Anyone using Premiere Pro CS4?

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Tcap

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Was thinking of picking this up with student discount for 350. It claims to work with AVCHD, though Adobe is a little late to the scene.


Tonycap
 
Thomas Lew said:
what? they're the first to the scene if anything lol. Only program that can do avchd natively
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I didn't know they were first to the scene with AVCHD native editing. I always thought it was Sony Vegas and Pinnacle.. hehe excuse me for the ignorance.lol
 
No one's using CS4, because it's not released yet.

But I was a beta tester, and it works very well with HMC150 footage.
 
Tcap... CS4 will edit AVCHD natively. However, it doesn't ship until around October 29th, so I wouldn't expect too many people to have a lot of experiance with it yet.

That said, I'm on CS3, and made the jump to it from Pinnacle and haven't regretted it. You will however need a beefy quadcore machine for it to not be sluggish when editing AVCHD I'm told.

*EDIT* Oops... David posted right as I did
 
Ahhh, Ok so October 29th it is! Thanks so much. I have a quadcore Q6600 2.4ghz but may upgrade to a quad extreme cpu. I have essentially 4 GPU's with combination of 4 gigs of video ram in the 2 Ati 4870x2's i have in this system. I wonder If i need a better single video card for video editing purposes. My other option is to try a Macpro 8 core. I have a macbook pro 17 with 4 gigs of ram and dual core 2.4ghz that hasnt seen any video editing due to only using it for Protools. Might try final cut on it.

Tonycap
 
I edit on a Dual Core with Sony Vegas. Editing isn't sluggish. Of course, more muscle is always helpful when rendering out.
 
I've installed Mainconcept HD pro3 and tried editing AVCHD in premiere pro cs3, it will not play in real time and I have an AMD quadcore 2.2ghz
 
David Jimerson said:
No one's using CS4, because it's not released yet.

But I was a beta tester, and it works very well with HMC150 footage.
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Hi David,

First time poster, and I'm learning alot about the HMC 150 from these threads. Thanks to all who've posted experiences/impressions, pics and screen grabs, and footage from the camera!

I'm also curious about CS4 running AVCHD files, and CS4 being able to export those files so I can burn SD-DVDs. Anyone have experience with that?

I'm still running CS2, as I didn't feel I needed to jump to CS3 for our current workflow. This might change as we buy our first pro HD camera (currently own the HV30, but use it mostly for home movies, vacation, etc.).

Best,

--JA
 
With a fast, modern machine, I was getting real time from the AVCHD. I haven't tried to burn any DVDs with it, but I don't see why it would appreciably different from making DVDs from other types of footage.
 
I just installed it this afternoon and am fooling around with AVCHD files that Barry uploaded. I ordered my camera last week but am having second thoughts now.

So far it is very painful. I've had it crash twice and the two files I am using are just a minute or so long. Perhaps I am doing something wrong, I'm still fooling around with it.
 
Point me at the spec and I'll let you know.

It's my high end laptop which edits my DVCPRO HD P2 stuff with no problem. If editing avchd takes that much horsepower to edit a 4 second clip then by all means this is not for me.

I have not tried transcoding or converting anything, this is all just using the native avchd files in CS4.
 
It's an HP Pavillion DV9700 notebook

CPU=Intel Core2Duo, 2.5ghz
OS=Vista
Memory=4gb

I realize it's not a high end editing station, however it's been more than enough for my HVX200 P2 footage and a lot of my editing takes place in the field where I am working with clips 5 mins or less then encoding them to a web format and uploading them to a website for real-time video broadcasting. I figured since I am dealing with small and short clips it should be good enough. Not sure that was a correct assumption.

Pat
 
It's so bad I just canceled my order for the cam on BH. It's frankly, unbearable.

I am going to stick with DVCPROHD for now. Pat
 
pjlefe said:
It's an HP Pavillion DV9700 notebook

CPU=Intel Core2Duo, 2.5ghz
OS=Vista
Memory=4gb

I realize it's not a high end editing station, however it's been more than enough for my HVX200 P2 footage and a lot of my editing takes place in the field where I am working with clips 5 mins or less then encoding them to a web format and uploading them to a website for real-time video broadcasting. I figured since I am dealing with small and short clips it should be good enough. Not sure that was a correct assumption.

Pat
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Sounds a lot like the boat I'm in – editing on site, “short” clips, Vista, Duo core2 with 4 gigs of ram.


I'm not sure I understood, but are you saying that you have CS4 and you are crashing when you work with native AVCHD on your system?


I'm thinking about my next move right now and I'm wondering if I need to move up to quad core and Vista 64bit... I mean I know this should be better all the way around but if I can squeeze “livable” performance out of my current system then I would hold off on the move to 64bit Vista... If not then I'll just transcode until sometime in March and upgrade my post setup then.
 
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