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Best Way to Edit 1920 in Premiere?
Hi Guys,
I shoot a 7D and never film or edit in 1920 because my 4Gig laptop with Premiere pro cs4 has trouble handling it. Lots of Render Crashes and just painfully slow. so I always shoot 1280x 720 60 (pretty smooth)
I was told on another forum that it was possible to edit in “DVD” and then output to full 1920x 1080 to get around my weak computer problem.
I am not exactly sure what settings in Premiere CS4 will allow me to do this. Can someone list the initial settings in CS4 so that I can edit 1920 without crashing my system..and I suppose when i go to export I can just export full 1920?
or was that a myth?
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3 Replies
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If your files are H.264 wrapped in MOV you are unfortunaly out of luck. CS4 cannot handle them properly. This has been fixed in CS5.
Best is to convert files to something CS4 can handle like Cineform.
https://www.cineform.com/neoscene/
You mention proxy files. Sounds good but your final output will still be on the same pc, so nothing gained. -
Alright! thank you. I knew CS5 could handle it but I don’t have a 64 bit system so I could not use CS5 when i tried to install it (i am poor) 🙁
Cineform seems like the best idea , sucks that I have to convert footage (the old overnight conversion) but ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
-Thanks pa
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You could transcode your footage to the free AVID DNxHD codec. Works perfectly!
There is way to proxy-edit in Premiere. I had to edit a short film on a very slow machine running CS3, so I
1) transcoded all of the footage with MPEG Streamclip (freeware) to DV-files (don’t over-write your original files!).
2) I edited the film using the proxy-dv-files in a DV-project.
3) Then I created an HD project (XDCAM EX template) and imported the DV-project.
4) Set all of the DV-files to offline
5) relinked the clips to the original HD-MOVs
6) Exported the film in HD-res with the Media Encoder
If Premiere crashes during export, transcode the original files to the before mentioned free DNxHD codec (with appropriate settings) and relink to them.
HTH
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