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Codec information in the info window or anywhere in Premiere Pro?
Hi all,
I’m very new to Adobe Premiere Pro so pardon the newly question. I of course come from the Final Cut Pro world.
So one of the things I didn’t get was the level of information provided in the various info panels. I noticed that neither the file properties or info panels, display what kind of codec a particular video is when it’s in the project. Lets say I had some XDCAM files and some ProRes files that i’ve imported, and I look at the info on the files either through right clicking and selecting properties or selecting the file and then going to the info panel, it doesn’t ever display the actual codec in which the video is in. It usually says something like MPEG movie or Quicktime Movie, but it won’t get more detailed like it’s a “ProRes 422 file” or something like that.
Is there any place in Premiere where this information can be displayed? That’s something that I did like about FCP, is it’s transparent display of file attributes and how specific it gets down to what codec the file is encoded in, etc.
There’s got to be a place in Premiere that has that info, no? Please advise.Thanks!!
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Yup. 🙂
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Hi Peter,
I have exactly the same question (also coming from FCP). Where is the codec info found?
Thanks,
Ben.
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Hi Ben,
I’ve been discussing this in the Adobe Forum. Check out some of the info their: https://forums.adobe.com/message/4011265#4011265
Let me know what you think…
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Thanks for the link Peter, interesting discussion. I have already made the decision to switch over to Adobe and am in the process of doing so. Initially not having codec info was a little annoying (although you can just drag a clip down to the New Item icon and when the new sequence is created it will automatically match your clip settings, then go into your sequence settings and the codec will be displayed. You could then make a note of it in the Notes metadata column if necessary). Reading your other thread I agree that it probably isn’t as important as it was in FCP, and certainly not a reason to ignore Premiere, however I would like to have that info all the same. If I don’t need to use it great, but I’d rather that was by choice and not by force.
In general I am very happy with Premiere Pro and feel I have made the right choice in switching. It’s not that I am discounting Apple completely and perhaps X will become the software Apple claims it to be, but why wait for that when Adobe is offering a superior platform today? If X develops into something great I will pick it up then, but for now it’s Adobe for me. Incidentally I really like Media Composer as well however I work with people who, whilst not editors themselves, are required to do basic editing now and then and I feel they would struggle more with a switch to MC than to Premiere, hence the Adobe choice.
Ben.
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…you can just drag a clip down to the New Item icon and when the new sequence is created it will automatically match your clip settings, then go into your sequence settings and the codec will be displayed. You could then make a note of it in the Notes metadata column if necessary.
EDIT – Actually I’m not sure this is the case! When I tried this before the codec seems to automatically match but the field order was incorrect, which makes me doubt the codec now. Will need to do a couple more tests!
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