CUDA based cards now have another home in CS5

Posted by on May 19, 2011 in Tech Tips | 1 comment In my search for a list of CUDA based NVidia video cards that will support Adobe Premiere CS5, I came across this web site www.Studio1productions.com.  It has an article that has the steps to unlock Premiere CS5 so that more than the few currently Adobe supported CUDA cards can be used to crunch video data from the Premiere timeline.  Good news, as the suggested high end Quadro line of NVidia...
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NTSC and PAL in Hi-Def!! I don’t think so

Posted by on Feb 24, 2011 in Resource Articles | 6 comments NTSC or PAL Operation in High Definition Video Lets start off by saying there is no such thing as NTSC or PAL in the High Definition video world.  Just scan rate differences. NTSC and PAL standards are color methods and scan/refresh rates that have their origin in the analog domain.  Their corollary does however have a bridge to Digital Television (DTV) in the form of the well established DVD,...
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Frame Blending Problem in Premiere CS4

Posted by on Jan 23, 2011 in Tech Tips | 1 comment Frame blending can be forced off in render. When I do my Premiere setups prior to doing an edit on my HD video files, one of the first things I do is to turn off the ‘blend frames‘ option in the Clip menu. It is on by default.  A simple test on the clip in the timeline verifies the setting.  But a big oops appears in the output render.  Frame blend is still on. The ghostly look of...
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Creating Proxy Files in Adobe Premiere CS4 and CS5

Posted by on Dec 19, 2010 in Tech Tips | 27 comments Offline Proxy editing for High Definition Video When working with uncompressed YUV video files like we do at HomeDVD, we use a technique called proxy editing.  Why do this?  Uncompressed HD video files by nature are large and as such present a data handling problem on most computer platforms particularly when editing them.  Did I mention slow as molasses in January. It simply means that rather...
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Competitive comparsion of an SD film transfer

Posted by on Jun 1, 2010 in Resource Articles | 1 comment The wide range of film telecine methods, equipment, internal workflows and post production practices have a direct impact on the visual outcome of a telecined home movie film. Lets take a look at the differences. “If I were to transfer my once in a lifetime films to DVD, choosing a film transfer vendor could be a real gamble. Unless I assume they all produce the same results and all I have...
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