On Wed, 29 Dec 1999 12:34:45 +0800, "David Winter" wrote:

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>3. One function which is very slow with Premiere is when colour correction,
>or brightness/contrast correction is needed. This is not keyframed, so the
>razor is needed if the extent of correction varies.

Hmmm..., actually these are keyframed - I often vary
these with time, setting multiple keyframes in clips in
Premiere... Shooting daylight interiors with available-light(often with tungsten added) results in
varying color balance and exposure quality with panning,
even with AWB and AE. Time-variable keyframed filters
in Premiere are handy for correcting this (as is
variable sharpening, though this requires a copy of
the clip on an SI track).

>For my current 2hr 20
>minute project (from 6 hours of source - 85G of it!), a 45 minute block in
>the middle needed extensive correction. I've cut it to 3 Digital8 masters -
>abandoned the rendering when I ran out of disk space (100G total
>available) - and ran the analogue output through a signal processor with
>some suitable controls set to a broad average. The VHS copies are very
>average!
>
>I'm still working out my strategy to address this - which source files I can
>now delete. Which temp files etc. The usual problems folks with 9G have!

I just finished a 2.5-hour extravaganza (4.5-hours source
material...). I find it best to split the project up, if
that is possible, with a fade to/from black deviding the
parts - assembly of these parts (mastered twice on mini-DV
tape for security and quality) is easy later when making
the copies. I did try this time mastering in LP mode since
the last 1.5-hours had no good splitting point, but I will
also master in normal mode for a safety back-up master
(which I should be doing right now, instead of writing
this...! ;-). This project also required about 45 minutes
of color correction - a dinner-and-shopping excursion (or
a bit of TV...) covers the time, then I save the rendered
files (the originals can be dumped, if desired...) - which
is another way around the "errant preview files" in
Premiere (just "solidify" the previews as new files...
[if one is REALLY bothered by Premiere files disappearing,
one can cut all parts to be rendered, render and save them
as new files, replace the old with these, and, voila!, no
disappearing/misplaced files! ;-]).