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LOVING!!! Edius 2.0 and Laptop editing right now...

 



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May 31, 2004, 1:08 AM

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Dell Inspiron 5100 2.66ghz pent 4 and1 gig 2100ddr ram.
Edius 2.0
Western Digital 120gig 8mb Cache FW HD.
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I must say right now I am loving this! It's 4 in the morning. I was up@ 6 am to go shoot an Orthodox Jewish Wedding... After the wedding @ 6pm had Nathan's Hot Dog's with Arkadiusz here from the VU boards who was shooting with me today.
(BTW HAPPY 21ST BIRTHDAY ARKADIUSZ!!!!!!!) Got home. Took a nap. The girl came over to watch a movie. I went to bed and have have been awake for the past 2 hrs and started editing a job I took home for the weekend. I have cut jobs before in premiere on my laptop but this job I'm doing now is the first with Edius on my laptop.
BOY DOES THIS PROGRAM SCREAM!!!! Aside from the great titler built in. I'm scrubbing @ 16x speed through the fwhd without problem!
I have 7-8 Torrent files downloading wirelessly while editing!!! Edius is super stable and even with a small rt buffer of only 32 frames using just the processor of the laptop as compared to a 5 or 6 second buffer with my Storm2 card @ the office. But the program is working flawlessly on my laptop. Much better than 6.5 or Pro premiere's did on this laptop.
So for those who are looking or pondering about the laptop as a second editor or maybe upgrading to Edius 2.0... Do it! The only draw back to the laptop editing is im stuck using one monitor to edit wirh (I always use duel monitor setups for editing)... But sitting here editing a job on my bed since I'm wide awake is working great.
Oh yeah there are NO PHONE CALLS WHATSOEVER stopping me right now from editing as compared to the non stop calls in the office!
Happy editing everyone and enjoy your memorial day!!!
happy birthday ark!
-Chris


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May 31, 2004, 3:18 AM

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Chris,
This is great news. I was thinking of dumping the storm card, because I edit with edius 1.51 and upgrading to Edius 2 and building a new computer (3.2HT). My thoughts are that the storm is quickly becoming obsolete and I will be sitting on a $1100 firewire card....
....any thoughts?


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May 31, 2004, 4:47 AM

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That reminds me of Robert Rodriguez. He likes to edit all through the night because that way he doesn't get bothered by phone calls. When in post production he switches night for day.
Coleman


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May 31, 2004, 8:42 AM

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Hi, I run the storm2 with prem.pro. would edisus work with my machine. It's pretty loaded. I have been reading good things about 2.0. Will the storm card enhance performance or does it not matter. My system is very stable, but prem.pro can be buggy sometimes. How are the effects on this program, are they like the storm 2 or better? have fun editing at night, it is peacful.
BT


: That reminds me of Robert Rodriguez. He likes to edit all through the night because that way he doesn't get bothered by phone calls. When in post production he switches night for day.
: Coleman


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May 31, 2004, 10:26 AM

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Thanks dude...
It feels good to finally be legal LOL
Stop being such a workaholic.!!!!!!!

Arkadiusz


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May 31, 2004, 11:31 AM

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Chris
Thanks for the update on Edius. I have been considering upgrading to version 2 so I could use it on my laptop as well.
The more I use version 1.5 the more I like it.
All My Best,
Mark Von Lanken
Picture This Productions
www.TulsaWeddingVideos.com


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May 31, 2004, 1:05 PM

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I still "like" Premiere 6.5 better than both of em. I was self taught on Prem 6.5 and could do everything. Liek the backof my hand, I knew it all. Splitting audio and video tracks is different between edius and pro obviously.
Minor thing slike you'd hit the "." key to drop your preview windowns i/o to the timeline..Edius uses "e".
Your bin window is allllll the way ont he right side of the screen...
But then again with Premiere Pro when you try and fake a/b editing your audio stays on track one thus deleting the tail ends of your initial video clip. Edius I would defiantly say is more user friendly...
BTW try out PIP filter with Edius.. You have the option now of colour changing your background video...
ex. you have a shot in a pip window of the b and g.... int he backgroudn you can have the same clip and change the colour to say Oraange.
Edius is just really nice to use. There are no picture thumbnails on your timeline which sucks but you have through your tv output ONSCREEN TIMECODES AND AUDIO LEVELS!!!!
You can scroll through yoru timeline and see your audio levels the whole time!!1 ITS GREAT!!!
Don't get rid of your storm2 card pal. use it with Edius and the program will render faster and work much more efficicently over just the comps hardware.
Edius is a great alternative for those on premiere with a storm card or anyone who isn't to thrilled with vegas for software only editing.
-chris
p.s. the slow motion is great on edius (i think pro is slightly better though)


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May 31, 2004, 1:14 PM

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I have been happy with the slo mo on prem.pro is there that big of a diiference beteween the two?



: I still "like" Premiere 6.5 better than both of em. I was self taught on Prem 6.5 and could do everything. Liek the backof my hand, I knew it all. Splitting audio and video tracks is different between edius and pro obviously.
: Minor thing slike you'd hit the "." key to drop your preview windowns i/o to the timeline..Edius uses "e".
: Your bin window is allllll the way ont he right side of the screen...
: But then again with Premiere Pro when you try and fake a/b editing your audio stays on track one thus deleting the tail ends of your initial video clip. Edius I would defiantly say is more user friendly...
: BTW try out PIP filter with Edius.. You have the option now of colour changing your background video...
: ex. you have a shot in a pip window of the b and g.... int he backgroudn you can have the same clip and change the colour to say Oraange.
: Edius is just really nice to use. There are no picture thumbnails on your timeline which sucks but you have through your tv output ONSCREEN TIMECODES AND AUDIO LEVELS!!!!
: You can scroll through yoru timeline and see your audio levels the whole time!!1 ITS GREAT!!!
: Don't get rid of your storm2 card pal. use it with Edius and the program will render faster and work much more efficicently over just the comps hardware.
: Edius is a great alternative for those on premiere with a storm card or anyone who isn't to thrilled with vegas for software only editing.
: -chris
: p.s. the slow motion is great on edius (i think pro is slightly better though)


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May 31, 2004, 2:25 PM

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The slow mo on Edius is great. They both beat up prem 6.5. When I saw Pro's slow mo i was blown away and as well as with Edius. But i think pro may be SLIGHTLY better. but not by much if anything at all.
-chris


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Jun 1, 2004, 1:48 AM

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Chris, how do you check on a near completed timeline that your audio is still in sync with the video eg. on 2 camera shoots? In Premiere you have the red arrows to indicate out of sync or add markers to your clips vertically, in Avid you have sync lock across tracks and frames sync out indication on clips. Is there a way to do this in Edius?
Iain J


: The slow mo on Edius is great. They both beat up prem 6.5. When I saw Pro's slow mo i was blown away and as well as with Edius. But i think pro may be SLIGHTLY better. but not by much if anything at all.
: -chris


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Jun 1, 2004, 12:43 PM

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:Audio i slocked to the video ont he video tracks.
you have seperate audio tracks, just like you have seperate title tracks in edius.
So you could mute the audio section of video via filters or keyframing and then in your seperate audio tracks do audio overlays etc.
Program is very wellplanned and thoughtout but like when switch from anything there is alearning curve to get the thing to do what you want it to do.
It's like driving a car. All cars are different some have their gear changes on the steering collum, some to your right..some are manual... The point being...knowing how to edit (Drive) is the hard part... getting accustomed to the car and learning how to make it do what you want to do is the easy part.
From people ont he VU boards switching from storm edit, premiere, and others... Moving to Edius witht he learning curve has been the easiest move.
go to canopus.com and download the demo of 2.0. it's very limited in what it can do but get a feel for the program you will be pleasently surprised.
-chris


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Jun 1, 2004, 1:35 PM

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I tried Edius v1 on a 2 camera project which was nearly 2 hours long as but I found it was too easy to throw the non locked on audio/ video tracks out of sync by being in the wrong ripple mode with no indication of how far out or where you had gone out of sync- decided it was no use to me. This is a basic feature for 2 camera work. The only way to check audio sync was to watch the complete project! Even basic markers on clips would work. Is this feature in v2?
Iain J

it was too risky: :Audio i slocked to the video ont he video tracks.
: you have seperate audio tracks, just like you have seperate title tracks in edius.
: So you could mute the audio section of video via filters or keyframing and then in your seperate audio tracks do audio overlays etc.
: Program is very wellplanned and thoughtout but like when switch from anything there is alearning curve to get the thing to do what you want it to do.
: It's like driving a car. All cars are different some have their gear changes on the steering collum, some to your right..some are manual... The point being...knowing how to edit (Drive) is the hard part... getting accustomed to the car and learning how to make it do what you want to do is the easy part.
: From people ont he VU boards switching from storm edit, premiere, and others... Moving to Edius witht he learning curve has been the easiest move.
: go to canopus.com and download the demo of 2.0. it's very limited in what it can do but get a feel for the program you will be pleasently surprised.
: -chris