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C100 workflow…
Hi, I’m slightly confused/brain fried after a long day!!!
Ive imported a huge shoot via the Data Import Utility after reading that it puts all the clips together… I watched a tutorial on it and either got something wrong (not much u can actually do with the supplied data utility software) or something else happened.
Once I had put them through the Data Import Utility I just Imported the clips into a bin in PP. I realised they wouldnt have merged together but I tried the import anyway and they have come in in a different order to which they were shot…
What is a better workflow option to 1: have the clips as one clip and 2: have them in order?
Many thanks for your help…
dale
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You can view by timecode and this will be in the order of shot.
Top of the bin…Chris
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It sounds like you’re perhaps importing the original clips off the card, instead of the combined clips generated by the C100 utility?
At any rate, I usually just copy the MTS files off the card (I think they are MTS….) and use them directly as opposed to using the utility, and assemble them together in their own sequence to get one complete clip to use in the larger project. I archive my projects to optical disc, and having smaller segments to write to disc makes life a little easier for me.
One thing to note on a different topic — I’ve run into issues with Premiere getting confused with long clips from the C100, where it doesn’t update the timeline when you play the sequence, and eventually just puts a red screen up in the preview window. I’ve had to convert the footage to the Cineform codec to get around this.
You also need to force Premiere to interpret 30P footage from a C100 as 30P — by default it sees it as 60i, and you get interlacing artifacts. (in case you’ve not run into this yet…)
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Thanks James for the info! Much like you, I just bypassed the standard utility and transcoded my files to the DNxHD wrapper. I’m wondering if I should try the Cineform and see if there is an improvement. I also think that I need to check the 30P setting, so thanks for posting that info.
I’m working with a company where I am setting up their workflow for them, do you have any suggestions to codec settings for final exports? I’m using h.264 now because some of the files have to be uploaded to a service that has a 250mb max, what do you use?
Great info!
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