Does anyone use Prelude?

[Alex Udell]

Adobe’s adding a new component to it called Prelude Live logger for metadata capture via ipad.

So I think it’s got some legs to it….

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX

[Paul Neumann]

I’ve been using Prelude alot recently on a string of 2 camera interview/testimonials. It works as advertised and has been very helpful. It’s not hard to learn and the improvements coming next month answer any issues I have with it right now. Very easy to cut/log shots and have that data follow the clip around for whenever you need it. Build a rough cut with your new clips and then have the whole thing open up as a properly set up sequence in PPro. Very helpful. Leave the editor, cut a new clip, one click send to PPro and there it is.

You can do all this without transcoding a thing. If you do need to transcode there are so many options to create different versions, send them to separate and different places and have them renamed to what you prefer while it’s being done. Excellent integration with AME.

[Sam Lanes]

I tried it out for the first time a very short project last week.

I have never really enjoyed trying to log clips using Premiere and at the last minute decided to try Prelude. I thought it was brilliant for my purposes for this project.

I just wanted a way of going over the footage that I had, rename and update the metadata for it. However, I soon discovered the ease of creating and naming subclips, which considering I was filming an event and had many clips of the camera just ‘rolling’, it made much more sense to try and break down these longer clips for ease of use in cutting the project together.

I didn’t make a rough cut in PL; once I had the clips all properly sub-clipped and labelled, it was a doddle to quickly find what I was looking for to put together a rough timeline in Premiere.

Very intuitive, and very useful. Larry Jordan has discussed it on a few occasions in his blog:

https://www.larryjordan.biz/first-look-adobe-prelude-cs6/

My advice would be to just try it. Its very straightforward, so just import some footage and see what it can do!

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[Kevin Reiner]

I have yet to use it to log, but I do use it to copy media from field hard drive to my storage drives using the bit to bit comparison feature. Works well. The logging looks interesting, just haven’t taken a crack at it yet.

-Kevin

Mac Pro 2 x 3 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon
32GB Memory
Dual-channel 4Gb Fibre Channel PCI Express card
Dell Display (23″ flat panel)
Nvidia Quadro 4000
AJA Kona LSi SD/HD capture card
Rourke 16 TB
Flanders 2460

SOFTWARE
Mac OS X 10.8.4
FCP 7
Premiere CC
After Effects CC
Boris Continuum
Sapphire Plug Ins
All Trapcode Plugs
Zaxwerks Invig

[Gene Weglarz]

Thanks for the feedback. I’ll give it a shot. I do two and three camera shoots, so maybe it will help catalog and give me a rough cut.

[Trevor Ward]

Kevin,

I’m about to try this. I’m a tiny bit nervous. But essentially I’m recording onto a Hyperdeck Shuttle into ProRes files. I would like to plug the SSD into my computer and then make two copies of the files onto two separate hard drives (one copy to each drive, I want mirror copies without having a RAID 1). I like the idea of having a checksum or some verification because using Finder to copy sometimes doesn’t work. I also like the idea of being able to name the clips.

– Can I do all these things?
– Is there any chance of deleting files off the SSD during the copy process?

-Trevor Ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyefilmco.com
Orlando, FL

[Kevin Reiner]

Yes, you should be able to do all of that. That is pretty much my workflow. Essentially, you’re doing a manual SATA 1.

In Prelude you want to:

1. Start a new project.
2. Click ingest
3. Find your SDD in left column
4. Then in the right hand “transfer” panel click the box and choose your primary destination.
5. Make sure transcode is unchecked so that you’re making an exact duplicate of the footage.
6. select “bit-by-bit” for ultimate security.
7. Click “add destination” to choose your 2nd drive.

You could even add a 3rd destination to make proxy files for other purposes. I’ve never had issues with my original data being changed.

Good luck,
Kevin

Mac Pro 2 x 3 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon
32GB Memory
Dual-channel 4Gb Fibre Channel PCI Express card
Dell Display (23″ flat panel)
Nvidia Quadro 4000
AJA Kona LSi SD/HD capture card
Rourke 16 TB
Flanders 2460

SOFTWARE
Mac OS X 10.8.4
FCP 7
Premiere CC
After Effects CC
Boris Continuum
Sapphire Plug Ins
All Trapcode Plugs
Zaxwerks Invig

[Gene Weglarz]

Thanks for the advice. I’m doing a four camera cooking show shoot this week, so I’ll try it there. One camera is an XH A1 and is tape, so I’ll have to ingest the tape through NeoScene, PPRO, or Handbrake. And then ingest the clips into Prelude.