[Steven L. gotz]

That video was not intended to be edited. Just play the DVD you created.

Or, if you feel you must, you could try copying the *.VOB files over to your hard drive, rename them to *.mpg and try it that way. You would be happier trying that in Premiere Elements, I believe. It is consumer video, not for professionals.

[Steven L. gotz]

I believe that AJA and Matrox provide their own codecs. And I have not seen any documentation showing that info on any of the new CS3 pages.

[Steven L. gotz]

It depends on which effects you apply. Exporting is disk dependent more than anything else, so how many cores is not particularly important. The effects you apply make a difference.

For example, put a fresh clip on a new sequence and apply a Gaussian Blur. Render that and see both cores in use.

Take off the blur and use a three way color corrector. Render that and see only one core in use.

My guess is that they will all be improved eventually, but how soon I would not even try to guess.

[Steven L. gotz]

Until I changed PCs recently, I had Premiere 6.0 and 6.5, Premiere Pro 1.0. 1.5.1 and 2.0 all on one PC.

[Steven L. gotz]

I would continue to edit projects in the version of software that created them. However, I have not seen problems editing earlier version projects in Premiere Pro 2.0 – but I have never tried editing 6.5 projects in Premiere Pro because they really are two different programs.

[Steven L. gotz]

https://post-holes.com/

[Steven L. gotz]

You did a great job. There was just as much truth in yours as there was in his. But yours was a lot more imaginative.

[Steven L. gotz]

You put all four clips on to video tracks 1 through 4.

Put the clip you want in the upper left on track one, upper right on track two, bottom left on track 3 and bottom right on track 4. (These are arbitrary but follow these steps first, you can change things later.) You may wish to create a video track 4 in advance, or you can just drop the clip into the gray area above track 3 and it will create track 4 for you.

Select the clip on track one. Look in the Effects panel and apply the first preset under PiPs, 25% PiPs, 25% UL – named PiP 25% UL

Select the clip on track two. Apply the first preset under PiPs, 25% PiPs, 25% UR – named PiP 25% UR
Select the clip on track three. Apply the first preset under PiPs, 25% PiPs, 25% LL – named PiP 25% LL
Select the clip on track four. Apply the first preset under PiPs, 25% PiPs, 25% LR – named PiP 25% LR

That should do the trick. After you understand how to use the standard PiPs, you can use the presets that scale in and out and spin, etc.

[Steven L. gotz]

You could run the Premiere Pro 2.0 benchmark and compare your scores to other PCs. It might show a bottleneck somewhere.

https://mysite.verizon.net/wgehrke/ppbm/

It could be that you are using stills that require you to scale them down to under 50%. That is a reasonably well known bug that causes long render times.

[Steven L. gotz]

I like using After Effects to slow down the clip in a hurry, freeze, and then quickly resume speed. The time remapping function is decent for this.