Vince Becquiot
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With 30000 rendered clips, I can see some issues on the horizon. That’s t when you usually would want to plan your project split in several smaller projects, which I do already on half that size
I think this will get better once we see support for quad-core CPUs. But, I think you will find by asking in other forums that no software based NLE will handle that type of project smoothly without dedicated hardware, such as in AVID Media Composer. I use Avid Xpress on a regular basis, and I can see its limits coming pretty quickly as well.
Vince
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I think, what you mean is, a large number or “rendered” cips. I have never had any problems with large (I do mean large) numbers of unrendered clips. I think it is partly understandable due to the amount of work that had to be done in the background just to handle a simple cut on rendered footage without having to re-render several minutes around that cut (It’s the way it used to be in previous versions). In my case, it just causes short freezes, and yes it is annoying, but I no longer render as I go since premiere can give a fairly seamless playback without rendering.
BTW, a crash is probably due to another issue. I have yet to see PP2 crash on my main machine, and I push its limits pretty far sometimes, but again, that’s the only thing installed on that machine and probably the way it should be…
Vince
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Sure looks like they are gone to me. You’ ll have to export uncompressed and get a copy of Real media encoder.
To honest, I think you’ll get better results anyway, and will have many more options at your disposal.
Vince
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When creating a new project, choose custom , “Desktop” editing mode, and change the frame size to 320×240.
Anything else is forcing Premiere to upscale the footage, then downscale again at export time, and will result in the quality loss you described.
Vince
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The most likely reason is that it’s clipping. Check your levels and make sure that they don’t go in the red. Peaks around -6db is probably the safe way to go, then the use of the “Dynamics” plugin to compress the overall range.
Vince
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Green screen keying is harder to do with DV, but definitely not impossible. I have pulled some very good DV keys in the past.
As you said, the most important parts are going to take place during your shoot, a nice flat diffused screen lighting, and as far away as possible from the screen. You can also help cancel some of the spill with an amber gel on your back light (Like a Rosco # 2)
In general, if you had access to AE with Keylight, I would highly recommend it over Premiere, especially with DV, but I can’t speak of DV Matte since I have never used it.
As far as capture goes, if your footage is still on a DVCAM tape, just capture it through firewire as you mentioned.
Vince
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I guess there is also the possibility that you are sending the audio to firewire. That wouldn’t be a default behavior however.
Vince
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They may lose some colors, but shouldn’t lose quality if you are exporting uncompressed.
Vince
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Have you tried resetting your preferences ? (Hold Shift+Ctrl while starting Premiere).
Vince
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In my experience, the only time you would want to export to DV, is if your original “DV” video was unaltered, where the only thing you did during edit was cuts. Any added graphic, color correction, transitions, etc. will require Premiere to recompress the frames where the video was affected.
Vince