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Combining C300, C100 and GoPro Footage
I’m shooting a long term documentary and now have several terabytes of C300 (MXF), C100 (MTS) and GoPro (MOV) footage. I’m editing using Adobe Premiere Pro CC but I’m running into huge problems because the footage is so huge and so different. What I’d love to do is convert everything to some universal standard and then re-link the media later. I’m thinking of converting the footage to MOV and even downgrading it to standrad definition (480) to keep from using massive amounts of space. But I don’t know if this is as simple as it sounds, if it will relink easily later to the raw footage, and I have no idea what the best codec would be to convert to and then edit with premiere. Advice? Thoughts? Desperate to solve this problem, any and all help is hugely appreciated!
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[Samuel Miron] “I’m thinking of converting the footage to MOV”
You need to do some research…MOV is just simply a QUicktime movie. Just like AVI is a Windows format. It can be one of a dozen codecs. ProRes, DNxHD, H.264…yadda yadda yadda. So you need to figure out what CODEC you want to convert to.
[Samuel Miron] “and even downgrading it to standrad definition (480) to keep from using massive amounts of space.”
Uh…no. Why do this if you are shooting HD? Are you delivering SD? or want to deliver HD? Because Premiere doesn’t do the whole “offline/online” thing. It’s media management is not designed for that…the app isn’t designed for that. It’s designed for editing native. Either convert everything to ProRes, or ProRes LT (if you have anything FCP related on your system, you can do this), or to DNxHD. Oh, that that’ll use even MORE massive amounts of space. Editing native actually saves on space.
[Samuel Miron] “if it will relink easily later to the raw footage,”
Nope…not really. Again, not designed to do that. You might want to consider using Avid Media Composer, FCX…something that allows you do do this…transcode to a proxy format, and then relink to master formats later.
If you stick with Premiere…stay native. And then get things that make the system run smoother…more RAM, a graphics card that enables CUDA. Or, switch to another editor that does the offline/online workflow.
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[Shane Ross] “[Samuel Miron] “if it will relink easily later to the raw footage,”
Nope…not really. Again, not designed to do that. You might want to consider using Avid Media Composer, FCX…something that allows you do do this…transcode to a proxy format, and then relink to master formats later.
If you stick with Premiere…stay native. And then get things that make the system run smoother…more RAM, a graphics card that enables CUDA. Or, switch to another editor that does the offline/online workflow.
“Actually relink in PPRo CC is very good, if you kept the converted filenames the same as the original footage it would relink easily!
Steve Connor
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Ok cool, thanks for the input guys.
One of my big problems though is that I’m worried that I won’t be able to search through the footage quickly using the metadata. Even if it doesn’t crash and it just runs a little slowly because I have 5 terabytes of footage in the project, is there a software or method of searching and labeling through footage quickly? (Adobe Bridge doesn’t recognize these clip types).
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[Samuel Miron] ” I’m editing using Adobe Premiere Pro CC but I’m running into huge problems because the footage is so huge and so different. “
Sounds like a slow media array. We just finished a broadcast sizzle with C300, 7D, EX1, GoPro and Panasonic MTS files. Mixed it all together in single timelines and didn’t really have an issue. The GoPro footage does slow down the edit and folks have recommended converting the GoPro to ProRes or Cineform.
But in terms of throwing that all together, it does work. We run a Small Tree SAN with about 100TB running in the neighborhood of 350MB/s.
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I’m glad to know someone else has pulled it off! I’m not sure what you mean by slow media array though, what do you recommend?
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[Samuel Miron] “I’m glad to know someone else has pulled it off! I’m not sure what you mean by slow media array though, what do you recommend?”
What’s your data rate? As I said we run approx. 350MB/s. Data rate is everything when working with multiple formats. Slow media array will equal very poor performance.
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Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
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