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Importing DVCPRO25 in PPro 1.5
We use DVCPRO25 for all news broadcast material, and we have never had any problem with opening the DIF files in either QT Pro or After Effects as long as we name the files with the “.dv” extension.
This doesn’t work at all in Premiere Pro 1.5, no matter if we name the files with .dv or .dif extensions, I still get a “File format not supported” when I import. Google searches and reading of the online manuals have so far produced nothing.
Surely PPro must support importing of DVCPRO25, I mean the codec even ships with QuickTime! My Avid collegues are having a field day with this, please help me shut them up! 🙂
Thanks in advance,
Jonas Hummelstrand
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I can import dvcpro directly over firewire into Premiere and then edit it, but it’s converting it to regular DV, which is no big deal. What is a .dif file? What exactly is your workflow? Why are you importing it into another program before Premiere? It usually start there and then goes into AE and back to Premiere for output. You can try here if you want to edit native :
http://www.mainconcept.com/products.shtml
Steve
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One of the issues is going to be Quicktime…PPro is a DirectX based animal these days.
PPro on a Windows machine wants to see a “.mov” extension on a Quicktime file or an “.avi” extension on a Video for Windows file.
To edit the stuff with any speed, you’d want to convert the footage to an .avi file. This would also necessitate moving to YUV DV used in PPro.
Ingesting into your system from the deck would certainly help, DVCPro isn’t big on FireWire connectors, but Convergent Design has a very good box called “SD Connect” that will connect to the computer via FW and give you analog/component/SDI I/O.
Sorry about your Avid friends…once the footage is in your machine, try removing an audio click with “Audio Units” set on the timeline so you can edit audio sample by sample…then have them show you what they can do.
TimK
Kolb Syverson Communications
Creative Cow Host
2004, 2005 NAB Post Production Conference Premiere Pro Technical Chair
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
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To clarify: I can’t import DVCPRO25 _files_ into PPro1.5. Since we produce over 50 hours of DVCPRO25 footage every day, I’m only interested in solutions that will let me import the file directly via the file system without prior format convertion or going via a camera.
Since After Effects can open these files with the extension “.DV”, I was totally surprised when PPro 1.5 couldn’t.
/Jonas Hummelstrand
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[Jonas Hummelstrand] “I’m only interested in solutions that will let me import the file directly via the file system without prior format convertion or going via a camera”
The Matrox Card and its drivers support the import of DVCPRO25 (not DVCPRO50) clips in Premiere 1.5, where they function exactly like any other DirectShow (Matrox AVI or Microsoft DV-NTSC (or PAL)) clips in term of RT properties in editing.
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So I guess that means that PPro 1.5 _doesn’t_ support DVCPRO25 natively? 🙁
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