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Best export settings for Canon T3i footage for editing
I’ve searched around a bit here for what settings to edit DSLR footage in (Premiere Pro CS6), and the consensus seems to be, “just leave it native,” which I totally understand. I’m wondering if that answer stays the same if I add a couple variables.
I have a Canon Rebel T3i, which I’m shooting a series of lengthy interviews on. I’m recording audio to a Zoom H4n. I need to cut down these interviews into short, creative vignettes.
Because of the FAT32 limitation, I had to start/stop recording several times during the interview.
That means on my timeline I now have several hunks of video and audio that aren’t nearly as clean as they would be if I had shot it in a continuous sequence with embedded audio.
I thought it might make my life a little easier to export the entire sequence to a single video file to edit from. But I want to make sure there is 0 loss of quality, even if the file size is a bit bigger.
Another issue is file management. I would like to keep the original footage safe on my Media raid, and have a redundant copy to edit from that will sit on my bus-powered USB 3.0 hard drive.
Any advice here? Should I deal with the cluttered timeline, or are there some good export settings you could suggest to do what I want?
Or maybe there’s a way to use Premiere that I wasn’t previously aware of that will help make my life a little easier.
(No FCP, so ProRes isn’t an option)
Thanks in advance for all your help.
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4 Replies
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Stan,
Save yourself the extra work of exporting and just nest your synced clips together. Highlight all video and audio, right click and nest. This will create a new sequence in your Project panel, and you can cut this like it is one long clip.
Obviously this does not address redundancy. You will need to perform a backup of your footage as well.
Cody Walters
Houston Video Production
Houston Wedding VideographerFinal Cut Studio 3
Adobe CS6 Master Suite
Panasonic HVX-200
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+1 to what Cody said….just nest it and move on.
Codec wise:
ProRes is a free download for your system (you have to be working on a Mac in order to write ProRes. Windows machines can only read ProRes, not write it).
https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1396?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_USIf you’re on a WIndows box (or even a Mac), DNxHD is a comparable codec to ProRes:
https://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/download/en423319?popup=true&NewLang=en&DocType=1450&q=dnxhd%20download&site=kbase&filter=0For archive DVCPRO HD is also an option for you. These codecs will maintain your quality level, but your file size footprint will increase substantially. Any of the above codecs will edit fine in PPro as well.
Ryan Holmes
http://www.ryanholmes.me
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In terms of the external hard drive – you can set it as your scratch disk and duplicate your footage there, keeping your archival footage safe on your raid drives, but having your project files on your main hard drive.
if I’m not mistaken, this improves performance as it allows pp to go directly to the the media data. Just be sure to have the hard drive connected when you run pp otherwise funky conforming problems start arising!
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Thank you all for your help.
Between Nesting and Project Managing, I think I was able to save myself a great deal of time and headaches.
Once again, I’m reminded why the Creative Cow community is the best.
Cheers!
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