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Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, Canon 5dmkII bluray output
Hi,
I am considering whether to purchase either Sony Vegas Pro9 64bit or Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 for producing edited blu rays of my home movie footage from my Canon 5d mkII on my 3Ghz Core2Duo PC, 4gb ram. I have read all sorts of issues regarding editing with footage from this camera with both packages. I am hoping that the new Canon firmware upgrade (24p shooting mode) will resolve at least some of these. Nevertheless, I have downloaded the trial versions of both packages. Unfortuantely the Adobe version wont let me output a blu ray as far as I can tell (so not much of a trial 😉 ). The Sony software has let me burn a disc of some unedited footage from the camera. The result was quite pleasing. There didn’t seem to be any stuttering of the image so not sure if it is doing something automatically re. the 30 frame input file from the camera? Regardless of this, my main question is that the output options for burning files to bluray, in Adobe Premiere Pro, look impressive. Is it possible to maintain much or all of the quality of the canon input file (~38mbps) when burning to blu ray? My investigation of Sony Vegas has only managed 16mbps avc at the moment. Thoughts appreciated.Regards,
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Hi Chris,
The best workflow would be with an alternate codec for editing, and replace with original footage when you are done. A core 2 duo and H.264 HD don’t mix very well, sometimes, not at all. As far as quality goes, that should not be a problem.
The thing you do want to avoid is any permanent recompression untill the final Blu Ray render.
I recently included some 5d footage on a project to H.264 Blu ray (15Mb/s), and the results were simply stunning.
I let Encore do the encoding at max quality (get ready for a long render)
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
Ah, Vince you are so right the footage from the 5D is stunning even to tape, glad the blu-ray thing works too.
Freelance Imaging & Video
AUSTRALIA -
The trial version of CS4 is next to useless for High Definition and the Sony Vegas Pro 9 crashes????????????Could be my older Adobe specified computer for Premiere but, I would expect CS4 would be ok when purchased. I am still using 1.5.1 and it still does a very good job, although be it slow in rendering mov. clips from the Canon EOS 5 D Mark II which has been producing stunning video out of New Zealand and Egypt and Australia in the last 6 months, but, we Export High Definition to Tape only. If you want a round about way for editing , you could Export the timeline to Movie >open a new project> then edit ?, and a Cineform avi file will be produced.( it appears there is no loss of quality if you set the Cineform avi High Definition requirements correctly ).The mov files from the Canon are very large in 1920 x 1080 and slows the editing down as I know I must render using 1.5.1, but, you still have to render in Sony Vegas pro 9. The trial version of CS4 will not work in Australia in High Definition . I will change when we upgrade shortly
Freelance Imaging & Video
AUSTRALIA -
Chris,
Vince is right . We are in PAL land and we need to change the 30fps to 25 fps to Export to Tape via a Canon HV20 in the Clip/Speed Duration @84% and maintain pitch for sound box in Premiere and it does run very smoothly. You should not need to do this to blu-ray. I would not think?Freelance Imaging & Video
AUSTRALIA
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