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importing from multiple folders/formats and insight into XDCAM EX clips importing
I am an experienced editor but just switched from FCP7 last week. I shoot and edit with multi cam formats all the time. My work flow is to copy media into separate folders for each camera for ease of media management. Please advise on the simplest and least confusing way to import multiple folders/formats from the hard drive.
And please help me understand how Premiere works with the wrappers of XDCAM EX. I can’t understand why the clips in my bin need to be named as individual clips (des10749_01 and des10749_02- see screen shot), if Premiere has already done the hard work of joining them into a single clip (which is duplicated 4 times!). I can see from my hard drive file structure that the individual clips (des10749_01 and des10749_02, etc) are recorded at different times and I know that the Sony EX3 records and wraps up the clips into approx 13.5min clips during long recordings. Cheers
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Premiere is not like FCP7. In FCP7, we had to transcode all the footage into a “normal” codec to avoid rendering in the timeline. Those days are gone. But it is still useful to name clips. There are a couple of ways to to that.
The thing to understand is there are a lot of metadata floating around, from the camera, from the media, from the various software packages (PP, AE, Audition, etc.). The computer is really good at keeping track of that stuff. It is called XMP data, in Adobe’s world.
That’s why it is always said in here “to import footage using the Media Browser” inside PP (and not by either importing or dragging and dropping). This is a noticeable change from FCP7. Media Browser creates an AVCHD package content file using metadata “stuff.” Once the media are in PP, the names can be changed. They even have a window setting for Metalogging, where you can add and view information about your clips.
The other workflow is to start with Prelude. When you use Prelude, it is more akin to the “Log and Transfer” interface we had back in FCP7. 9 out 10 times I use Media Browser. For projects with lots of footage and I know I only want some of it, then I use Prelude to cull through it all.
This just barely scratches surface of what’s available. But step 1 is the Media Browser.
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Thank-you, Richard. It’s so useful to have the comparison (FCP7 to PP) and the sage advice.
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