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Importing different formats on the new adobe premier pro cs6 timeline?
Hello
I just moved from fcp 7 premiere pro cs6 with creative cloud. I love it so far, however my main reason for the move to pr pro was its ability to handle different formats on the timeline without having to transcode.
I did a test yesterday with sony ex3,go pro,and canon dslr footage.
After dropping in the first clip to the timeline, the rest of the clips like go pro shots. I needed to click “scale to frame size” to be able to view them properly on the record side.
This doesn’t seem right to me? Do i need to do this every time “for ever”?
I also exported some of the footage and I’m just not confident I’m getting the most out of my footage. Sony ex3 footage seems to be a bit jumpy and the go pro shots where all interlaced.
I very eager to get into all the cool stuff but i don’t want to go any further until I’m confident about import and export.
My question is. What does everybody else do?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Kind regards
Philip
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When you’re mixing and matching formats and especially frame sizes and frame rates, there are compromises. You can’t just mix a whole bunch of stuff together and expect it all to look perfect.
Sounds like you’re mixing frame sizes and progressive / interlaced.
You set the Sequence for your primary format and then you can drop anything else in. How those other formats render / transfer to your final product depend on what you’re starting with. We mix 1080, 720 together all the time. When it comes to mixing in some SD, we use the AJA Kona boards to convert those to HD via hardware first and then bring them in.
When mixing Interlaced into a progressive timeline, that can cause some issues as well.
Also make sure you’re using “Maximum Render Quality” when making your final outputs.
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Does GoPro even record interlaced?
If your sequence in 1080p/i then your 720p material will have to be scaled up…you can set up PPro to do this automatically in preferences if you prefer.
If the timeline is 1080i29.97 and you toss some 720p59.94 GoPro footage on there…it may appear interlaced as it will likely try to map each 59.94 frame to a 29.97 field.
As Walter mentioned, you can mix anything you want together and PPro will play it, but you have to know something about all the types of footage you’re starting with so you can decide on the best common image dimension/frame rate to work with…
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