AboutAlessandro Machi Expertise Have experience in both video and film, plus videotape editing, archiving, and remastering. Experienced in live event cinematography plus interviews. Have provided Video Post Production Services for independent film & video productions that have been distributed both nationwide and worldwide. Not too familiar with all the various Hd formats although I did operate an HD B-roll camera for an HD independent feature.
Regional Emmy Winner, also an Emmy Internship Scholarship Winner when I first finished college back in the mid 80's, plus several dozen super-8 filmmaking awards and for video productions as well.
I currently offer YouTube uploading tutoring that includes a critique and technical review as well. If you live in Los Angeles and would like to learn more about this educational service send an email to info at slingshotpro.com
Recently finished cinematography work on the film Dali, Dali, Dali which is now in post production.
Experience 25 years of Film & Video Production & Editing Experience including low budget & quality control. I enjoy filming in Super-8.
Organizations Founded Action! Film and Video Production Club while in College.
Publications www.Opednews.com
Education/Credentials Four Year College Program, was one or two classes short of graduation.
Awards and Honors Regional Emmy Winner, 8 Time Vision Award Winner, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Internship Winner, Film Festival Winner for several different Super-8 Films,
Past/Present Clients Sony Pictures, Prudential Jon Douglas, In Defense of Animals, Humane Society of the United States, Ivy Gullickson
Question I have recently purchased an Apple Imac (Intel), and Adobe Premiere Pro CS3. From earlier I have 40 minutes of half-done edited DV project on my old PC. The video was captured from my Sony DCR-TRV80, (shot in Anamorphic 16:9) into Pinnacle Studio v.9.
What would be the best method to get the edited video into Adobe Premiere without any quality loss, as further editing and rendering will be done on my iMac ?
Answer Hello Ivar, I have limited experience in this area however there is one technique that may work, although it has a downside. This downside however is one you can probably minimize.
I would do a firewire videotape lay back to digital videotape from the original video editing platform. I hope this is possible and can be done at the highest possible quality. If this is not possible than your original editing platform has let you down, big time. However I'll assume for this discussion that you can do a video lay back to digital videotape from your original computer edit master. (A lay back to DVD is a poor second option since the DVD will be heavily compressed.)
Once the original computer edit master has been laid back to digital videotape you will then be able to re-import from this videotape into your new video editing system. The downside to this method is all of your video and audio mixes cannot be undone once they are laid down on videotape. You can add to an existing mixed video edit but it becomes virtually impossible to undo mixed soundtracks and mixed video tracks.
After the video lay back to digital videotape I would then do a second lay back to a second digital videotape!
If possible go back to the original timeline and undo all of your video and sound mixes and then lay those to digital videotape. This will put you in a good position to re-input your digital videotape lay back into your new computer and continue editing with the minimal amount of overlaps.
You may have to create clip sequences of your from your computer edit master so that you don't cut off any valuable sound or video imagery. You will need to lay back (or lay down) from the original computer video version the first shot of any sequence that has either a digital effect or a dissolve in it, but with no dissolve or digital effect mixed in, onto digital videotape. Now lay down the next shot of the now unmixed sequence from it's earliest point onto digital videotape. Your digital videotape may have gaps between these lay downs but that shouldn't matter since you will be re-importing it into a new computer editing system.
Some older editing systems rendered their dissolves or other digital effects at very low resolutions and that is the second reason why you will want to try and avoid incorporating them into the new computer.
You may want to think of your original edit master as a "straight cuts" version that you now will embellish in your new iMac.
I hope that works!
There may be other workarounds that don't involve outputting to videotape, but I am not knowledgeable enough to tell you about them.
