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  Best Workflow for Alexa 2K (ProRes 444) with Adobe Premier Pro 2015.3

  Posted by Rachel Pearl on November 18, 2016 at 9:01 pm

  Hi,

  I’m cutting a feature using Alexa ProRes 444 footage and Premier. What is the best workflow for this arrangement?

  I have a mid-2012 MacBook Pro 2.6 with 8 GB Ram running Yosemite.

  Is it reasonable to cut natively or should I use a proxy workflow. We will be syncing and merging clips to cut with so they would have to be matched back laster if we use the proxy path.

  I have a faster imac that we could use but it’s running Sierra but I’ve been advised to stick with Yosemite for now.

  Thanks!
  Rachel

  John Pale replied 9 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  John Pale

  November 19, 2016 at 7:42 pm

  Definitely proxy workflow, it’s the whole reason why it exists.
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  Tero Ahlfors

  November 20, 2016 at 10:43 am

  If you have fast enough storage to use the original files there’s no need to use proxies. Prores isn’t that intensive codec.
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  John Pale

  November 20, 2016 at 3:05 pm

  She has a fairly slow Mac Book Pro with only 8GB of RAM. Might be fine for a small project, but performance will not be good on a feature film. I’m using a MacPro 2013 and performance can be sluggish with ProRes 4444. I’m not even sure if that model MBP has a qualified GPU for Mercury Engine acceleration. Sounds like a textbook case for using proxies to me.

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