• Adobe Premiere Pro

  How to capture in ProRes using Cineform ?

  Posted by Melvin Chong on March 20, 2017 at 2:37 am

  Hi has anyone captured video in Cineform codec with any success ? I have a BMD 4K Intensity Pro and only MJpeg and Uncompressed showed up as available codecs.

  Jeff Pulera replied 9 years, 1 month ago 4 Members · 9 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  March 20, 2017 at 6:46 am

  Mac or PC? Did you install the Cineform codec? I think that GoPro makes it now.

  Shane
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  Melvin Chong

  March 20, 2017 at 7:30 am

  Thanks for replying. Sorry a big typo there on the title. I meant how to capture in Premiere Pro using Cineform codec.

  I had installed Quik that comes with GoPro Studio and copied the necessary Cineform plugins to PPro plugins directory but it still doesn’t show up in the capture settings.

  My intention is to capture directly from camera to PPro, bypassing the camera’s 4:2:0 awful codec.
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  Shane Ross

  March 20, 2017 at 7:48 am

  Cineform might not be a “real time” capture codec. Meaning, not meant for instant encoding from video source. It might only be a codec you can transcode to. Just a guess.

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  Melvin Chong

  March 20, 2017 at 8:39 am

  Before GoPro acquire it, there were various flavors of cineform capture software that you can record to directly. You can find them below :

  https://cineform.com/legacy-downloads

  Sony Vegas allowed capture to cineform directly before Magix acquire it.
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  Ole Kristiansen

  March 20, 2017 at 10:22 am

  Yes, I remember Neoscene!

  https://cineform.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/206528016-HDMI-Capture-Using-the-Blackmagic-Intensity-Card
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  Melvin Chong

  March 20, 2017 at 1:05 pm

  Hi Ole,

  I downloaded the Neo trial and it sees my BMD Intensity Pro card but there is no video preview. If I remembered correctly, previous versions of Premiere allowed the user to chose whatever capture codec but now it seems impossible.

  What’s the point of bragging about having native Cineform support if it can’t even capture with it ?
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  Jeff Pulera

  March 20, 2017 at 2:47 pm

  So what’s the problem with capturing using the Black Magic M-JPEG 4:2:2 codec?

  Thanks

  Jeff
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  Melvin Chong

  March 20, 2017 at 3:01 pm

  I prefer editing with Cineform. M-Jpeg is too archaic, quality cannot be adjusted and no alpha-channel support.
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  Jeff Pulera

  March 20, 2017 at 5:38 pm

  Well, you don’t capture with alpha channel – you can certainly use Cineform for previews, intermediates, exports. Just not capture.

  Capture using what Black Magic offers, and if you must, transcode to Cineform before editing then. Black Magic source clips and Cineform renders can be mixed in the timeline.

  Thanks

  Jeff

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