Two clips from today, Mainly just testing out camera ness

[Gravityjay]

Basically at christmas I got a new camera :) A Samsung HMX20C which I love to death and the footage looks amazing, while it's on the camera... The issue I have is importing the footage straight into premiere my computer chugs like crazy (It's no slouch either, Quad core 2.4ghz 8600GT but only 2gb of RAM at the moment)

Now is it just premiere having issues? or do I just need more RAM? movie maker has no issues with the footage and I have literally just downloaded a vegas trial to see how that goes,

Anyway, here is the clip from movie maker, when i put it on divshare it went totally to shit so I will be trying Vegas then uploading that :)

http://www.divshare.com/download/6625495-ac9


Feel free to ignore the shit house c900 I was pooing myself about comboing a double full...

I will edit with vegas edit links :)

http://www.divshare.com/download/6625965-0df

I rendered in vegas and it looked good, but was 38mb for a clip that was ten seconds long, so I re rendered with autogk, which seems to have made it less good... On the plus side It let me edit without issues which is basically what I wanted to be honest :)


And it STILL looks like shit on divshare! I'll try vimeo...

[k-slash]

Jay you suck, comboing doubelfulls, how dare you suck so much.

2nd doubelfull was too easy.

I can't wait to trick with you soon! You better pop a flash out of that doubelfull when I see you!

[Skippy]

Goooddddd Jay I hope I get to see you in action some day 0_o You're too good man.

[Gravityjay]

I'm hoping that by easter I'll be doing that :D or swinging them haha!

Currently weight training to fix the knee and on a decent diet to drop some weight (I feel I have enough left over body fat to do both ha ha)

Better quality on vimeo but it is a MUCH bigger file... took 12 minutes to upload a 10 second clip ha ha

http://vimeo.com/3325920

[Alexx]

jay you have to proxy edit, it sucks but its worth it :(

[Gravityjay]

Ive been reading up on proxy editing and i need to edit one of my custom presets, but I can't find the fucking things! arg!

I'm currently installing premiere cs4 with the hope that it will either manage the footage better and let me edit my presets, or just let me edit my presets...

Expect quite a lot of footage from me until I get this shit sorted ha ha

[Alexx]

custom presets ?
Just make two folder, proxy and raw.
Use super covert everything in raw to MP4, make sure its exporting to the proxy folder.
Make sure all the clips are renamed to HDV_####.MP4 and edit those. Save the project on the video editing software.
Rename raw folder Proxy and proxy folder proxy old. Open project. Boom baby

[Gravityjay]

hmm see you have to do that every time? with this way when you import it, the preview is at a much lower resolution so it doesn't chug up the system, but when you render and export it's done at full quality... I'll try this way and if it doesn't work will have to resort to yours :)

[Alexx]

whats that, you'r doing it in a different way ?

[Gravityjay]

I discovered in cs4 I don't even need to fuck around with all this. I just import everything, render and its golden all runs smoothly :) must have a more efficient way of rendering HD footage :D

Jay= Happy!


Right it's legs and shoulders at the gym so I must be off!

[Bozzy]

Jay thats crazy man, I can't wait for easter!

[joepaxton]

Fuck Jay that was awesome!!

[Dovicka]

Awesome Clips man! Big man do BIG TRICKS!

BUTTTT..... googled the camcorder you mentioned

isn't it 1920x1080? The clip you uploaded looks like a low-bitrate 640x480 video.

you should use the advanced settings to make it either 1920x1080, or my preference 1280x720 (it seems to smooth it out nicely) Then either render it uncompressed, or something very high like 12000 kbps (or 100% quality) in that cinepack codec

Then use this tool http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/download.htm
to choose the right bitrate.

I find h264 @ 5000 kbps is pretty nice for online clips, even pretty good downloadable
audio I just do mp3 lame at 192 kbps

<==== my 2 cents, lol

[Gravityjay]

Yeah thanks Dovicka, the thread was basically a ploy to have an excuse to upload some footage and see how it works, I'm going to do the whole thing over (not that it's alot of work) tomorrow on premiere cs4 and see how it goes, thanks for the encoding tool I will have a play about and possibly add some more footy in to the video :)