JVC Pro HD and Adobe Premiere Pro

[David Newman]

Yes. However currently this is a preview mode output. We intended to (finally) allow for disabling the preview for full quality timeline monitoring for the new JVC 100U camera. This update to Aspect HD should happen soon. Sorry I can't give more details until that happens.

[Glenn Johnson]

Last question David! Whats the difference?

Thanks for your time

[David Newman]

Not a huge amount, and zero on the final output. The CineForm codec has a preview decoding mode for increase real-time mixing of multiple streams of video. Prospect HD allow you to turn that feature off, Aspect HD doesn't in the current release (AHD was designed for a wide range of PCs.) Future versions of Aspect HD will be more like Prospect HD, by offering more user controls.

[Glenn Johnson]

Cheers David.

I'm in the UK. Is this okay for me to use?

[David Newman]

Sure. We have nothing against PAL countries. :)

[David Shaughnessy]

I notice they say Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 2 is needed for the HD Plug-in to work! I refused to install SP2 as it crashed my system every time I tried to install it. Do they really mean it when they say you have to have it installed? And what happens if you just have SP 1? Anyone know?

[David Newman]

It is a major pain to make the cameras run on SP1 as they're are not automatically recognized. I can't remember how it is done, although I found this old post that might help : http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=16673

[David Shaughnessy]

Thanks David. I'll check it out.

David

[Michael Maier]

I’m getting a funny behaviour from Premiere Pro.
When I playback my footage and watch it in the LCD camera monitor on external monitor, it plays fine, smooth and clean. But if I capture the same footage with premiere (1.5) and then try to playback the clip captured, it play fine for the first 10 sec or so, but then it shows extreme and severe macro blocking. Very ugly, like a continuous dropout or something. I thought I might have dropouts in my footage, so I went back and watched it again in the camera’s LCD and it plays fine.
Anybody know what’s going on?
Premiere is set to 720p 29.37, then I go to custom and set it to 25p
Thanks for the help.

[Michael Maier]

I guess nobody is using Premiere to ingest HD100 footage here. So what are you guys using then?

[Sean Livingstone]

Is that after you have rendered it?

[Michael Maier]

No. That's just after I have captured it. I go to my HDD folder where the clips were captured to and try to play them using Windows media player, quicktime or realplayer.

[Mikael Widerberg]

Do you use Cineform Aspect as a plugin when capturing?

[Michael Maier]

I was trying their demo, yes. Although I was just using Premiere's capture tool. I thought AspectHD just works through it, as Premiere gives me the option of opening a HDV 720p project. Does AspectHD have it's own capture tool?

[David Newman]

There are two capture drivers, one that comes with Premiere Pro 1.5.1 that doesn't support the HD100, and the one that is added by Aspect HD, which works great with the HD100 (in all modes.) If you start with the 720p24 Aspect HD preset you will be use the new capture driver. Aspect HD also comes with HDLink, a stand-alone capture utility that will help you diagnose capture problems. Have a quick read of the included Aspect HD manual on using HDLink. Once your capture works in HDLink you will get Premiere Pro capture working (if your PC is at least a P4.)