• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Good intermediate format/codec for multiple systems?

  Posted by Matt Zeher on January 11, 2010 at 3:52 pm

  I have HDV footage in .m2t format, originally captured in Sony Vegas on a PC. However, I’m going to be editing this on a Mac, using Premiere Pro CS3. Basically, I’d like to transcode that footage into something reasonably friendly between the big three editing suites I have access to: Final Cut, Vegas, and Premiere, as well as After Effects (though that pretty much falls hand-in-hand with Premiere). Additionally, this should be a format that will work fine if I ever decide to bring the project into a Premiere instance that is installed on a Windows PC in the future.

  So that pretty much means Apple ProRes is out, though I have a feeling that doesn’t play nice with Premiere in the first place. Lagarith .avi won’t work either, since that doesn’t work with Quicktime-affiliated apps like Final Cut.

  Any suggestions? I know I can always work in uncompressed .avi, but it takes up tons of space, and is limiting on Macs since the Apple file system can’t handle large size files like the Windows NTFS system does.

  Ann Bens replied 16 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Ann Bens

  January 13, 2010 at 8:27 pm

  Have a look at Cineform NeoScene.

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