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Videomaker Community Forums » Tag: premiere - Recent Posts http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Videomaker Community Forums » Tag: premiere - Recent Posts en Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:01:12 +0000 michael9 on "Amateur to Amateur Advice...." 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/ Hi Thanks, great to find such a clear delivery of info. Cheers Michael Shawn Lam on "Laptop for gaming and video editing" 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/ 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. 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 anyways and you can always just take your external storage solution over to your desktop to complete the project. 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. 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. And then there is the discussion on performance. Adobe and NVIDIA would have you think that Quadro cards outperform GeForce cards, but the opposite is true. 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. 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. Here are some test results to show how important GPU is for encoding time: 1920x1080 60i AVCHD footage - 32 seconds (no effects)* Export to 720 30P H.264 1 pass VBR CPU only with max render quality: 2m47s CPU only with no max render quality: 1m04s* GPU with max render quality: 0m43s *note1: Adding effects would only exaggerate the time gap between GPU and CPU times. *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. composite1 on "Laptop for gaming and video editing" 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/ Cristo, 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. 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. Food for thought. Shawn Lam on "Laptop for gaming and video editing" 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/ 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! My blog post explains that part: <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> 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. 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. <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> Christo Kj on "Laptop for gaming and video editing" 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/ Is this laptop good enough for Premiere Pro CS 5.5? About the laptop: INTEL Core i7-2760QM firekjernet prosessor, 2.4GHz, 6MB SmartCache 8GB DDR3 SO-DIMM 1333MHz (2x4GB) AMD Radeon HD 6990M 2GB GDDR5 <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td></td> <td width="100%"> 500GB SATA 7200RPM </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td></td> <td width="100%"> I know that Adobe is workin with nvidia but I don't have the money for nvidia 580M. So how is AMD 6990M with Premier pro? </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> pseudosafari on "Editing in Adobe Premiere CS4" 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/ Ahhh, found it. This is composite1's post. The link to the video is in there, showing the editing with the GPU accelleration. <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> pseudosafari on "Editing in Adobe Premiere CS4" 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/ 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. G on "Editing in Adobe Premiere CS4" 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/ 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? Bill Dillon on "Premiere Elements editing question" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/premiere-elements-editing-question#post-72143 Sun, 06 Nov 2011 11:30:42 +0000 Bill Dillon 72143@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/  That did it.  Thanks a bunch.  I knew I could trust someone to lead me in the right direction.  This group is great with a capital G.   EarlC on "Premiere Elements editing question" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/premiere-elements-editing-question#post-72141 Sun, 06 Nov 2011 10:28:49 +0000 EarlC 72141@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Bill, I have Elements 8 but I don't use it at all, I use Final Cut Pro. But, in a search on Google, <a href="http://forums.adobe.com/thread/557610?tstart=0">I found this Adobe Link</a> where someone addressed the question. I'll look a bit more and post other links if I find any. Here's another link to <a href="http://muvipix.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=257">Chuck Engels' blog on Muvipix.com</a> focused on your question. Hope this helps. Did my Google search with the phrase "merging projects with elements 8" F.Y.I. Bill Dillon on "Premiere Elements editing question" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/premiere-elements-editing-question#post-72138 Sun, 06 Nov 2011 09:19:06 +0000 Bill Dillon 72138@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/  I have a question regarding Adobe Premiere Elements 8, not the Pro version. I've looked everywhere I can think to answer this and have come up blank. Say I have three or more saved projects (like baseballgame1, baseballgame2 and baseballgame3).  Is there a way I can join them in one time line so I can add start and end point and save them to DVD as a longer movie with tabs on the opening screen for the DVD?  You could click the game1 tab to watch baseballgame1, click game2 tab to watch baseballgame2, etc.  The underlying question is how to you combine projects to a larger project? Thank you pseudosafari on "OK to mix HD and SD?" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/ok-to-mix-hd-and-sd#post-71642 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:50:19 +0000 pseudosafari 71642@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ I mix all the time, too. I mix HD with footage from outdoor trail cameras. When done correctly it gives the videos what I like to call "flavor." You can put them full screen with an explanation so the audience understands the different quality. You can put them PIP so they're small and don't pixelate out. Sometimes I mask the HD video and implant the smaller SD video in it, depending on the effect I'm looking for. grinner on "OK to mix HD and SD?" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/ok-to-mix-hd-and-sd#post-71631 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 10:09:36 +0000 grinner 71631@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ I mix em all the time. Never been a problem/big deal. Charles Schultz on "OK to mix HD and SD?" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/ok-to-mix-hd-and-sd#post-71628 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 06:52:04 +0000 Charles Schultz 71628@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ You can create an SD video from the HD just make sure that you capture the HD video so that everything is in the safe portion for SD and it should come out fine. Bill Dillon on "OK to mix HD and SD?" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/ok-to-mix-hd-and-sd#post-71625 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 02:54:25 +0000 Bill Dillon 71625@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/  Thanks for the input.  The reason I asked is my wife is going on a hot air balloon ride in a couple weeks.  She'll shoot some SD footage from the balloon and I was going to shoot HD footage from the ground.  After hearing the comments, I think I'll shoot SD footage instead.  Thanks again. EarlC on "OK to mix HD and SD?" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/ok-to-mix-hd-and-sd#post-71618 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:21:53 +0000 EarlC 71618@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Primarily Bill, the outcome will be how you instruct your NLE and how your NLE will handle mixing standard definition and high definition resources. When using a program that easily handles both it would be equally easy for an inexperienced editor to wind up with something that looks and plays horribly due to unplanned application of 4:3 aspect (640x480 pixels) ratio and 16x9 widescreen with its assortment of (and the gamut of HD-rated resolutions from 1,280x720 pixels (720p) to 1,920x1,080 pixels (1080i/1080p) for starters). That unplanned outcome could come out looking radically unattractive. And, when applying the range of SD vs HD, high definition has a bounty of recording formats from HDCAM & variants, to DVCPro HD, AVC, XD HD, AVCHD, HDV and others ... you can wind up with a convoluted mess if you haphazardly mix any or all of these ... NOT SAYING this is your intent or the scope of your question, but still. Then, of course, there's the fact that a person can also shoot some type of widescreen with some SD model camcorders, and the resulting playback from all these elements might not work well on the end user's system, which might, or not, have up-res capabilities. Blah, blah, blah ... So, the answer is technically, yes you can (I know nothing about your Premiere Elements 8 or its capabilities for this) but the echo is do you REALLY WANT to do this? Like commercial productions that use old footage, amateur footage, mixed quality to represent footage shot with crappy security cameras, up and down the quality scale in an effort to represent these various elements in the storytelling process, a planned approach might work for mixing these, or dirtying up resource footage to represent one or more types, including SD & HD. So, to goof around, practice and explore the boundaries, there's nothing that says you cannot, and many have in fact done so. But when doing something "serious" or commercial, you might want to establish your reasons for mixing the two an be sure you can make it WORK together the way you intended. birdcat on "OK to mix HD and SD?" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/ok-to-mix-hd-and-sd#post-71617 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:14:24 +0000 birdcat 71617@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Different aspect ratios - 16 X 9 vs. 4 X 3 - You're gonna have to crop or letterbox Different resolution - 1920 X 1080 vs. 720 X 480 - You're gonna lose data moving down or lose clarity (and probably add pixelization) moving up. That said, I have done this with acceptable results. Bill Dillon on "OK to mix HD and SD?" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/ok-to-mix-hd-and-sd#post-71616 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:29:30 +0000 Bill Dillon 71616@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/  What would the consequences be? doublehamm on "OK to mix HD and SD?" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/ok-to-mix-hd-and-sd#post-71613 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:20:37 +0000 doublehamm 71613@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ No rules against it, so long as you understand the consequences. Bill Dillon on "OK to mix HD and SD?" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/ok-to-mix-hd-and-sd#post-71612 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:10:35 +0000 Bill Dillon 71612@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/  I haven't tried this but is it OK, technically, to mix HD and SD?  I'm using Premiere Elements 8 for editing? composite1 on "Outsourcing Video Editing" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/outsourcing-video-editing#post-69462 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 09:58:57 +0000 composite1 69462@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Outsourcing comes into play as a viable option when your incoming workload outweighs your output capacity. Only large studios and production houses find benefits in outsourcing. When your outfit is small, like Grinner mentioned it is much more profitable to do the work in-house and not parse potential profits with other businesses. If that's the case, it would be a lot cheaper to contract individual editors and pay them a one-time fee. But again, that's not necessary if you're managing your incoming workload. Nice try at pitching for business though. Next time, do your research. Most of the Demographic for VMM are amateur hobbyists to single-owner production specialists. It is unlikely that you would find anyone here who was ready, willing or able to ship their post-production workload off-shore to India or anywhere else. birdcat on "Outsourcing Video Editing" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/outsourcing-video-editing#post-69461 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 07:53:11 +0000 birdcat 69461@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ I can only speak to the IT aspect of off-shoring with expertise, but I would not think video production would be much different. Outsourcing to India is not the most cost effective option any longer. 1) There are enormous overheads since most projects need full time project management dedicated to the project plus large chunks of phone time. 2) Many projects have to be done over, some multiple times due to barely qualified staff (the cheapest that can be found). 3) Language is often an issue - I'm sure we've all seen the ad where "Peggy" is talking. 4) Other third world countries are undercutting India and even India is off-shoring some of their work. 5) The quality of what I've seen coming back is mixed - sometimes it's stellar, others it's absolute garbage. These have been my experience - I would think an intern from a film school for about $10/hour would give you better results but I personally don't outsource and see no reason to start. grinner on "Outsourcing Video Editing" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/outsourcing-video-editing#post-69457 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 06:34:55 +0000 grinner 69457@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ It's a waste of time to edit stuff myself? But it's made me millions over the years? You're saying I'd be better off splitting profits with you? doublehamm on "Outsourcing Video Editing" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/outsourcing-video-editing#post-69450 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:35:25 +0000 doublehamm 69450@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ I have seen a site like this - they spam my email all the time trying to get me to use their services as it will "save me time". For just weddings I don't think it is worth it - but if you had a ton of camera work, it might be worth it. On the other hand, how does your client feel about you sending off their footage to another unknown person? Rajesh Patwardhan on "Outsourcing Video Editing" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/outsourcing-video-editing#post-69449 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:31:40 +0000 Rajesh Patwardhan 69449@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Hi all, I am Raj from India. most of the wedding videography companies are small scale, generally owned by single person, of course there are a few exceptions. Its is waste of time to edit and finalize all footage by yourself. I currently handle editing part of wedding videos of some of my friends ( they became my friends after we started working together ) from Canada and UK. It helps them to get rid of headache of post and can concentrate more on getting more contracts or marketing. As editing costs less in India than any other country, it saves money and time too. Rick Ashworth on "Video card recommendations for CS5.5" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/video-card-recommendations-for-cs55#post-68685 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:01:11 +0000 Rick Ashworth 68685@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Question: Â I'm getting ready for my initial install of Premiere Pro CS5.5. Â I have never used anything by anybody previously (very noob), and my question to the knowledgeable masses: Â What's the best "bang for your buck" video card to work with PC/Win7Pro64 and Premiere Pro CS5.5? Â I read the docs where it specifies a 1GB "frame buffer.." Is that the same as a card advertised as a IGB DDRx, or is a frame buffer a "percentage" of the available video RAM? My Win7 computer has an "onboard" 256M video card, so I want to get something that will not cause problems down the road. Â I don't want to spend $700, but I don't want the BARE minimum card either. Any thoughts/suggestions appreciated! RonEmser on "Suggested workflow for Sony SR68 to Corel VideoStudio Pro X3" http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/suggested-workflow-for-sony-sr68-to-corel-videostudio-pro-x3#post-65469 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 03:42:29 +0000 RonEmser 65469@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ I have a Sony SR68 and Sony has their proprietary mp2 fuiles. Any shortcuts to getting this to Corel's VideoStudio X3 or even Premiere? composite1 on "Amateur to Amateur Advice...." http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/amateur-to-amateur-advice#post-63978 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 10:11:03 +0000 composite1 63978@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Luis, Yup that's straight 'Guerrilla' brother! One way to cut down on heat on set is to use Compact Flash Bulbs instead of Halogens and Flood lights. CF Bulbs come in comparable wattages of 100, 150 and 300. You'll have to double to quadruple up on bulbs to achieve a certain wattage level (i.e. 600w = 6 100w, 4 150w or 2 300w) but, they're much cheaper and don't kick out anywhere near the heat. You can also get them in Daylight and Indoor (Tungsten equivalent). Be advised CF bulbs are 'off color temperature' from traditional bulbs. Indoor bulbs rate at around 2700K and Daylights rate at 6500K so make sure to do a good manual white balance and adjust your exposures accordingly. Halogens are best used outdoors for shooting. Indoors they do present a potential fire risk. SargeHero on "Amateur to Amateur Advice...." http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/amateur-to-amateur-advice#post-63975 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 07:54:45 +0000 SargeHero 63975@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Nice video Wolfgang. My greenscreen set have guerrilla written all over it, but it works great. Although the set temperature rise like 5 degrees, I turn the lights off from time to time and I put a fan in the side for a more "pleasant" experience. For chroma keying I prefer to use After Effects because its way more powerful than Premiere and I feel more comfortable with it. Check out my greenscreen guerrilla style set, enjoy <img src="http://api.ning.com/files/rkKEupXRKlRXnKX7I0heU9pTfiEVT5Mx0WAK76tlI70B3IO-aQP37wLEXxzq54i*JVOs5vpVk3yiqNyS7TLIhtk2R10dVKl6/DSC05565.JPG?width=737&height=552" width="350" height="245" /> <img src="http://api.ning.com/files/JqrgyMHgQmnw9NoNqnnnqOoHbB6yyUcIQChl3V0dQGDR6fsB2bI1f1eJFCCrsazPpqF3uSoHRE*ZFr5yv*K0-iJBy38YPVnT/DSC05571.JPG?width=737&height=552" width="350" height="245" /> <img src="http://api.ning.com/files/wC0ZJYtbZZ7PRoJw3BLYqc3BM7qrZUyiUEjaW98OmkV6Pg5da71CjT6RWw67KGrUpgMK57RnrRX13o9aUFiwKrHr9or9r1bF/DSC05573.JPG?width=737&height=552" width="350" height="210" /> <img src="http://api.ning.com/files/QRLV2bu-SV-p3b1Syuc7nO8YqroUfCLX8cWEIB-jt71YmLCGrq9m-BWzkFCBVcW5pB760HVzxmrqpd9Tug261OdMIoHALGfO/DSC05572.JPG?width=737&height=552" width="350" height="210" /> WSanford on "Amateur to Amateur Advice...." http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/amateur-to-amateur-advice#post-63971 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 04:32:24 +0000 WSanford 63971@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ That was great.