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Canon C300 footage into Premier Pro CC
VERY new to post production, I have MFX files shot on a Canon C300.
In Media Browser I clicked on the MFX files and Premier took them fine.
Is that all I have to do? Are the files automatically brought in at the highest resolution? No other steps?
Thanks,
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I have the C100, and have no problem using the MXF files in Premiere. However, if you are shooting progressive footage, Canon encodes progressive into the MXF file format in an odd way that confuses Premiere. After importing the MXF files into the Premiere project, right click on the clips (you can select them all and right-click just once), pick Modify, Interpret Footage, and force Premiere to use it as Progressive. Without doing this, Premiere will treat it as Interlaced, and you’ll get ugly aliasing artifacts.
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[dan jones] “Is that all I have to do?”
Nope. Now you have to edit and tell a good story 😉
[dan jones] “Are the files automatically brought in at the highest resolution?”
Yes. However, you have to drag the folder into the Project Pane, and I find it wise to right click a clip in the project pane and then choose “New Sequence From Clip” (or drag a clip into the new sequence icon), and that way all of the settings in the sequence exactly match up with your footage — you should see no red lines in the sequence. If they are yellow lines then, PP is saying “That’s an intense amount of processing, so you may want to change the Program settings to a lower resolution.”
Premiere Pro also has a fancy thing called Smart Rendering (worth googling for), but basically it means once footage is in the timeline, Render it, and then PP is smart to keep track of that render file so that when you make a cut or what not, you only have to render the missing info — not the entire friggin’ timeline. It also means that when you export the sequence, it has already done most of the processing and you gain efficiency.
[dan jones] “No other steps?”
Not really. But there is an export workflow worth investigating. For example, for every finished commercial I make I actually need 3 videos. I used Adobe Media Encoder to create a Watch Folder, and then I set three different video presets into the Watch Folder. And wow isn’t that cool. When the export finishes, AME auto-magically creates the other three videos.
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But how do i import a load of footage that are split in individual folders without crashing down my Premier Pro CC?
When i want to import all content with all those files kept in individual folders, Premier crashes down and shuts down unexpectedly. To avoid that, via Media Browser i access the content folder and individual folder where the video and other unknown files are and i import video file only individually. This is going to be head breaking when i’ll have loads of footage filmed with loads of those folders in the future.Is this the way it should be?
Thank you
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