http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Videomaker Community Forums » Tag: adobe - Recent Posts en Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:41:27 +0000 http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/amateur-to-amateur-advice#post-74672 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:22:06 +0000 michael9 74672@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hi</p> <p>Thanks, great to find such a clear delivery of info.</p> <p>Cheers</p> <p>Michael</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/laptop-for-gaming-and-video-editing#post-72807 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:57:54 +0000 Shawn Lam 72807@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Thanks @composite1.  I don't see any problems with using a gaming laptop for editing on Premiere Pro CS5.5, other than the potential to wear-out your laptop quicker and if your operating system drive is cluttered.  <strong>If you are editing on a laptop with a single hard drive then you will want to be using an external hard drive or RAID solution</strong> anyways and you can always just take your external storage solution over to your desktop to complete the project.</p> <p>Now let's be careful with the term "workstation class video card".  Adobe and NVIDIA certified four gaming class desktop graphics cards, in addition to several Quadro cards.  Most reviewers only review the Quadro cards and justify that the NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards are often "manufactured" by third parties.  I think the term "manufactured" is used loosely too as NVIDIA makes the GPU and the third party assembles but I'm not too concerned about a gaming video card not having the same durability.  Gamers push their video cards and systems to the limits for sustained periods of time and as long as you stick with a reputable third-party manufacturer, you should be fine.  But if your card does fail, the cost of the original and a replacement will still be less than the cost of buying a Quafro card.</p> <p>The funny thing about trying to find a "workstation" class laptop with a Quadro card is that it is very difficult.  There are very few available off the shelf and if you wanted one you would have to custom order it, wait longer, and pay double or more than you would with a gaming class system.</p> <p>And then there is the discussion on performance.  <strong>Adobe and NVIDIA would have you think that Quadro cards outperform GeForce cards, but the opposite is true.</strong>  </p> <p>Have a look as the results from the <a title="Premiere Pro Benchmark" href="http://www.ppbm5.com/DB-PPBM5-2.php">PPBM5</a> and you will see that of the top 100 systems, only six have Quadro cards and the top performing system with a Quadro card only made it to position #32.</p> <p>In my <a title="Vancouver Videographer" href="http://www.shawnlam.ca/">Vancouver Video Production Company</a>, I mainly use desktop computers with gaming class graphics cards (from the certified list) for editing but I do run Premiere Pro on a laptop for when I am on the road.  As I mentioned previously, it only has an NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M card, which is not on the list, but I unlocked it and it improves both quality and render time.  </p> <p>Here are some test results to show how important GPU is for encoding time:<br /><strong>1920x1080 60i AVCHD footage - 32 seconds (no effects)*</strong></p> <p>Export to 720 30P H.264 1 pass VBR<br /><strong>CPU only with max render quality:  2m47s<br />CPU only with no max render quality:  1m04s*<br />GPU with max render quality: 0m43s</strong></p> <p>*note1:  Adding effects would only exaggerate the time gap between GPU and CPU times.<br />*note2:  I don't recommend CPU with no max render quality but provided it for illustration purposes.  GPU acceleration automatically enables a higher quality encode and GPU with Max Render Quality ensures that video with effects that are not GPU accelerated still are rendered at Max Render Quality.  In this case there is not time difference between the two GPU options as there are no effects.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/laptop-for-gaming-and-video-editing#post-72783 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:30:17 +0000 composite1 72783@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Cristo,</p> <p>I concur with Shawn's advice. I would not recommend having a laptop for gaming and editing. The requirements for both are different. Used to be gaming GPU's were a great alternative for video editing. Now, Premiere has changed the game and it's all about 'workstation-class' video cards. To take advantage of the Mercury Playback Engine, you'll need an NVIDIA workstation rated card which as Shawn mentioned is listed on the Adobe Premiere Pro system requirements page.</p> <p>Editing requires many more computer resources and requires regular maintenance. You want to keep your maindrive clutter-free as possible to cut down on data log jams when editing. Games take up massive data resources especially if you're an online gamer. Also, gaming will wear your laptop out sooner than will editing. Besides, if something happens to your maindrive because of a gaming malfunction there's the potential of the laptop losing the capacity to edit. That would suck if you had a project in pocket and decided to take a break to play LOTR with your bro's online and some bug gassed your harddrive.</p> <p>Food for thought.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/laptop-for-gaming-and-video-editing#post-72779 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:47:05 +0000 Shawn Lam 72779@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>The CPU is good but you definitely want a laptop with an NVIDIA video card.  The reason is that you can take advantage of GPU acceleration, that improves rendering speed AND render quality!</p> <p>My blog post explains that part:</p> <p><a title="Adobe Premiere CS5.5 review" href="http://www.shawnlam.ca/2011/adobe-cs5-5-max-render-quality-nvidia-gpu-acceleration/">Vancouver Video Production Blog:  Adobe CS5.5 Max Render Quality and GPU Acceleration.</a></p> <p>Now not just any NVIDIA card will automatically unlock the GPU acceleration but if your card is fast enough then it is very easy to unlock this functionality.</p> <p>There is a link in the comment section of this blog post discussing how to easily unlock the GPU acceleration.  BTW, In my laptop I have a 360M card.</p> <p><a title="Vancouver Videographer Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 Review" href="http://www.shawnlam.ca/2011/adobe-premiere-pro-cs5-5-review-by-shawn-lam/">Vancouver Videographer - Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 review</a></p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/laptop-for-gaming-and-video-editing#post-72454 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:29:36 +0000 Christo Kj 72454@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Is this<br /> laptop good enough for Premiere Pro CS 5.5?</p> <p>About the<br /> laptop:</p> <p> </p> <p>INTEL Core i7-2760QM firekjernet prosessor, 2.4GHz,<br /> 6MB SmartCache</p> <p>8GB DDR3 SO-DIMM 1333MHz (2x4GB)</p> <p>AMD Radeon HD<br /> 6990M 2GB GDDR5</p> <p>&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"&gt;<br /> &lt;tbody&gt;<br /> &lt;tr&gt;<br /> &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;<br /> &lt;td width="100%"&gt;</p> <p>500GB<br /> SATA 7200RPM</p> <p>&lt;/td&gt;<br /> &lt;/tr&gt;<br /> &lt;/tbody&gt;<br /> &lt;/table&gt;</p> <p> </p> <p>&lt;table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"&gt;<br /> &lt;tbody&gt;<br /> &lt;tr&gt;<br /> &lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;<br /> &lt;td width="100%"&gt;</p> <p>I know that Adobe is workin with nvidia but I don't<br /> have the money for nvidia 580M. So<br /> how is AMD 6990M  with Premier pro?</p> <p>&lt;/td&gt;<br /> &lt;/tr&gt;<br /> &lt;/tbody&gt;<br /> &lt;/table&gt;</p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/editing-in-adobe-premiere-cs4#post-72427 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 06:27:59 +0000 pseudosafari 72427@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Ahhh, found it.  This is composite1's post.  The link to the video is in there, showing the editing with the GPU accelleration.</p> <p><a href="http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/sneak-peek-at-mercury-playback-engine#post-56406">http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/sneak-peek-at-mercury-playback-engine#post-56406</a></p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/editing-in-adobe-premiere-cs4#post-72425 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 05:49:05 +0000 pseudosafari 72425@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Yep.  You should be able to just drag them into the timeline.  The resolutions are different, of course, but I still stretch them to fill the screen most of the time and it looks okay in the end.  The only issue is whether you have the right codec to decompress the footage and get Premiere Pro to recognize it in the first place.  If you can open the DV footage in Premiere Pro at all, you should be able to mix and match all you want.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/editing-in-adobe-premiere-cs4#post-72423 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:53:00 +0000 G 72423@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Is it possible to edit DV and AVCHD simultaneously within the same project in Adobe Premiere CS4?  I understand that it is two different resolutions, but is it possible?</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/green-screen-set-up-outside#post-71928 Sat, 29 Oct 2011 10:44:48 +0000 Jacob Wayne Bondesen 71928@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Thank you Don</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/green-screen-set-up-outside#post-71907 Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:11:03 +0000 Don 71907@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I have rolls of white seemless paper... try it with what you have there are tutorials and articles here at video maker on lighting the greenscreen...</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/green-screen-set-up-outside#post-71906 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:29:52 +0000 Jacob Wayne Bondesen 71906@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I understand, I guess I was thinking in terms of green only because I have a green screen. So maybe white bed sheet behind the subject? Sorry I think in terms of cost as well.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/green-screen-set-up-outside#post-71903 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:29:49 +0000 Don 71903@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I find shooting on white rather than green is easier to light and works fine in photoshop....  </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/green-screen-set-up-outside#post-71901 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:25:09 +0000 Jacob Wayne Bondesen 71901@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hello all, I have a question about some green screen work I am about to start in a couple weeks. </p> <p>Basically we went out and shot a group of water skiers behind a boat out on the lake and an office wants me to Photoshop all of their partners into the photo (replacing the skiers) and in a pyramid scheme. I have a green screen/lights set up that I use for film but this specific job is photography (with the Canon T2i). </p> <p>I'm confident in the project even with its ridiculousness considered however I can't decide on one thing: should I do this green screen set up outside (to match the light of the original photo) or should I go ahead and light it well inside and match the original in Adobe Photoshop? I've never had problems doing that but I've seen this office's other "office photos" and they look flawless with Photoshop and everything. Thanks in advance if you can push me towards the most efficient way.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/50-off-adobe-creative-suite-55-production-premium#post-71849 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:07:39 +0000 Kevin Monahan 71849@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>The deal ends on Oct. 31, so be sure that you get Production Premium with the SWITCH discount before then. More info here: http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/switch.html</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/50-off-adobe-creative-suite-55-production-premium#post-71768 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:07:37 +0000 Alpha_Leader 71768@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I also have been using Sony Vegas Pro. Just installed Sony VP 11 to try it out and have been working with the trial of Adobe Premier Pro CS5.5. hmmmmmm. Decisions. Decisions.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/adobe-cs-5#post-71575 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:39:03 +0000 michael9 71575@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I've recently purchased the CS5.5 Master Collection. May take a few years to read the instructions for the full gamut of programs! I find Adobe TV helpful.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/adobe-cs-5#post-71571 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:26:05 +0000 shastabroadcaster 71571@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Sounds Good to Me!  Especially for those who feel like they've been abandoned by Apple.  I come from an audio background and have been using Audition for years and was glad to see it incorporated in the suite, Soundbooth was just too limited.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/adobe-cs-5#post-71556 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:59:57 +0000 Julie Babcock 71556@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>For those interested, we've created a <a href="http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/forum/adobe-creative-suite">new forum</a> for questions and comments pertaining to Adobe CS5 and CS5.5. </p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/adobe-cs-5#post-71551 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:42:56 +0000 Kenkyusha 71551@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>&nbsp;I'm also a CS5 user.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/adobe-cs-5#post-71549 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 04:28:31 +0000 robGRAUERT 71549@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I plan on purchasing CS5.5 at the end of the month and wouldn't mind a discussion, even if all I'm doing is reading what others have to say</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/adobe-cs-5#post-71540 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:25:00 +0000 MediaFish 71540@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>We use Premiere Production CS5.5 at Media Fish Productions.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/adobe-cs-5#post-71536 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:06:51 +0000 Charles Schultz 71536@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I went from CS3, CS4, and now CS5.5 so if you have any questions I am more than willing to help. I really don't think you will have too much of a problem figuring out the work flow. I can tell you that the dynamic linking is way better in CS5.5 and should not be ignored.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/adobe-cs-5#post-71535 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:44:13 +0000 pseudosafari 71535@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>i use CS5.5, and i'm a VM+ member</p> <p>i upgraded from CS4 and didn't find it too daunting--though I've never used CS3 so I can't say how much of a leap that'd be.</p> <p>even without a special category you can always post questions and stuff.  good luck.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/adobe-cs-5#post-71527 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:45:22 +0000 dannyboy123 71527@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> do we have enough VM+ members to initiate and sustain discussion on using CS5.5 (or CS5)? I'm just updating from CS3 and will be muddling around for a while i'm sure, so it might be nice to have some folks to interact with. thanks.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-cheap-can-legit-adobe-cs55-copies-be#post-70375 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:41:12 +0000 cyorkgo 70375@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I purchased some "cheap" music programs like that before. They are working programs but "cracked" and most have viruses. I would highly recommend you stay away from these type of programs. Adobe has several options available to purchase their products at discounts. I took some classes at UCLA and qualified for their student package and saved hundreds of dollars. Years later I "upgraded". Good luck.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-cheap-can-legit-adobe-cs55-copies-be#post-70358 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:08:48 +0000 chamberlane altatis 70358@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Oh yeah, sorry for that. Too bad I didn't see it immediately :)</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-cheap-can-legit-adobe-cs55-copies-be#post-70351 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 11:21:05 +0000 Charles Schultz 70351@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>@chamerlane altatis, Your prices are legit but what Chris asked about was the Master Collection for between $40 and $100. You are selling only one program, not the whole ball of wax. Not to stomp, just to clarify.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-cheap-can-legit-adobe-cs55-copies-be#post-70349 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 06:50:04 +0000 chamberlane altatis 70349@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Alright then. By the way, I changed my affiliate code to Commission Junction. It's a bit more expensive but it offers more option of buying <a href="http://adobepremiereprocs5.com/adobe-premiere-pro-cs5-5">Premiere CS5.5</a> like buying it in <a href="http://adobepremiereprocs5.com/adobe-premiere-pro-cs5-5">full, or yearly and monthly subscription</a>. </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-cheap-can-legit-adobe-cs55-copies-be#post-70345 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 19:40:35 +0000 chrisColorado 70345@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Thanks for the input, I did decide not to buy. As for Cham's question, you have a cheap price, but it's in the believable range I guess. Also, you are selling only premiere. I was looking at the Master Collection, so big difference.</p> <p>Thanks everyone!</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/how-cheap-can-legit-adobe-cs55-copies-be#post-70263 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 21:28:53 +0000 chamberlane altatis 70263@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hmmm... I'm currently an affiliate of Amazon and I got the link from them so I'm selling a Premiere CS5.5 in $419.95. So is this not legit?</p> <p>Cham</p> <p> </p>