[Thundercross]

Hi Andreas

Yes, I’m sorry I meant to say it boasts an increase in rendering ‘speed’. That was a bad typing error.

I was very frustrated at that point in time (still am) since I upgraded my whole PC to a Core 2 Duo, now with 4 GB RAM, and my realtime playback remained poor, and the exports took roughly the same time. Exports don’t bother me that much, but my realtime playback performance was just poor, especially when you have a client viewing the edit…

Two months later and I still have no solution, there are a few other codecs but, to me +- $499 is a ridiculous price to pay for a codec, when Adobe Premiere should include a similar codec in it’s core kernal, engine, renderer, or what ever it’s called, that JUST IS MORE EFFICIENT! I mean if there are codecs out there that do all this, am I right to assume this ‘coding’ should be included with Premiere?

Anyway, I am weary of installing demos that expire, I don’t like to leave things on my system. Your codec seems to be the ideal codec, but I cannot be sure of it’s performance because I went through a lot of effort to hear from other people who may have been using it. I posted mainly on the Adobe Premiere forums and nobody seems to have used it, or just never read my posts…

I say again, the Sheer Codec seems the best solution and the price is nice.

Kind Regards

[Thundercross]

Of the same clip??

Sorry i never capture files that long, i break them up at capture stage into specific shots, thats just the way i prefer it.

[Thundercross]

Thanks Steven.

I have finally come across a demo of Mainconcept HD 2.0 for Adobe! It seems to be what Im looking for, the realtime preview is much better now and its just about in my price range.

I believe you use it too, any problems/tips I should be aware of before purchasing it??

Thanks

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I was looking at hardware ie MATROX, but its too expensive for me at this time… Please what other hardware realtime cards are their capable of working with HD in Premiere 2.0 for around $500?? I would appreciate help with this.

Thanks. P.S what software codecs do the same?

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Ok the settings for this Particular project in questions are as follows:

* Source footage was actually Digital 8 (Hi8 Video) digitaized through firewire. 4:3 (1.07 pixel aspect ratio)
* Final length was 11 minutes. 4-10 Video tracks with every single frame (all clips) having at least two filters on them, 2D motion graphics, still pictures, transitions, and lots of titles.
* PAL, 720X576, 25fps, lower fields, quality 5.0.
* 48KHz, 16 bit stereo PCM audio.
* VBR two pass, Min 7.00, Target 8.00, Max 8.50
* High profile, Main level, 3 M Frames, 12 N Frames, auto GOP placement, intra DC precision 9 bits, Multiplexer = MPEG 2 VBR.

As I say I know these settings are high, and I understand what they all mean and do, but after waiting for 2 hours for the export I found the final quality was very very good, but im sure it could have rendered quicker!??

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Thanks I will try.

But I want to know if anybody has used this particular codec before??? I don’t want to fork the cash out and find a better solution elsewhere at a better price. So has anyone used it?

Im trying to streamline my workflow in Adobe Prem 2 for HD footage shot mainly with:

1)SONY HDR-HC1
2)SONY HDR-Z1

When I mean streamline I mean FASTER realtime playback for client viewing and FASTER exporting out of the product so that it does not take two hours!

It’s unfaur to say that it takes a long because you don’t know my export settings, but still 10 mins of SD exported to a .mpg using Adobe Media Encoder set to “PAL MPEG 2 GENERIC” takes 2 hours at VBR 2 Pass Bit rate 8.0…?

Its embarrasing to sit with a client and have to render SD on my timeline nevermind HD, for a preview, while they wait… The realtime playback is on ‘draft’. Am I missing something here?

Thanks Again.