the files on the drive. If you were to place your video on the USB stick, encoded to a common format, such as MP4, the Autorun dialog will give you the option to play the video file(s) with whatever players you may have installed. This only works for individual video files, and menus aren’t possible.
The only success we ever had, and it was VERY good success, is to use Autorun Menu Maker. It’s now called ‘Autorun Max’ from Indigo Rose Software.
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Steve Brame
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A ridiculously simple technique, and free…
First install ‘Subtitle Edit’, easily found with a Google search. It’s a free subtitle editor that has some nice features.
Then…
Create your subtitles in Subtitle Edit, or import almost any subtitle file that you have already created.
Save as ‘FCP XML + images’ (use PNG’s for image format). Each subtitle will be created as a single PNG graphic. Save these in a folder next to your project’s media.
Import the resulting XML into Premiere. After you import the XML, Premiere will try to find the PNG’s refereenced in it. You may have to locate the first PNG, since they all will probably be showing as offline, but once you’ve shown Premiere where the first one is, it should locate the rest automatically.
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Steve Brame
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Have you tried scaling and positioning each clip to fit the way you want, then save those Motion Effects as presets that you can just drag onto subsequent clips that you place on the respective layers?
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Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions -
We use both brands – a BlackMagic Design Intensity Shuttle (USB3), a BMD Intensity(internal PCI card), and a Matrox MXO2 mini. The Matrox is attached to our editing machine in the studio, while we use the BMD Intensity Shuttle on a laptop for live webcasting. We used to lug a desktop around for webcasts with the BMD Intensity onboard, but after extensive testing found out that the laptop/Shuttle setup works as well, and sure is lighter.
As you stated, the Blackmagic Intensity Shuttle is very picky with chipsets, and it’s not supposed to play well with our laptop’s, but we’ve done 4+ hour live streaming of an HDMI feed without a single hiccup. Got it on eBay used too, so it was really inexpensive.
Happy with both – so I guess that really doesn’t help you. I do think that if I had to have only one, I’d go with Matrox if my budget was amenable.
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“98% of all computer issues can be solved by simply pressing ‘F1’.”
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions -
Check out VideoCopilot’s Twitch plugin.
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“98% of all computer issues can be solved by simply pressing ‘F1’.”
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions -
Have to agree with Shane. I discovered it recently, when I was rapid scrubbing a timeline with AVCHD clips. The scrub was very spotty, as if Premiere was only able to decode evry few frames or so. Did a test with the same clips transcoded to Avid DNxHD, and the scrubbing was smooth as silk.
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“98% of all computer issues can be solved by simply pressing ‘F1’.”
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions -
We’ve been asking this very question ever since the advent of tapeless media. The only thing that we’d been able to come up with is to separate media into a logical folder structure, keeping camera media intact but in folders named for however we need to identify the files. That was until we decided that we needed to once again start transcoding to an intermediate on ingest with Prelude, which gives us the option to rename the files in a more logical way automatically.
Of course the first method, as you point out, leaves you with many identically named files in a project. this doesn’t seem to be avoidable, but at least the later versions of CC make determining which 0001.mts file a clip is supposed to point to.
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“98% of all computer issues can be solved by simply pressing ‘F1’.”
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions -
Not familiar with Sure Target, but I just started using this rig, and it’s quite lovely.
https://aescripts.com/malty-simple-camera-rig/
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“98% of all computer issues can be solved by simply pressing ‘F1’.”
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions -
Just curious…how did Premiere’s “pitiful interface” contribute to this problem?
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“98% of all computer issues can be solved by simply pressing ‘F1’.”
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions