[Tcindie]

Adobe recommends at the minimum, a dual Xeon 2.8GHz machine for HD.. The 2.8Ghz chip is going for about $210 each over at new egg..

You might also consider going with a dual dualcore machine. You can get 2.0GHz dual core opterons for about $280 each (also on new egg).. pair up a couple of those on a mobo, and you’ll be running what is effectively an 8.0GHz Machine (as opposed to the 5.6GHz with two Xeons)

Then pack 4gig of dual channel memory in there, a nice high end video card (I use the GeForce 7800GT), and throw in some massive SATA drives and you should be good to go for many years of editing, standard def or high def.

[Tcindie]

Ok, can you tell I haven’t had my coffee yet?

But honestly, is the $100 for surcode really too much, when you’d be able to get results usable by everyone, rather than hoping people would have a new enough standalone to handle some weird microsoft format? (There’s really no guarantee there either, since they stray from the standard so much)

[Tcindie]

You can use Surcode.. it’s about $100, and there’s a trial version available. Surcode does AC3, DTS, and MLP lossless.. there’s a premiere pro plugin available too. 🙂

[Tcindie]

Jack,

The link you provided is not accurate.. it points to a time lapse of a woman getting larger during pregnancy.

Any way, I was going to suggest checking out the new Premiere Pro podcast that creative cow is offering. The first episode of the series talks about multicam editing.

https://www.creativecow.net/appodcast/

[Tcindie]

Personally I would use a nice quality RAID for the storage, and would use either firewire (tcpip works over firewire) or fibre channel.

[Tcindie]

I built mine at the beginning of the year. Spent roughly $1500 on it, it’s a dual-core AMD processor, each of its two cores running at 2.4GHz. 2G dual-channel ram, and a GeForce 7800GT (I could add a second video card and use the SLI link to speed things up even more)

Running all SATA drives presently, and this thing pretty well cooks on Standard Def footage. Haven’t played with HDV at all, but even if I use the magic bullet look suite, I can preview at full quality in real time without rendering. Renders are roughly real time if I have look-suite in play, otherwise typically I can render at least double real time. I’ve been very happy with this system thus far, as I don’t deal with HD (yet) it should last me at least most of the way through next year without any other upgrades, aside from perhaps more drive space at some point.. though I’ve got a 250GB sata specifically to use as a capture/scratch drive. So I’m not really hurting by any stretch of the imagination for drive space, but I am getting a second 250GB sata drive in trade from a friend later this week. 🙂

[Tcindie]

I’ve had similar problems when I was trying to work with some dv footage that had been captured on a mac.

The way I worked around it was to export from quicktime to a different format. It’s been a while so I don’t remember the exact codec specifics I used..

[Tcindie]

Having just used the razor tool to slice up a clip does not create subclips…

From the Premiere Pro 2.0 Help System:

To create a subclip
You can create a subclip from source clips or other subclips that are made up of a single media file. You cannot create subclips from sequences, but you can create subclips from titles and stills.
Open a source clip in the Source Monitor. Open the clip from the Project panel; you can

[Tcindie]

Was it captured in Premiere? My first thought would be that there might be a glitch in the file, due to a buggy capture or something. I’ve never experienced snow in any captures I’ve made, I always capture with Premiere…

Is it the kind of snow you get on a TV when it’s tuned to a bad channel, or is it more like frame drop out glitches that you get with a bad dv tape/camera?

[Tcindie]

You can do that with your clip and crop effects you’re already using..

In clip, set the fill color to white, or whatever border color you’re looking to use, then adjust each side you want a border on to be a little bit higher value than the crop value for each side.

For example:

Clip:
Left 22
Top 2
Right 2
Bottom 2
Color (White)

Crop:
Left 21.6
Top 1.6
Right 1.6
Bottom 1.6
(Zoom unchecked)

That gives a very thin white border around the whole clip, and it’s essentially just slightly cropped on the left. Then the motion can be used and doesn’t affect your border at all. 🙂