[Tim Kolb]

what else is on the machine?

Panda Antivirus is an example of an app which will not let PPro run…

I run PPro on Win XP and Vista so Windows 7 isn’t the only OS that runs it, that much is certain.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Tim Kolb]

[Chuck Bolland] “While I’m sure I’m overlooking something here, Quicktime or not, I’m getting tired of CS4 turning some well lit and focused video into something less than that.”

If QuickTime Pro is doing an independent conversion and having a problem when the original file looks fine….how is that CS4’s problem?

What are the video settings before and after transcode?

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Tim Kolb]

They added the capability to change lenses and took away the rear-most eyepiece from the EX-1 and put an eyepiece over the LCD panel…

Some of the controls are configured a bit differently as well, but yes…they’re the same core imaging system.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Tim Kolb]

[Ramy Elkays] ”
Portable recording devices like the nanoFlash do record with some form of compression. The best for this device is called “Master Quality” and allows I-Frame Only : 160 Mbps 4:2:2 I-Frame Full-Raster; 1.24 GB/Min. Otherwise, it’s mainly Long GOP recording. So, there’s no such a thing called “uncompressed HD”…”

I suspect the highest quality image quality on that device would be long-GOP 4:2:2 100 Mbps. 160 Mbps I-frame actually loses some efficiency due to being completely I-frame. Long-GOP is not a cause for quality loss in itself…in comparable circumstances most codec guys will tell you that combining temporal compression with spatial compression can increase efficiency by more than 2x.

As far as uncompressed HD…sure there is. Uncompressed HD is just what it sounds like. Uncompressed high definition footage…it isn’t even that rare. It huge and occupies a fairly massive data rate and is used in high end applications all the time. Acquiring uncompressed digital HD was only possible when Philips VooDoo D6 equipment was around…and even then, it wasn’t really ‘portable.’

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Tim Kolb]

The Premiere publishing market got pretty crowded after PPro v1. I wrote a book for version 1 and then there were ten authors writing for v2 and I decided to bow out. If anything there’s been a surplus of material out there for PPro.

You could check out Class On Demand for training as well. I have training for the CS4 suite as well as PPro. There have been multiple reviews around the web, and I think Digital Juice is running a special right now.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Tim Kolb]

Give us a little more info.

QuickTime version?

Matrox product?

Have you tried to export with non Matrox project settings?

If you need to get something done right this moment, I’d export the video as some sort of high quality AVI file and buy QuickTime Pro for 29.95 USD and convert that way.

I’ve done QT export from CS4…I’ve not tried every possible output, but I’ve had no issue so far…

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Tim Kolb]

The Matrox card accelerates the effects that come with the Matrox card inside PPro and gives you video in/out ports…

The other two cards are of course, Open GL cards.

The GTX series are gamer cards and the Quadro series are the pro cards. The Quadro cards are configured more for pro use…DisplayPort for utilizing 10 bit color and newer Open GL versions are standard on Quadro cards…not to mention that many plugins (Magic Bullet comes to mind) are real-time preview on my Quadro cards…

Open GL is most significant for After Effects Previews and for Photoshop as of CS4. PPro has a few effects that utilize Open GL. While using those effects illustrate how powerful Open GL is…Ppro benefits most from a beefy display card in just making the UI very responsive.

The only difference between the 4800 and the CX was the inclusion of the encoder, as you pointed out.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Tim Kolb]

In the media encoder in the audio tab, you should have the option to switch the audio to multiplexed.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Tim Kolb]

Hmmm…

I edit EXcam all day on laptops…your system should have the juice to do it. I’d suspect if you opened an Adobe EX project (no Matrox), it would work fine.

You could try to interpret the file as an accepted framerate (switch the 30p to 25p) in the project if the content isn’t sensitive to a speed change.

Dunno why Matrox accepts the formats they accept. I suppose trying to crank out everything in real time demands you draw the line somewhere…

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Tim Kolb]

[Alan Lloyd] “I said import the layers independently. PPro will “flatten” a .psd file otherwise.”

You can also import the PSD as a sequence. You don’t need to use the sequence if you don’t want to, but it does get all the layers in in one step and keeps them separate.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,