Let’s face it, if you are in the video business today…you have to upgrade to an efficient HD camera(s), trust me…your video will look a whole lot better…HD and SD…And your clients will love it! Okay give me an example.
CASE 1: Background, I have two Sony PD170’s … used them all the time for most of my video shoots. Now I have the Sony HVR-V1U…great camera…At first, I would only use it for “HD Shoots”…duh…All I had to do was use this superior camera in SD and get even better video than the PD170’s. Well the light went on the day I shot my video of FIRST CHOICE CARPETS. You can see the video at http://www.bobcummings.tv. Actually you can see a lot of video on that site. Okay, back to First Choice. They needed to have a group shot of about 15 employees screaming out their slogan. I had the Sony HD camera up in the second floor office looking down on the group. I hooked up a mike to the PD170, next to the group on the floor out of camera frame, and let the tape roll to pick up a clean audio feed.
After the shot was completed, I picked up the PD170 and said, what the heck, I got tape, I’ll do some pickups with this camera and burn some tape. I ended up duplicating some of the shots that I already had down with the HD camera (shooting in SD by the way). Packed up everything and headed back to do the editing.
Here’s the kicker, I looked at the carpet and tile shots that I took with the PD170 and then looked at the same items in SD that I shot with the Sony HD HVR-1VU Camera and the color and sharpness difference was unbelievable. Don’t get me wrong. The PD170 is a great 3 CCD camera for any shoot, but now I use the HD camera for all my shoots…even in HD.
I would try and upload the two cases but with the compression issues you probably would not see the difference, but as a fellow editor, it will blow you away when you see it you studio monitors.
More on the way…who else is having problems with Adobe Premiere C3 after Service Pack 1 came out?
Talk to you soon.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Adobe Premiere C3 Problems Continue
Well at least the one great thing about Service Pack 1 for Vista is the fact that additional memory can be read. Before, the most you could pump out of Vista was 3.75 gigs…even if you had 4 GIG installed. I was able to add an additional 4 Gigs to my Gateway today…bringing up to 6 GIG for the machine…and it displayed the 6 GIG total in the welcome screen. This should help anyone using Adobe products. They are such memory hogs and with each update, the program gets slower and slower.
If you are using an AMD computer…C3 just doesn’t work. You have to dig pretty deep into the website to find out they have the CYA on this…they only recommended before…now they are saying it will not work with AMD…from Adobe Website: “Note:The following CPUs do not have SSE2 support and will not work with Adobe Premiere Pro CS3: AMD Athlon/ Athlon XP/ Athlon XP-M ".
Why would a company as big as Adobe and till now, one of best editing products on the market, limit their use by the consumer. Here I am with a 9500 Quad AMD, a 8800 Card…screams by the way…and 6 GIG of ram and can’t use the product. Here is my background with Premiere 2.0…which still is the best of their numerous upgrades…65 one hour shows weekly for national TV. I can give you every short cut their is in Premiere. I had to crank out these shows every week and believe it or not, Premiere 2.0 came through every time. The biggest change for 2.0 to C3 was the title engine. Before the PTL were separate files that didn’t have to be tracked in the main program. By moving the “convenience” of having the PTL’s embed in the program just slowed it down to a crawl. Any of us in the editing world knows, that most video masterpieces involve lots of titles over video. After about the 7th title, the program just can’t keep up with all that information embedded in video file.
Back to AMD. I tried to get some response from them about what “SSE2″…probably an INTEL name…meant and did they actually have a processor that addresses this special “Adobe requirement”. Still no reply but I will keep you posted.
I’ll have more on this coming up. Also, let me know some of your problems with the new C3. By the way, there is a new update for Adobe Premiere C3 on their website. Here is the link: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=98&platform=Windows
This is for the Windows version. I hear that there is another one due out in a few days and I’ll get that link to you when I have the official word and it is up on their websit.
Talk to you soon!
If you are using an AMD computer…C3 just doesn’t work. You have to dig pretty deep into the website to find out they have the CYA on this…they only recommended before…now they are saying it will not work with AMD…from Adobe Website: “Note:The following CPUs do not have SSE2 support and will not work with Adobe Premiere Pro CS3: AMD Athlon/ Athlon XP/ Athlon XP-M ".
Why would a company as big as Adobe and till now, one of best editing products on the market, limit their use by the consumer. Here I am with a 9500 Quad AMD, a 8800 Card…screams by the way…and 6 GIG of ram and can’t use the product. Here is my background with Premiere 2.0…which still is the best of their numerous upgrades…65 one hour shows weekly for national TV. I can give you every short cut their is in Premiere. I had to crank out these shows every week and believe it or not, Premiere 2.0 came through every time. The biggest change for 2.0 to C3 was the title engine. Before the PTL were separate files that didn’t have to be tracked in the main program. By moving the “convenience” of having the PTL’s embed in the program just slowed it down to a crawl. Any of us in the editing world knows, that most video masterpieces involve lots of titles over video. After about the 7th title, the program just can’t keep up with all that information embedded in video file.
Back to AMD. I tried to get some response from them about what “SSE2″…probably an INTEL name…meant and did they actually have a processor that addresses this special “Adobe requirement”. Still no reply but I will keep you posted.
I’ll have more on this coming up. Also, let me know some of your problems with the new C3. By the way, there is a new update for Adobe Premiere C3 on their website. Here is the link: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=98&platform=Windows
This is for the Windows version. I hear that there is another one due out in a few days and I’ll get that link to you when I have the official word and it is up on their websit.
Talk to you soon!
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