Hey all. Does the Premiere Pro 3 trial actually have HDV enabled? I downloaded the trial, but was unable to see any HDV presets.

I looked on the adobe site for plug-ins or upgrades about HDV (specifically I'm using the canon XH-A1 so if there are any 24f issues I'll need help with those too), but the only ones I found were for 2.0.

Thanks in advance.

Jeff, Adobe does not put HD presets on the Trial version....

If you want to play with the trial with HD material you can do what alot of us did during the beta testing of Premier and After effects....

The way we fixed the issue was to download the trial version of Cineform
Aspect or Prospect...

Doing this will allow full functionality for HD material

Ray,

Thanks, that worked perfectly. Unfortunately, I have another problem now. I can't import .m2t files into Premiere. Is there a work around?

m2t is native HDV... not supported in the trial.

Use Cineform HDLink to convert your m2t files into CFHD avi's - then you open PPRO CS3, use a Cineform preset and import your avi's in.

Be careful here, you might like cineform so much that you forget about hdv and go with the wavelet compression :)

In my opinion, CS3 is pretty much useless without cineform.

I'm looking into a switch to FCP on a G5. (Currently prospect is being offered with both platform codecs).

I'm editing HDV with CS3 on a new Quad core machine with 3 gigs of ram and (yuck) Vista; but I have to say it just flies!

I would love to get my hands on cineform but as seeing as I can't afford another $500 application for awhile it will have to wait.

I just wanted to add that with powerful hardware you can edit HDV nicely in CS3.

Of course top end hardware can handle the native HD footage....

thats not the issue... the issue is that Cineform un-compresses the native
HD footage and allows you to work that footage over and over again without
any compression loss....

If you edit over and over again with native HD footage the compression begins to take its toll.........

Julian,

I have a powerful machine too. How long does it take to render your hdv footage once on the timeline? Do you wait until the project is done before rendering the footage or do you render as you plug away?

I find mine a little sluggish in terms of rendering HDV even though I sport 4 gigs of RAM and e6700 cpu. Any rendering is dissapointing to tell the truth.

I am watching the task manager performance on my dual quad wile it is rendering a file in Ppro 2.0.

Only two processors seem to be doing anything. Does anyone know if the performance will be better with CS3?

If not I don’t see any reason to upgrade.