[Tony Gil]

thanx a million. i will be working most of the time with no effects on the timeline. editing documentaries. your feedback (along will all the others) has been invaluable in helping me make my decision.

i’d appreciate one final clarification: am i correct in supposing that rendering for file output (“final” encoding) will NOT be affected by CUDA (i.e. MPE only works for display rendering)?

thanx a G,
Tony Gil

[Tony Gil]

Thanks for the input! Tony Gil

[Tony Gil]

i have never found a project where i had to (as in HAD TO) save 25+ minute video files. even in long takes, it usually makes more sense to split and splice. big files are clumsy and, especially if you are going to edit them later, very very VERY bad for your workflow.

take the time to decouper (as in french for cut up) your material and name it properly. the time you invest in this initial stage will be paid back 20-fold: you will get to know your material better, you will force yourself to work in an orderly fashion, you will examine and precut all your footage in that beautiful organ you have placed above your mouth and beneath your baseball cap (aka The Brain), so on and so forth.

when you look at the timeline, the clipnames will help you understand the cut. when you look at your bin, you will know how many times (if at all) you used that specific scene. as opposed to 38 references to clip 000001.mov

and, in 10 years time, when you go back, you will love yourself (or whomsoever took the time to properly precut and name all the footage) for having all of the names meaning something (jack falls from tree is much clearer than 45 minutes of clip 000001.mov).

this isnt a workaround, it\s just a safe method for editing and organization which will avoid that uou (and your software) run into this type of problem.

why are you losing your time with minidv footage for anyway? i hope that it is historical material and that you are not shooting minidv in this day and age, otherwise i guess you deserve to have this type of problem. LOL

oh yeah, and, if you arent going to use FCP, and have opted for the CS5 suite, why not just save lots of money and use a PC? you really shouldnt be happy with your machines. or should i say with YOUR CHOICE of hardware – software combo?

[Tony Gil]

i have been experiencing the same situation. when i open the mov file in premiere, it takes 15 minutes to conform audio. while it is conforming audio, premiere is unresponsive (as is AE7). once it is done, though, everything is back to normal.

one workaround, albeit NOT a solution, is to import into premiere, wait for conformation to occur (look at your bottom right-hand corner for conformation progress) and then export the movie.

you could also use any number of tools to do this conversion. please remember that converting from one container to another (mov to avi, for example) implies in significant video quality degradation!

i am currently verifying if the problem is not with video, but with audio sample rates. the file i am opening is 32000 kHz and the standard for dv is 48000 kHz.