Hi Kathy, Sorry for the delayed reply, looks like you have some interesting and useful posts from the others, as usual.
I think most has been covered, except the part where you need to have the camera on. From this, I assume that you leave the footage on the camera and have not ingested (downloaded) the footage to the hard drive(s)? I.E. you have Premiere shuffle the tape back and forth grabbing the footage when you go to export the final? This in its own was a useful feature for underpowered machines I guess, but as I think most will agree, is (or was) a last resort. (This is the only reason I can think for having the camera left on, using it for monitoring is at best just another weak link in the chain....?) This I think was called indexing? I.E. smaller thumbnail clips were only placed in the edit, the full footage grabbed during the export/render. Stuttering sound is just a slow PC, the old Dell did it with SD when I moved up from MPEG1, and, my old machine did exactly the same (only last year) with HD. I would think a simple i3 machine would probably handle the whole thing for quite a rock bottom price nowadays, they are available for sub £300 in the UK, (around $450?) and as someone else suggested, much cheaper than an MPEG2 card ever was new in reality. I did have one and to be honest, it didn't really add that much power, considering how much it cost, but then the processor power wasn't really viable, unless you wanted to spend silly amounts. As with all things, it gets old, technology progresses at a much faster rate than our wallets want to really keep up with, especially with video. If you have the spare cash, or can raise it, it certainly is worth the superior speed and you'll never look back. (You will probably say: "Why didn't I do this before?") Good luck, Neil. On 16 March 2011 00:36, klspencer20032000 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thank you for your reply, Neil > > I had to do some research to give more info: The computer has three > internal hard drives. > One HDD (C,E,F,H) is divided into partitions (which I called virtual drives > - maybe not the right term). FAT32 > Another HDD(I) has 33 GB free. NTFS > A third HDD(J)also has 33 GB free. NTFS > > It has 1,024MB of physical memory, 764MB of memory available, 2GB of > virtual memory. > > The project files are in a folder on J. The Premiere 6.5 program is on C. I > have tried exporting with the MPEG Encoder to drive J and also to drive I. > Both times it started fast (about 6 frames/sec) and then slowed way down. > After an hour, it said it had 3 hours to go. When I let it run longer, it > said 17 hours to go. I viewed the M2V file after five hours and it was 9.5 > minutes long. The WAV file of sound wouldn't play. > > I wonder if the audio is set incorrectly in the encoder. In the MPEG > Settings Summary window, it says Audio Settings (PCM). Should it be MPEG > Layer 2? I chose DVD for the MPEG Stream. > > Another question: the camcorder has to be on in order for me to edit. Now > that I am through editing and trying to export to MPEG, should the camcorder > be off? Does it need to be off before the project is loaded? > > Should I use NTSC 4x3, Medium Bitrate? I wish I knew what the default > settings are. > > Kathy > > > --- In [email protected], BEDFORD NEIL <barrymung@...> wrote: > > > > I used to struggle with a 1GHz Dell machine, so I dare say yours is a > > 'little' bit slower to deal with the transformation. > > > > You say a virtual drive, do you mean in memory or an external drive? > > > > How much memory has the PC got? For MPEG2 you would need at least 1 Gig I > > would think. > > > > What operating system too? > > > > Loads of questions I know, but it seems to be pushing the limits with > what I > > think you will have from a machine of that era. > > > > Regards, > > > > Neil. > > > > On 15 March 2011 18:23, klspencer20032000 <kbspencer09@...> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > OS: XP Capture card: Canopus Codec from Sony Digital8 Camcorder CPU: > AMD > > > 800 Mhz > > > The program is on Drive C, but the project files are on another virtual > > > drive and might be on a different physical drive. > > > > > > I have a project which is 42 minutes long. I am trying to export it to > > > MPEG-2 in order to get files which I can use in the DVD-It! program > which > > > came with Premiere and make a DVD. > > > > > > I made two DVD's a couple of years ago, but those projects were only > about > > > 10 minutes long each and I don't remember exactly how I did it, other > than > > > with DVD-It! > > > > > > When I started the export to MPEG-2, it said it would take an hour. Now > it > > > is 3 and a quarter hours later and it says it will take 11 hours. It > has > > > done 24435 frames of 82370 frames. The progress bar has slowed > > > significantly. > > > > > > Is there something wrong or is it my slow processor speed? > > > > > > I exported the project to 8MM tape yesterday and that went well. > > > > > > Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! 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