Maximizing the workflow

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Hi,

I have using Premiere Pro 2 with an AMD Dual 64 3800+ with 2gb, many Hd at 7200rpm, and a nvidia geforce 6600 LE graphic card. I edit almost exclusively HDV footage and I from what I read my my pc setup should be more than enough to edit HDV footage real time on the time line. The problem is that it's ALMOST realtime...but not quite. From time to time I get these small "bumps" (from lack of a better word) on the image. I don't know if there's anything that could give me a bit more speed. I'm thinking about buying more GB so that'll have 4gb instead of 2gb. I'm also considering buying a different graphic card...since I've been having very weird problems with this one for a long time (like the footage looks way darked on the premiere window but it looks normal when I play it in any media player). Anyway, maybe there's also some internal premiere settings that I might be missing. For instance, on "project settings" there's an option called "video rendering" where I can select among different formats (I have mine at "I-frame only mpeg-2") and right above you tick a little square where it says "maximum bit depth". I didn't have this marked. I suppose I should have, right. Well, it's stuff like this that I mean.
Any help will be appreciated.
 
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Project Setting, Playback, Accelerated GPU Effect is what you want if you haven't enable it already. Don't bother with the RAM, Window XP won't allow any one program to utilize more than 2 GB anyway. Probably be better to invest in Cineform.

I have the same problem with displaying the image correctly with my graphic card and I still haven't found a way to make the color match exactly. But Premiere preview is the one displaying the correct color, not your media player, so try to tailer that players to match and not the other way around.
 
That is odd, because I look at the image on the camera's LCD and it looks like the one played by the players, not the one on premiere. Actually, I have a TV plugged into the pc so that I can monitor it better while editing on premiere. And the footage looks different from premiere's too. I also tried burning a dvd and watching it on a different dvd player and it looked different from the footage on premiere.
 
jade8472 said:
Don't bother with the RAM, Window XP won't allow any one program to utilize more than 2 GB anyway. .
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Man, that sucks! I had no idea. There's gotta be a way around this. This is really absurd!
 
The camera LCD sucks at rendering color, don't trust it. Image on the LCD will typically be less saturated than it actually is. A TV will also display color differently if it's not calibrated.
 
Premiere is CPU intensive and is less sensitive to RAM quantity. Even if Window allow you to use more than 2GB just notice from the Task Manager how much Premiere is using right now.
Before we get PP 2.5 or 3 I don't think Vista will be of any help as PP 2.0 was not designed to take advantage of it.

You could invest in a RT card like the Matrox or others, or you could change to a Pentium Core2 duo or even a dual Xeon processor.

Check this site for a Benchmark of your configuration:
http://mysite.verizon.net/wgehrke/ppbm/

comparing you're system with those that have similar CPU's will help you determine if you configured you're system right.
 
Editing HDV is a tax on the processor, not so much the ram. You need an Intel P4 3.6 (Xeon or Extreme Quad Core Preferred) minimum to edit HDV. Even my 3.2GHz on my laptop won't cut it. As far as AMD, you probably need a 4200 or higher. Ridiculous isn't it?
 
ChrisLyon said:
Editing HDV is a tax on the processor, not so much the ram. You need an Intel P4 3.6 (Xeon or Extreme Quad Core Preferred) minimum to edit HDV. Even my 3.2GHz on my laptop won't cut it. As far as AMD, you probably need a 4200 or higher. Ridiculous isn't it?
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Did you just pull all those stats out of your ass?
 
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