On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 23:24:54 -0900, "Bruce L. Nelson" wrote:

>My first video is almost ready to go, I hope.
>
>I'm using Premiere, and today I was previewing the whole project full screen
>by using "Print to Video" and ran into some problems with my system getting
>overloaded in some way.
>
>I've got all my video (only) on the "d" drive (29 gigs used and 15 free) and
>the system and Premiere, etc on the "c" drive.
>
>Would it help me out (and would there be any disadvantage) if I "exported to
>tape" maybe 1/4 of the video at a time and then imported it back into the
>timeline?
>
>I've got a relatively small number of transitions, with titles at the
>beginning and end, and multiple soundtracks in some places.
>
>I was under the impression that mini-DV tapes only come in a 60 min.
>version, but saw reference to an 83 min. tape. Presumably for a 75 min
>video I would want to send it to the duplication service recorded on one of
>the 83 min. tapes? Right now I've got plenty of 60 min. tapes, would it be
>a big hassle to the duplication service if I sent it split between two 60
>min tapes?
>
>Dell Dimension PIII 450
>Windows 98
>128 Ram
>Video goes on slave drive IBM 7200
>16 meg Riva tnt video card, latest driver
>Raptor 2.01 with latest driver
>Premiere 5.1c
>DirectX 8

Since you have the Raptor card, the easiest way to send
the video out is to render everything first (preferably with
preview files in a dedicated drive partition, but just on
"C" works well if you wipe all the previews out in Premiere,
defrag the "C" drive, then build all the previews at once,
for safety), then start the camcorder in record mode
connected to the Raptor with FireWire cord, and hit the
"Enter" key (with the work-area bar over the entire video
to be exported) - it should then play to tape faultlessly
whatever length you can record. You can master in LP mode
(make a couple of masters, for safety...) for 93 minutes,
or, if this will not cause you to mix tape brands (!!!),
you can use the long Panasonic tapes (Sony makes them, but
I have not seen them available here [US], unfortunately...).