Advantages to finishing in 4K??

[Erik Lindahl]

For Gone Girl they had the same workflow, sort of.

– Shot with RED DRAGON @6K
– Converted everything to DPX. This was their master / intermediate format they did VFX / finished in.
– For editorial, ProRes files from the DPX-files at roughly 2.5K was used.

Choosing an intermediate codec I’d say ProRes is you best pick if you’re OSX based. If not, Cineform is a decent runner up from the various tests I’ve seen. A film like Gone Girl used DPX yes but for most that’s crazy overkill.

From my experience, even with modern hardware, the overhead of “all native” isnt worth it IF you can afford a transcode workflow. It will eat some time on the front end and it will eat HDD space potentially but it does ease up thing from my experience.

Also be very careful about mixing frame rates. Yes, premiere handles mixed frame rates but the end result will look like garbage.

Scaling HD to UHD works decently in Premiere where After Effects really shines in terms of quality (with the side effect of longer rendering times).