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Ok, not a descriptive title, but there's multiple issues here.

Number 1: It appears my 5 year-old gaming video card is utterly inept at rendering video. But there may be more issues here as well. Here are my system specs:

ASUS Striker Extreme II MOBO
AMD Phenom II AMD 965 Quad Core
NvIdida GeForde 9800 GTX+ black (512MB)
Running Windows 7 on a 1 TB Western Digital SATA 3.0 Gb/s HDD
Have Photoshop CS6 and Lightroom 4 on a Toshiba 3TB SATA 3.0 Gb/s HDD

I can play the videos I upload just fine in various programs, but if I load it into CS6, it is going frame-by-frame almost.

Number 2: Adobe seems to have intentionally misled people into buying Photoshop CS6 with the understanding that they can edit video, but then decided to not support the Dolby audio format (Surprise! it's the format I'm using). I do not have the money to drop on Premier Pro and would really like to edit these videos using Photoshop CS6. Is there a way to force it to recognize the audio, or take the audio off of the video, reformat it, and then do it? If you know how to do this, please give me a step-by-step (like... painfully explicit with your directions).

Number 3: I'm recording 1080/60p HD video and uploading it through a USB onto my Toshiba HDD. However, once they upload, something happens to file and I get little parts in it where the speed increases greatly for about half a second. It's not just in the first instance of play. It is actually the file being changed at those spots for whatever reason. I have no idea what could be causing this. Ideas?

Number 4: WTF is the creative cloud and why would I want to pay $30 a month for it? Is it just a back up for your files? Or are there other benefits. I don't even have cable TV, so I doubt there'd be any reason I'd want to pay $30 a month for this

Number 5: I just picked up a Panasonic HC-V700M. The image quality is great, but I don't like how slowly it has to pan. Is there a setting that is making it have to pan slower? I'm trying to return it (just bought it) to the seller on ebay (14 day return policy) now that I know Adobe screwed the pooch and doesn't recognize the audio format for this camera. Do you have a camcorder you recommend in the $500 range? I know that's not a lot to work with, but it's all I can do right now. If not in the $500 range, then please give me a justification of a higher-priced ($1000ish) camcorder. It better be good because I'll likely be sleeping on the couch after she asks how much it cost.

I guess that's enough for now. I appreciate the help guys.
 
Photoshop is NOT for editing video, so I'm not sure why you believed this to be so. It is for still image manipulation and basic animation. This is why you are not seeing any audio when importing video to the timeline. You are right, Premiere is the suite that you'll need for this otherwise, depending on what you'd like to do, you could just use Windows Movie Maker which allows basic video editing.

As far as video cameras, I would recommend a DSLR which has video functionality they tend to be higher quality than camcorders and have the option of interchangeable lenses.

Also if you don't believe you can afford any package outright the have a look at renting: https://creative.adobe.com/plans
 
Photoshop CS6 has video editing...

Has every ability to play video, edit them, etc... but upon further research I found out the reason I couldn't hear anything was because Adobe didn't add a license for the Dolby format to Photoshop CS6.
 
My apologies. I didn't realize this was a feature that was added (just looked it up). Any idea when they started implementing video editing?
 
I want to say it started with CS5, but I'm not sure. Apparently CS6 has a lot more features. The recommendations from the "pros" is not to use it as a standalone if you're doing serious work.

This is just a hobby for me and from what I've seen, it should work just fine.

Any thoughts on my hardware?

Also, I already have a DSLR (no video capabilities) so I was trying to steer clear, but if they're better quality than what I'll get from a camcorder, I could always move to another Canon (so I can keep my lenses).
 
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IDK the answers for you. Other than going to a more specific forum, you could search video on the forum (or other related search terms), find someone who appears knowledgeable and PM them with your request. Just a thought.
 
I'm one of the most impatient people you'll probably ever meet. In the time between now and when I posted the thread, I returned photoshop cs6 to adobe, signed up for their creative cloud, returned the camera I had bought, ordered the 64 bit version of windows 7 and 8 more gigs of ram, and ordered a Canon vixia HF G10.

Just killing two birds with a hail of missile fire.
 
Photoshop will always be primarily an image editing software anything else they try to incorporate is never going to be the best in that field. Photoshop struggles to play 480p smoothly so true HD and audio is not going to come easily. I* read somewhere possibly a tweet from adobe, the video is meant for people with point and shoot cameras with the ability to shoot low resolution video. Which is basically your answer photoshop is not the right package for this job

30 day trial of premiere or after effects on the other hand will be a good start to see if your interested in that software, cheaper alternative would be sony vegas
 
I went ahead and joined the cloud. With the current discount on the student discount, it's only $20 a month for everything.

It will take a long time to reach the total cost of just premier this way and I have access to everything else. Glad someone told me about it. :)
 
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