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4K workflow suggestions, PC vs Mac and more
I’ve been a professional photographer for most of my working career, and want to start getting into video production. I recently purchased a GH4 so that I can experiment with capturing 4K video and downsample to 1080p. Being a newbie in the video world, I have a few questions. I am torn between two computers, both running Adobe CS6. I spend lots of time with my mac, because of the dual monitors and thunderbolt storage. That said, my PC has lots of horsepower, and I want to use the cuda capabilities with the video card to help with rendering
iMac (mid 2011) 3.4Ghz i7
32Gb ram
Radeon 6970M 2Gb
SSD drives
external SSDs (thunderbolt)
Thunderbolt display
OSX MavericksMachine #2
Custom PC
i7-3930K 6 core processor overclocked to 4.5ghz
32Gb ram
GTX 780, 3Gb, overclocked
4 Samsung 850 SSD in raid0
Windows 8.1 ProDoes anyone have any recommendations of the best workflow? I enjoy working on the mac, and was planning on taking files (via external thunderbolt drive) to my PC for rendering. Should I import from the GH4 and convert to any particular format before working in Premier? I have the ProRes codecs on the mac, but not DNxHD, as Premier CS6 is 64bit. On the PC, I don’t think I have either codec.
Any opinions/suggestions/etc are appreciated.
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4 Replies
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https://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/download/Avid-Codecs-LE-2-3-9
Download and install that on the Windows system. That will give you DNxHD Quicktime support with CS6. Pro Res is supported already for decoding. You just cant export Pro res on Windows without a 3rd party plugin or software.
Eric-ADK
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Thanks Eric
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Sounds like you’d rather edit on your Mac but look at the power of the PC as superior. If you want to stay on CS6 because of cost, then you pretty much understand the options and the Avid LE codec, while not ideal, is definitely usable.
If you want to move to CC, then ProRes is included on the Mac and native DNx is included on both Mac and PC. Plus you will be able to leverage the GPU card on your imac and get hardware acceleration.
Regardless, welcome to the world of video and good luck!
Dennis – Adobe guy
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Thanks Dennis.
I will likely stretch things out until I get comfortable with video workflow. Then I will look into a new mac pro and CC.
Until then… it’s a learning adventure!
Eric
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