Steve Freebairn
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You shouldn’t have an issue with both on the same computer. Both BlackMagic Design and AJA have cards that work on both, so you should have a problem with a card from either company.
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Ok, here is what I’m looking at. If I edit a multicam sequence I’d like to be able to use the project manager to trim a project after I’ve finished and got it picture locked. The problem is that the project manager thinks I need to keep all the video because Premiere doesn’t have a way to “collapse” the edits (basically commit them like FCP does). Is there a way to work around this? Also, do you know if the project manager will let you trim HDV projects in the future?
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I can’t find what you’re talking about, can you post a direct link?
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There is a page I saw yesterday at adobe.com that said that premiere could address up to 3gb of ram on a 64bit system.
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One thing that has worked for me in the past is to Select all of your offline clips and then right click and link media. It should work better than having to do each one individually.
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Just so you know, My personal preference is for Intel Core Duos if you get a P965 motherboard (I just finished building a system for my parents so it is fresh on my mind) then it should be able to use a Quad Core Processor when they are more affordable next year. Also, you should be able to find a 7600 gt for about the same price as a 512 7600 gs. Or even a 7800gt isn’t that much more. It will be really nice when Adobe takes advantage of the 8800 series of cards with their CUDA (C language ability) feature. They will also be releasing an 8600 sooner than later. Anyway, I’d go with a Core 2 duo with a P965 motherboard if I were you.
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I’m running 4 160gb in a raid 5 on the intel raid controler that you mentioned. They are hitachi drives that are sata II. The setup will write at about 40 mb/sec (which isn’t great at all), but it reads at 160mb/sec (which is really good compared to a single drive). I’d use perpendicular drives do to their increased performance. It is worth it to use raid 5 if you care about having a really “safe” place to put your data. I have a raid 0 setup that I use for capturing and for other high speed writing needs. Then I just transfer it to the raid 5 if it merits it.
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Tim, are you shooting with an HVX? What new projects are you working on? Are you going to be teaching anymore film classes?
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Buy an HVX200 now, do a few projects get it paid off, when you need something better, then rent that “other camera”, the amazing thing about the hvx200 is that it does so many things and is relatively cheap for what it can do. It won’t beat out 2/3 inch cameras, but that would be silly to expect it to beat them out. It is frustrating not to have the perfect option right now, but in 2-3 years, we’ll probably all laugh at the quality that we had to deal with coming out of the varicam and the cinealta.
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The best H.264 footage that you’ll see is on apple’s website. All the HD movie trailers are compressed with h.264. also, for a comparison, go to mainconcept.com and look at their encoding program. They have a bunch of pictures of quality differences. In one of your posts, you mention transfer time, are you referring to on a P2 store or in a computer? because Panasonic doesn’t really control the cardbus controllers of the world. The p2 card is futureproof for transfer speeds. When cardbus slots can transfer at 640mbit/sec then I’m sure that the cards will transfer faster.