Editing in Premiere CS5 - Looks horrible

richke

richke

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So I did a test run real quick with my new HMC40 and my old GS300. Loved the fact I could copy and paste the data from the cam to the HDD whereas the old camera I had to capture the footage. TImESAVER in the future.

But when I was looking at the 1080 footage in premeire it looks horrible. It seemed to render ok(I didn't have any lighting setup besides house lights) so it was a little grainy but I expected that. But in Premeire like blocks were appearing in the footage when played. If the footage was paused it looked fine. I have playback set to 100% and Full Quality. Any ideas?

I have a Quad core PC with 4 GB of RAM - Win7 64.

And holy crap I have got a lot of reading to do...I do not know what half of what this new cam can do!

Thanks,
Rich
 
Hahahaha!!!! It's funny what your brain comes up on it's own when typing. I set up the project with my old Widescreen MiniDV settings instead of picking the 1080i(60) or whatever.

Figured it out...you are all awesome! :)
 
I guess I have another question though. I took some quick pictures of something I am selling on Ebay and they look grainy at 100%. IS it because this does not have a flash on it so without good lighting it does not look good? I have checked the settings on the cam and they are all at the highest settings.

I'm guessing it is the lighting but just want to make sure.
 
richke said:
I guess I have another question though. I took some quick pictures of something I am selling on Ebay and they look grainy at 100%. IS it because this does not have a flash on it so without good lighting it does not look good? I have checked the settings on the cam and they are all at the highest settings.

I'm guessing it is the lighting but just want to make sure.
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Though the HMC40 is a fine video camera, it is a poor stills camera. Good light will help, and you'll get some that computer display O.K., but at 100% you'll be unhappy.
 
richke said:
But if you take a still from the video it looks good?
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Yes and no. Frame grab resolution will be at best 1920x1080, so viewing it at 100% will look better than the 4224x2376 photo at 100%. This because you'll be zooming deeper to stretch the photo to 100%. Either will look fine in your video productions or printed at 8x10.
 
richke said:
So I did a test run real quick with my new HMC40 and my old GS300. Loved the fact I could copy and paste the data from the cam to the HDD whereas the old camera I had to capture the footage. TImESAVER in the future.

But when I was looking at the 1080 footage in premeire it looks horrible. It seemed to render ok(I didn't have any lighting setup besides house lights) so it was a little grainy but I expected that. But in Premeire like blocks were appearing in the footage when played. If the footage was paused it looked fine. I have playback set to 100% and Full Quality. Any ideas?

I have a Quad core PC with 4 GB of RAM - Win7 64.

And holy crap I have got a lot of reading to do...I do not know what half of what this new cam can do!

Thanks,
Rich
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If your editing AVCHD your in trouble. I had a similar system and Premiere crushed it.

Now I am at Intel 6600 2.4mhz quadcore - 8gb ram - GT 240 Mercury Enabled card and its still a challenge.
 
If anything I will toss another 4GB in this PC and it should be fine. It seemed to flow better once I had it on the 1080I settings for the project/comp
 
Hey, don't know if this really helps now but I've a similar computer setup to richke, and sure enough when I used Premiere CS4 the computer struggled in a big way to edit AVCHD. But when I switched to CS5 it actually runs pretty smooth...
Like I said, don't know if that helps, but it could save you buying RAM
 
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