I'm stepping up to Adobe Premiere Pro now, after years with Pinnacle Studio (various versions). I recognize the added power, but miss the ease of use. But, I'm learning my way around it and starting with a simple scene making a character on screen suddenly turn invisible.
I shot the character on screen using my Sony Handycam HD camera. Then I shot some footage of the set, without the character. In Premiere, I set it up with the character walking across the screen on Track Two. Then in Track One, I have nothing until the part where the character becomes invisible--then I have the set without the character, and at that point I turn the opacity of Track Two down to 33% or so, so you can just barely see the character. The effect looks great when rendered, but while editing, the preview in the upper right hand corner of the software starts to lag as soon as the second clip comes in. It plays fine before that. It's only a 9 second clip, so I can't imagine it's eating up too many resources.
I tried switching Track One and Two back and forth, but no difference.
Is this just the way it is in the software? If so, I guess I can live with it, but it makes it hard to edit since the movement of the "invisible" character on the screen is choppy.
I can't imagine my machine is too weak, but FYI: Intel Core 2 Quad, 2.83 GHz, 8 GB RAM DDR2, Vista 64bit Ultimate, NVIDIA Gforce GTS 250 vid card.
I guess my biggest question is, "Is it just like that and that's the way it is?" If not, what's up?
