communist
20th September 2006, 06:51
Until now I've been only working with DV(CAM) stuff on Premiere Pro. The plan is to migrate to HDV (Sony Z1, XLR's are connectors are a must). Now I've been reading all kind of confusing info over the net from people who dont really seem to have a clue about HDV (the usual question 'can my current DV capable machine capture HDV at all? Is the disk fast enough?' :P).
I plan to do all the recordings in HDV (to use it again once HDTV has really took off). Then use downconvert over 1394 feature and would be just editing a SD DV stream (output / delivery is going to be SD DV on MiniDV).
Questions:
1) Is the real-time downconvert feature from the cam good or is it better to get the HDV material and work with this - do the resizing and encoding to DV with Avisynth?
1a) And if I captured the HDV material what CPU speed would I need in combination with Premiere Pro 2 to edit it easily. Mostly cuts/dissolves - no huge color adjustments (PPro is just awfully slow on this - and thats with SD). I need to do this all on a laptop so would a Turion X2 with 1.6Ghz or Core 2 Duo with 1.8Ghz (nothing faster due to budget limits) do the trick or should I scrap the idea of easily editing HDV material at all?
2) And last but not least, If I go with the downconvert function can I just turn of the downconvert function on the cam and use Premiere's batch recapture at HD (edit DV, assemble HDV once finished) or is it going to throw error messages at me?
Thanks for any help :)
I plan to do all the recordings in HDV (to use it again once HDTV has really took off). Then use downconvert over 1394 feature and would be just editing a SD DV stream (output / delivery is going to be SD DV on MiniDV).
Questions:
1) Is the real-time downconvert feature from the cam good or is it better to get the HDV material and work with this - do the resizing and encoding to DV with Avisynth?
1a) And if I captured the HDV material what CPU speed would I need in combination with Premiere Pro 2 to edit it easily. Mostly cuts/dissolves - no huge color adjustments (PPro is just awfully slow on this - and thats with SD). I need to do this all on a laptop so would a Turion X2 with 1.6Ghz or Core 2 Duo with 1.8Ghz (nothing faster due to budget limits) do the trick or should I scrap the idea of easily editing HDV material at all?
2) And last but not least, If I go with the downconvert function can I just turn of the downconvert function on the cam and use Premiere's batch recapture at HD (edit DV, assemble HDV once finished) or is it going to throw error messages at me?
Thanks for any help :)