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Transcode 7d in CS5 – Yes or No?
Hi.
I’ve been round the houses a few times on this one and still I am not clear as to the best method to finish my projects.
I’ve edited the rushes in their native format with no issues at all in premiere CS5. Had no issues with lag or responsiveness. Now I am preparing to grade the show in Colorista 2.
What I am still unsure about, is whether to media manage the show and conform it all to neoscene for the grade or just grade in native 7d.
The arguments for the conform seem to be based around having 10 bit 422 files to play with, versus the 8 bit 420 of 7d. This of course makes sense even to me.. however.. I read and see a few folks describing this process as unnecessarily destructive as CS5 works in a ‘floating 32 bit’ environment and that i’ll gain nothing on the transcode to Neoscene.
Does anyone have a definitive answer for me?
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Converting from one source format to another does not help you to gain any additional color precision when working within Premiere Pro. If your original video is in an 8-bpc color space, converting that color information to a 10-bpc color space in the source video gains you nothing (and may lose some things).
(Of course, if you could’ve shot in higher color precision in the first place, that’s a whole other story.)
Karl and Jason deal with this here:
https://tv.adobe.com/watch/premiere-pro-cs5-feature-tour/staying-native-or-going-intermediate-transcoding-and-premiere-pro-cs5-/…and here:
https://blogs.adobe.com/VideoRoad/2010/06/color_subsampling_or_what_is_4.html———————————————————————————————————
Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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