Need help getting HD-ready with Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5

[beckmen]

I am trying to get in a place where I can edit in HD. I have access for a HD CMOS camera, which I am pretty sure shoots in h264. Don't even really know where to start.

[aedipuss]

you could at least move up to creative suite 2. adobe shut down the activation servers for it and released serials so it's basically now free.
http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html

cs 1.5 didn't have much in the way of support for hd, cs 2 adds quite a lot.

[poisondeathray]

h264 support wasn't added until CS4

You can use a digital intermediate like cineform (go pro cineform studio is the free version)

[beckmen]

you could at least move up to creative suite 2. adobe shut down the activation servers for it and released serials so it's basically now free.
http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html

cs 1.5 didn't have much in the way of support for hd, cs 2 adds quite a lot.

Whoa. I am definitely going to try this, thanks.

[beckmen]

Well after a few days of tinkering, I have failed. CS2 doesn't do AVCHD, my other attempts have failed. I might have to edit at work (off the clock) or possibly rent an HDV camera that I can capture into CS2 via FireWire.