Tim Kolb
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[Nathan Tinsley] “I am dissapointed to hear that the processing takes place after capture.”
Actually what I said was that in can sometimes take longer than the capture…it starts converting if you choose to do so, right away.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
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What sort of overlay window size are you running on your desktop?
What if you shrink the size and downgrade the quality? Does it free up resources to the card?
TimK,
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Kolb Productions, -
[Danny Winn] “When I did use Final Cut, it was so much slower than Premiere Pro with a comparable system. That was my main reason for sticking with PPro.”
Oh…I took your comment to mean the opposite actually.
My bad.
TimK,
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[Danny Winn] “You should get the Canon XH A1s (around $3.399) and worth it. It shoots full HD and is beautiful.”
When most would refer to “full HD” it would typically be referring to full raster (1920×1080), and of course the Canon looks very good, but it is still HDV in it’s on-board recorder (1440×1080 non-square pixels).
[Danny Winn] “Don’t worry about switching to Final Cut, you can do all the same things in Premiere Pro and faster.”
…except edit in HDV without converting the file wrapper and duplicating the footage, and integrate with a Photoshop doc layer-by-layer, and sub-frame audio edit on the video timeline, and link to an After Effects Comp and…
Final Cut is fine, but this IS the Adobe Premiere Pro forum.
TimK,
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The conversion process does sometimes take some time…you would capture HDV on the fly, which would be written to your harddrive, then the conversion process works on it simultaneously. The speed is dependent on your computer of course. If the software needs more time, it will simply continue processing after the capture is complete.
With current systems, this process isn’t very taxing.
The CineForm codec does run on a computer processor more efficiently than a long GOP format does.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
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The right settings to do what exactly?
Where do you need to start and end?
TimK,
Director, Consultant
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Have you ever taken a small area and let it preview render and then play that range back?
You won’t get full framerate playback while it’s using the CPU to render in most cases.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions, -
Undo works well…
If they’ve been there for a while, sometimes it’s easiest to just delete one part and untrim the adjacent clip to fill the empty space.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions, -
Maybe for someone starting out, this book would be helpful.
Honestly I wouldn’t still be doing this after 20+ years if i didn’t understand that the objective is to solve the client’s problem.
I’ve turned down plenty of projects where the client wanted my service to solve his/her problem and it wasn’t going to…they needed something else.
Sales 101 says sell benefits not features. The customer doesn’t care what you’ve put into it, they only want to know what they’ll get out of it.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
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[Patricia Shanks] “The only problem is … how to make the entire process hands free. Perhaps a stylus between the teeth? Go ahead. Go ahead. Tell me I’m onto something.”
Hmmm… you could get rid of that useless airbag in the steering wheel and replace it with a trackball.
…keep your hands off it in a sharp turn of course or you’ll be pulling in clips from the trashcan.
On second thought, maybe a Wacom tablet with a base that fits snugly into a cupholder would be the ticket…although where would I keep my cheeseburger?
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,