Kenneth S. Bell (bellk@dvline.com)
Wed, 02 Jun 1999 13:59:04 -0600
Adam,
If you can hang in there, Digital Origin will soon be releasing EditDV for
Windows which will give you many of the features you are looking for. Plus, it
will work directly with your Digital Origin Firewire card and MotoDV.
For details, visit the DO website at http://www.digitalorigin.com
Thanks,
Ken Bell
-- DVLine - DV/Firewire Video Editing Solutions http://www.dvline.com | (800) 826-0556 | sales@dvline.com We build and support systems that work for you! Microsoft Certified Professionals"Adam E. Abraham" wrote:
> Hello everyone, > > We recently purchased an NT-based NLE system built around the MotoDV Studio > capture card, with Premiere 5.1(a). We've taken the "home-brewed" experience > route and have indeed taken a few lumps in getting things up to speed. > (System crashes requiring 3 hard disk reformats being among them.) > > But system-wise, things are beginning to work out. We have a much better > understanding of where the problems are (capacity, RAM, etc.), and are > fixing them. The MotoDV capture card works like a champ (I can vouch for the > firewire card review in the June print issue of "DV" magazine (www.dv.com). > > My question is regarding Premiere. Our editor -- experienced at > feature-length films (by actually cutting film, and via the Avid system) -- > seems to be pushing Premiere to the limits, particularly with regard to some > of the more subtle editing methods. Problems with transitions - from simple > cuts (Premiere appearing to "insert" phantom frames) and dissolves -- to > "stretching" audio tracks to "synch" across clips with, for example, the > ripple and rolling edit tools. Sometimes it seems to take forever for > Permiere to "process" a change (even Undos)... this with a 400 MHz > dual-Pentium II (NT 4.0) setup with 256 MB RAM. A "staccato sound" is > somethings inserted in the audio after a clip has been manipulated a bit... > and audio will sometimes go off-sync on playback, and after it is "fixed," > it will go off-sync again, in the same place. > > My question is two-fold: > > 1. Is *Premiere* really "ready for prime time" with regard to editing > feature-length films? (We realize it could still be our inexperience, but > the people at Adobe tech support have not actually been very helpful so > far -- *willing* and *trying*, but not helpful, because they're not really > editors themselves.) > > 2. Can you recommend any other comparably-priced, stable, non-linear editing > packages, with a similar feature set that could get the job done. > > Maybe these things wouldn't be problems if our movies were going to be > postage-stamp, or quarter-frame in size (which might then suggest that our > graphics card -- a Matrox Millennium G2-- with 16 MB RAM -- might be > contributing to the problem). > > One more question is perhaps if anyone knows of a resource where we can get > some informed guidance on Premiere, not from the system side, but with > regard to editing. We're working on a self-produced short (30-minutes) > drama, which is helping to "shake down" both the system, while we ramp-up in > experience, and have several feature film projects -- and film shorts -- in > development. > > Any comments, tips, resources or suggestions that you can direct us to in > the L.A. area would be appreciated. > > Thanks in advance. > > Adam... > digital@earthlink.net
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