Susann Kovacs
December 11th, 2009, 11:23 PM
Ok guys it's been a while since I've posted but I guess I've been waiting for a project this scale to stump me!
Here is what we're trying to do:
Capture 300 HD videos with Google Earth Pro
Import into Adobe Premiere CS4 and do some minimal editing (soundtrack etc)
Export for HD youtube and general web use.
Sounds simple enough except we're running into some data rate problems.
We need to find out the best capture settings in Google Earth in order to work with them in Premiere. At the moment we end up with jittery, stuttering preview vision and it gets worse after rendering.
Here are the specs we're using:
Google Earth capture:
WMV9
1280x720
16megabit/sec
PC Specs:
Intel I7 952 Chip
12 GB DDR3 1200mhz
Boot Drive - 2x 60Gb SSD in Mirrored Raid
Storage/Scratch Drive - 4x300GB SATA2 drives in RAID 1+0
Vid Card - ATI HD5750 1G DDR5
OS - Windows 7 x64
All drivers and OS patches are applied
The captured videos are being stored on a 3 terabyte NAS (but we're not editing off the NAS, we're transfering to PC hard drive first to avoid network issues).
Because of the sheer volume of videos we need to crunch through we've gone with WMV format as they take up less space.
Not sure why we're getting a stuttery result once we import into Premiere though (the original captures play fine so it's only within Premiere that we see the problem).
From the trouble shooting I've done so far we gather that it's to do with the bitrate yet there appears to be no way to limit this within Premiere (despite various help files directing me to a project settings - video...that menu option just doesn't exist!).
So can anyone shed light on what the best capture settings would be to still get a nice, fairly high res image for HD Youtube broadcast without taxing our systme or storage space too much?
If nothing else this project should provide valuable feedback for others who may wish to do the same.
P.S. yes we already have permission from Google.
Here is what we're trying to do:
Capture 300 HD videos with Google Earth Pro
Import into Adobe Premiere CS4 and do some minimal editing (soundtrack etc)
Export for HD youtube and general web use.
Sounds simple enough except we're running into some data rate problems.
We need to find out the best capture settings in Google Earth in order to work with them in Premiere. At the moment we end up with jittery, stuttering preview vision and it gets worse after rendering.
Here are the specs we're using:
Google Earth capture:
WMV9
1280x720
16megabit/sec
PC Specs:
Intel I7 952 Chip
12 GB DDR3 1200mhz
Boot Drive - 2x 60Gb SSD in Mirrored Raid
Storage/Scratch Drive - 4x300GB SATA2 drives in RAID 1+0
Vid Card - ATI HD5750 1G DDR5
OS - Windows 7 x64
All drivers and OS patches are applied
The captured videos are being stored on a 3 terabyte NAS (but we're not editing off the NAS, we're transfering to PC hard drive first to avoid network issues).
Because of the sheer volume of videos we need to crunch through we've gone with WMV format as they take up less space.
Not sure why we're getting a stuttery result once we import into Premiere though (the original captures play fine so it's only within Premiere that we see the problem).
From the trouble shooting I've done so far we gather that it's to do with the bitrate yet there appears to be no way to limit this within Premiere (despite various help files directing me to a project settings - video...that menu option just doesn't exist!).
So can anyone shed light on what the best capture settings would be to still get a nice, fairly high res image for HD Youtube broadcast without taxing our systme or storage space too much?
If nothing else this project should provide valuable feedback for others who may wish to do the same.
P.S. yes we already have permission from Google.