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Transferring HD footage from CS3 to Avid
Hello everyone,
I need some help. The company that I am editing for uses an Avid HD
system and I work on Premier CS3. I need to find a compression setting that will maintain the quality yet not require one entire TB of space when I export the sequence to one of their external harddrives. The last sequence I sent them was just 29 minutes long and when it was done exporting it, it showed 290 gb. I have sent them Matrox Avi files, Microsoft Avi files, but they cannot open them. Everything we film is on PMW EX1 and is shot 1080.I have talked to their IT guys but they are not familar with Adobe CS3.
Someone please shed some light on this long dark subject.
Thank you.
Keith Beam
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5 Replies
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did you edit with the EX native MXF project setting?
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,CPO, Digieffects
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I don’t if you are using MXF, for my DVCPRODHD projects are use the avid 1×1 codec – results in about a 2 to 1 import time.
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My thought was if the original project was edited natively in PPro, you could trim it down to cut down on how much import time you need in Avid…
PPro doesn’t convert it, it just edits it, so technically the media should come across to Avid as import-able MXF…(this is my theory anyway, I’ve not tried this).
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,CPO, Digieffects
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incidentally how is the realtime playback of MXF files (P2 or EX1) in Premiere? Do those formats take as much juice as HDV and AVCHD to playback smoothly?
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I’ve been editing P2 for some time on a dual-proc/dual core Opteron…seems fine.
Any temporally compressed format will take a bit more juice of course…HDV takes some processor muscle (it handles fine for me…), and AVCHD being even more complex, takes even more processor muscle…(I have not personally worked with AVCHD, so no first-hand experience there…)
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,CPO, Digieffects
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