Hey I'm a newbie filmmaking. I have some questions. First off, I have a NV-MX500 3CCD Camera, and use Premiere Pro 7.0 on a 2.2ghz, 512meg ram laptop. When I playback captured footage in the window in premiere its usually pretty smooth, but as soon as I add even a simple special effect, like split screen for example, the playback gets jolted and bumpy. Is there anyway to fix this? Will it appear this way when I've completed the project and want to view the finished film outside of Premiere?
Also when capturing footage from Premiere, it converts to .avi but the space that each clip takes up is huge. Like 1 hour is 13gigs or something. I mean how can I work with that? 13 gigs wont even fit onto a DVD so what am I to do to show people and stuff. How can I convert it to a better format.
Thanks alot
Andy
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I haven't used Premiere Pro, but from what I've heard, you really need at least a 3GHz CPU for decent realtime effects work... and even then it won't always keep up. Is there still an option to render effects? That may solve your problem since it only has to be done once, not every tiem you play the video on the timeline.
As for space, DV footage _is_ 13GB per hour. That's how much space it takes on the tape, and that's how much space it takes on your hard drive. For a DVD you edit the movie and then export it in MPEG2 format which has a much higher compression ratio.
will it work too, if i'm copying to a VCD? since i don't have a DVD-burner. How long can a VCD hold, and a DVD in terms of the length of the film. thanks
andy
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VCD uses MPEG-1 at half DV resolution, and the usual capacity is about 55 minutes, I think. I'm not sure how far you can get away from the standard and still have it play on DVD or VCD players.
Alternatively, if it's only going to be played on a PC you can use DIVX for video compression and MP3 for audio compression and get a decent quality at full DV resolution and about the same length.
VCD's are about the same resolution as a high quality vcr tape, generally speaking 1 cd holds about 75-80 min of video. Basically 1 min of video for 1 megabyte. Check out www.vcdhelp.com for all the details on vcd and dvd formats.
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Wow. What a help. This was the perfect thread for me to walk into, for I was wondering the exact same thing.
I'm going to go to that link here shortly (which i thank you for) but while I'm typing, I'll ask this question.
Can you record a VCD on any CD recorder? and what CD's do you use?
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A likely cause of your problem is that your laptop isn't up to the task. Processor speed and RAM will have some effect on the laptop's ability to edit, but a whole lot of other factors will come into play to, such as hard drive speed, bus speed, motherboard chipset etc.
Further the advice in the FAQ, the bottom line on laptops and editing is:
Unless the manufacturer specifically says the laptop is suitable for video editing, it probably isn't.
See the FAQ for more information.
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