• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Is it better to work with uncompressed video in Premier?

  Posted by Dave Mann on August 2, 2009 at 1:40 pm

  I am new to the video editing world.I was just wondering what are the advantages of working with uncompressed video files?

  Jeff Pulera replied 16 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Yosep Sugiarto

  August 2, 2009 at 2:46 pm

  hi dave, if you are using adobe premiere without any other hardware such as matrox, or blackmagic, etc. the advantages of using raw / uncompressed material are:

  1. When you place the footage into timeline, you don’t have to render preview when you want to watch it… but if you put any effect on it probably you will start to have preview render it..
  2. Most of the software for editing works easily with the uncompress video material. If you have any compressed material sometimes it works with SOME video editing software and SOME are not working…
  3. The quality itself is better! [depending what are you comparing with!?]

  Those are the reason I knew… I could tell you more but basically the uncompressed files alias RAW video material is better…

  Joe
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  Jeff Pulera

  August 4, 2009 at 4:30 pm

  What is your video source? ALL video recorded to digital video cameras is already compressed, whether DV, HDV, XDCAM EX, MPEG-4 (AVC), etc.

  Uncompressed video files are very large and can bog down the system, and also require fast, expensive hard drive arrays to play back smoothly at the needed data rate.

  If you have something like an AJA or Blackmagic card that will capture to uncompressed video, and have a system to handle it, AND are doing some sort of high-end work for broadcast, then uncompressed editing is an option. For hobby, wedding, event, and most corporate work, uncompressed is overkill.

  Jeff Pulera
  Safe Harbor Computers

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