• Adobe Premiere Pro

  XDCAM HD and XDCAM HD422 on same timeline?

  Posted by George Creasman on January 18, 2012 at 5:16 pm

  This may be a dumb question, but has anyone done this?
  We currently have an XDCAM HD (1440×1080) camera and are considering a new 800 series (true 1920×1080)…I know they have different presets in the new sequence drop down…but will the HD work in a HD 422 timeline?? I do not have access to any HD 422 footage or I would experiment myself.
  Thanks for any clarification.

  George Creasman replied 14 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Jeff Pulera

  January 18, 2012 at 5:30 pm

  Hi George,

  As Premiere pro CS5.5 is very flexible with mixed formats on the timeline, I see no issue. I would of course set the Sequence to the higher-quality of the two formats, at 1920×1080. Premiere will respect the pixel aspect ratio of the 1440 material and it will blend right in.

  On our demo systems, I mix all kinds of footage together – XDCAM EX, HDV, ProRes 422, AVCHD, DSLR, even RED 2K and 4K clips!!

  Jeff Pulera
  Safe Harbor Computers
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  George Creasman

  January 18, 2012 at 6:08 pm

  Thanks for the quick reply! …we are currently using CS5 with no plans of changing anytime soon…I’d love to get my hands on a few seconds of XDCAM HD 422 native (mxf) footage before I recommend it though…it’s company money that will be spent, not mine. So far the native HD files have worked well for us in PP and AFX.

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