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Re: hi

Post by mirkosp » Fri Nov 30, 2007 8:39 am

quantbits wrote:
mirkosp wrote:
quantbits wrote:thank you for all the replies.

Premier Project opens in AfterEffects, but my raw files are all in xvid, which is incompatible.

could someone suggest a program to convert it to a format AE can wok with?
Convert them to Huffyuv or Lagarith or Uncompressed with VirtualDubMod. That works fine, but it will require HD space.
heh I reserved 20G just for rendering and storage of stock video, and I have 14 left. should not be a problem =)
Well, if I'm correct a 25/30 mins episode in Huffyuv is around 4GB, so it might be a problem. Not sure if that's the weight, but generally people tend to have an external HDD of about 160GB just for source footage - that's AFAIK.
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Post by bobbias » Fri Nov 30, 2007 11:24 am

I'm thanking god I had the foresight to buy a 320 GB drive when I put this computer together, lol. I have a couple minutes of video quickly chopped out of my source and encoded to Lagarith and they are taking about 2 GB right now. (I have a clip that's 3:50 and 1.54 GB, the others are around 100 MB each.)

But, I'd rather sacrifice space, than quality.
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Post by BasharOfTheAges » Fri Nov 30, 2007 2:05 pm

Harddrives are getting cheap nowadays anyways. I run with around 1TB on my system - hell a buddy of mine recently bought 1TB of HDDs at best buy on Black Friday for less than $100.
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Post by bobbias » Fri Nov 30, 2007 3:25 pm

Well, I've got an 80 GB and a 15 GB drive running IDE on here salvaged from the old computer I had before this, and my 320 on SATA, with 4 more SATA slots, but no more drives, or space in the case. Albeit, space means nothing considering I've got the side panel off 24/7. The 320 GB drive cost me about $110CAD, and that was a year or so ago. The entire computer cost about $800, with the RAM being the most costly, at about $160 (1GB, supposed to run in Dual Channel, though I haven't figured out how to get it to work right). It runs quite nicely, especially since I have it OC'd by about 23%, and it still runs within a decent range (Forget the temps though). I just wish I could get a 64 bit OS to go with my AMD Athlon 64...
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Post by quantbits » Sun Dec 02, 2007 3:26 pm

well I'm not going to cut the whole clip.
I'm just going to cut the segment I'm going to use, so it shouldn't be a problem.

Unless I should be converting the whole thing?
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Post by floatuponourtears » Thu Dec 13, 2007 6:15 am

quantbits wrote:well I'm not going to cut the whole clip.
I'm just going to cut the segment I'm going to use, so it shouldn't be a problem.

Unless I should be converting the whole thing?
Cutting the episodes to segments would be fine, just make sure that in the end you have all the footage you need.
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