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CS6 and editing codecs
This concerns editing codecs for Premiere Pro CS6.
In CS6 when are you using native codecs to edit or transcoding?
It would be great to hear of your experiences on your particular systems.I have just started to work with CS 6, I had a little experience with CS 5.5, and already the playback seems much better on a Mac Quad Core tower with 16 GB RAM. Especially now I have an NVIDIA card as well.
With the three MPEG compressed formats I encounter, the order of playback smoothness/quality (best to worse) is: XDCAM, H.264, AVCHD.
I have read that using Quicktime files will automatically reduce Premiere playback to a 32 bit application (because it uses Quicktime 7 I presume). Is it therefore better to use XDCAM in it’s MP4 format rather than MOV format from JVC cameras?
Does transcoding to ProRes on a MAC help with multi-format sequences, especially if there is AVCHD in the mix?
Thanks for the input.
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I have 2 macpro octocore editing systems with 16gb of ram running 10.6.8
with CS 6, quadro 4000 cards and Raid 5 disk arrays.Since I switched over from fcp, I have never had the need to transcode anything.
I’ve mixed: AVCHD (sony nxcam), sony F65, Red .r3d and canon dslr h.264 files
It plays smooth as butter literally.
I’ve not yet done anything in xdcam and have heard some people having issues.
If you have a fairly new (2009 or newer) system with lots of ram, a CUDA supported
card, and a fast RAID of some kind, the results seem to be good. -
That’s my system. Except that I use an internal RAID 0.
I’m working in a University and a lot of students will be working
from Firewire 800 drives. But not if they are working with Red files!
They have the option to work from the internal RAID for effects heavy/layered sequences or with 2K and 4K files.That was very positive! So far, my short experience has been much the same as yours. Except I’m not working with RED files.
Anyone else?
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Hi Chris, you were able to import native F65 footage in Premiere CS6? I am trying to do this now and it doesn’t seem to ingest natively for me and I can’t track down any plugins. Can you please take me though your process? I’m using a mac pro 12core OSX 10.7.3
Thank you!
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