Mark, I suspect that Uwe's suggestion of Premiere Elements may be the most straight forward for you. The current version is V9.0 but V10 is due out in September. This means that the V9 is available at very good prices and indeed I have a box containing the bundled version (Photoshop Elements v9 + Premiere Elements v9) sitting on my desk at the moment having just arrived. The current UK price for that is about GBP 66 (= USD 100 approx). The 'system requirements' do NOT include a 64 bit operating system but mention that a 3GHz processor with SSE2 support is required for HDV. A dual core processor is required for AVCHD.
You may wish to note that when HDV is captured it produces an .m2t file. This is a form of MPEG2 and requires the MPEG2 facilities of Premiere Elements which are probably NOT included in the free trial version of PE. This is because Adobe have to pay a licence fee to use the MPEG2 codec and therefore do not make it available in the trial (free) version. If PE doesn't suit you and you can't find a suitable version of Premiere for your 32 bit system I would suggest that you consider the cheaper version of Grass Valley's EDIUS program which is called 'NEO 2 with booster pack'. Actually I believe NEO 3 may be out now. This is a very versatile program with a great reputation for stability and it includes an intermediate codec which will 'unpack' compressed HD formats such as HDV and AVCHD into an .AVI file which can be edited by a much more modest speed computer. I think Grass Valley offer a 30 day free trial. Incidentally, be aware that .AVI files are not all the same and an AVI file created (captured) by one program may well not be readable by all others. It is important to know which codec was used to create the file and to have it available on the machine you are intending to play or edit the file on. If you feel the need for more guidance about which program is best, you may need to give us a bit more information about the type of material you are producing and what is to be used for - e.g. Holiday (vacation) videos or quick turn-around news for TV. Let us know how you get on as other people may find themselves with a similar dilemma. Julian Bristol, England *********************************************** On 25/08/2011 14:14, [email protected] wrote: > > ________________________________________________________________________ > 1c. Re: best 32 bit Premiere version for HD video editing > Posted by: "Mark McLaughlin" [email protected] weavsigman > Date: Thu Aug 25, 2011 1:17 am ((PDT)) > > Thank you Uwe, I'm looking at HDV input from miniDV cassette tapes, > which arrives as, .avi? > > Will look at Elements, is its advantage merely price, or abilty > to run on 32bit OS and intake& edit HDV? Version numbers? > > System is XP pro 2.8 gig clock /w 2.5 Gig ram, 3 - 500Gig HDs > > Cheers > > Mark McLaughlin >> ----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Uwe Soltau >> Sent: August 24, 2011 11:50 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [AP] best 32 bit Premiere version for HD video editing >> >> >> >> >> >> Mark, >> >> The last 32bit version is CS4. >> What do you mean with HD? HDV or AVCHD? >> CS4 handles HDV well but not AVCHD but then you computing >> power is also important. >> >> What type of videos are you making? You might consider >> Premiere Elements as an interim solution.(US$ 100) >> >> Uwe >> ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
