Steve Brame
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Wow! We cross-posted that, although I like your EPS solution better. I’ll give that a shot.
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I’m seeing that basing the spline on an AE Mask may work. Going to try that.
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Unfortunately, I need the little triangular piece protruding from the bottom of the rectangle, which wont seem to work in this scenario.
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I remember seeing a tutorial on the extrusion look. I’ll look for it. Thanks all!
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We’ve not experienced any sort of stability issues with it after several months. We were initially getting BSOD’s every now and then, but it seems that it was being caused by not leaving enough RAM for other applications. Once we started following this set of guidelines…
…everything has been great. Not a single blue screen in weeks.
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I used TMPGenc a long time ago when it was still more or less shareware. Might have to give it another look.
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Two big players in the Pro MPEG2 encoding field are Sorenson Squeeze and Telestream’s Episode. Neither is cheap. However, many swear by TMPGEnc, which IS cheap.
As far as Fermi cards, we use the Quadro 4000 which is Fermi based and is on the list of Mercury capable cards.
Here’s the list…
https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/performance/
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Assuming that your final output is a DVD compatible file, I’m not sure why Cineform would be needed. Cineform is normally used to transcode raw camera files into a more edit-friendly format, which may or may not be required with CS5. Your specs look as if your system should be able to handle the AVCHD footage from your camera. We have nearly the same specs except for the graphics card, and AVCHD files play realtime very easily.
Transcoding from Premiere to MPEG2 may be another issue, as I’ve read countless reports that Adobe Media Encoder doesn’t produce good quality files for this use.
Keep in mind that you will be going from seriously high quality HD files to incredibly lower quality SD files for DVD, so it’s hard to consider quality in this scenario.
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Transcoding means to change media from one format to a another. This may or may not entail compressing, depending on the formats. Compressing, by definition, means to make the resulting file size smaller. You can transcode without compressing.
A yellow bar in Premiere indicates an unrendered section that may or may not need to be rendered to achieve realtime playback…depending on your system specs.
FCP transcodes(renders) non-native media to a native format during Log and Transfer.
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions