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Best codec for AJA Kona LHi and Premiere Pro CS6
Hi all.
We need to slash time in post, so I bought a Roland VR-50HD HDMI/SDI video mixer. The plan is to capture uncompressed HDMI into an AJA Kona LHi video capture card, and then to disk. Then I send the capture to my editor, and he adds an intro, outro, lower thirds, bugs, music, etc., and then burns to Blu-Ray and DVD. (I can hypothetically add lower thirds and bugs in production, but I need to keep my focus on the presentation.)My question is, AJA gives me a choice of codec for capture:
8-bit YUV
10-bit YUV
8-bit RGBA
10-bit RGB
DV25
DV50
DVCProHD
HDV720p
HDV1080i
Prores422
ProRes422 (HQ)The goal is a clean Blu-Ray, and perfect online streaming. Capture cannot exceed 4GBps, due to the 6GBps limit on SATA3. I am basically a content provider who wears a lot of other hats, but does anyone know which codec will likely provide the best fit for our desired goal (Blu-Ray)? And are any of these formats not supported in Premiere Pro CS6, or After Effects?
Thank you,
Norman Willis
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6 Replies
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Pro Res would be better than DVCProHD. I would suggest that.
Eric-ADK
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Thank you. I appreciate that.
My editor believes there are still some bugs with ProRes and CS6. Is that accurate? Or have all of those bugs been worked out?Norman Willis
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Pro Res should be fine with CS6. What bugs are a concern?
Eric-ADK
Tech Manager
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The performance wasn’t as snappy with CS6 as it is with CC when using ProRes (playback/source of course) on Windows… I don’t know if the Mac platform had similar issues…
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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Till today I was working few times extensively with Prores LT and HQ from Mac platform (Premiere & AE / CS5.5 & CS6) – all nice and smooth. And as well I did some smaller projects with all Prores family from Cinec on Windows platform and haven’t got any problems except one behaviour of 444. During playback LT, 422 or HQ (system without gpu acceleration) CPU load was 20-40& which is ok, but for 444 was 70-90% so sometimes things got little choppy.
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