can I use Premiere with my g450 etv???

[sticksnstones]

... i have the g450etv and really want to use it with my premiere 6.0.

I am capturing uncompressed straight from my Betacam deck in composite...
I have a 1.4 gig processor and 256 ddr ram. My motherboard is an asus.

I am able to capture in Premiere...Once captured , i drag the new video into the source window.it seems to play back fine. However, when I drag it onto the timeline, it doesn't playback smoothly at all !!!.... I can hear the cpu stalling as it 'seems' to try to cathc up..Do I not have enough ram ???

Also,
Does anyone have the proper project settings that I should be using..from the proper codec to the playback settings (I seem to have too many choices !


signed ..

desperate and frustrated !

[dsp]

sticksnstones,

About your problem, I don't think you can "hear" a CPU as it makes no noise, I'd most likely place the blame for stuttering playback on the hard drives. I'd suggest just render the video to file in a compressed codec and see if it plays smoothly, if it does then don't worry about the video stuttering as it would likely be the hard drive and not dropped frames.

dsp

[Sciascia]

Make sure that you are using the Matrox HW MJPEG codec for your project. If not, then you are recompressing it to play it back. Second thing is to check to see if you have the Premiere ini file configured correctly. There are 2 lines that you may have to enter.

Try these in the Prem60.ini:

[codec]
keepopen=dmb1

[Override]
NoDirectShow=1

This may help, but be forewarned that Premiere and Matrox do not get along very well unless you have the RT2000 series. The majority of us have fought and lost this battle and ended up much happier with Ulead Media Studio Pro.

[sticksnstones]

which compression ?

hi,
thanks for your suggestion....

How do I 'render' to a file" as opposed to "saving as" to another file... And what compression should I be using?...

thanks again for your time...

Ron

[Rob100]

Sciascia,

He has a G450etv, not a Marvel so what hardware MJPEG!?

Rob.

[Sciascia]

DOHHHH, my bad. Well, once again good intention, bad advice. G450eTV, have no idea. All SW compression right? MPEG???? Forget it I'm tired and have no idea. I am right about the rerendering part though, just don't know what to suggest.

[dsp]

Ron,

I meant Export to File, just to see that its hasn't dropped any frames on capture that affect it. As for compressor, anything that doesn't continually read from the hard drive is good, like DivX, MJPEG. By the way what resolution are you capturing in? And what hard drive are you using for both capture and premiere's video previews?

To speed up Premiere it has been suggested in these forums to lower the amount of undo levels in Premiere.

Hope I haven't confused you (as I did to myself )

dsp

[droopy]

@Ron

Hi yah. I've been using Premiere now ever since version 4.0. What you've noticed on stuttering at playback from the timeline is pretty much normal for Premiere. Especially when you use higher resolutions like PAL704*576 or maybe even 720*576. Or if you're using NTSC, 704*480. I didn't care about it at all as the thing which counted was the endresult and that so far has always been good. Audio sync has also never been a problem for me as you can hear it when going through the time frame step by step. Apart from that the stuttering as I encountered so far was never delayed in time like e.g. you get when using VirtualDub in combination with HuffYUV.

I've never investigated much as to why, but most likely culprits would indeed be the earlier mentioned HD speed, but definitely also the CPU speed. Additionally for speed in Premiere it is recommended to have your scratch disks on another but the bootdrive. Remember that since Premiere is a all in one package it is a high load for the resources on your computer. I think Media Studio Pro has a definite advantage there as it is, correct me if I'm wrong, 4 or 5 separate programs. One for each task.

With regard to the memory. Like all Adobe programs, Premiere is indeed memory hungry. The more memory you have, the more the program can do in memory and the faster it is. More then 512Mb on a 98se system is of no use though.

Myself, I now use a XP2000 in me main editing PC and still see some stuttering. Same is true for a friend of mine using a P4-2.2Ghz. I'd guess the best way to solve this is with HW editing cards. This also means big money though.

On the capturing part. I've never done that with Premiere. To be honest I think premiere stinks in that department. I can wholehartedly, and probably most on this forum, recommend a program called AVI-IO. It's worth it's weight in gold and can do segmented capture without loosing frames. This should allow you to capture without time limit on a faster FAT32 partition. If you've invested in Premiere, the little money for AVI-IO shouldn't hurt your wallet that much.

As a last, rendering your timeline. It's explained in your manual, but here it goes. Activate the timeline by clicking on it and then from the filemenu select "Export>Movie". In the appearing menu make the appropriate settings and export your movie to a file. It's here where you also select the appropriate codec to be used. For playback I would say select a MJPEG codec like Picvideo. If you have the time and intend to make (S)VCD's go straigh to MPEG1/2 using a program called TMPGEnc through frameserving. For all details on that, check out http://www.vcdhelp.com

Well, its become a long story again. I hope it is of help though.

Regards, Leon

[sticksnstones]

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SWorryfolks, I'm brand new to this forum thing....If I simply want to reply to a specific response when I receive several responses to my inquiry, how do I do that without responding to all ?...


thanks again !
Ron