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DVCPRO HD on Premiere?
We are a pretty well established Premiere Pro shop. We have some interest in the Panasonic AG-HVX200 camera for doing some HD acquisition. What kind of a workflow would we need in order to edit the DVCPRO HD clips that are recorded on either the P2 cards or an external Firestore device on a Premiere Pro timeline?
I know there is the Matrox Axio, but it’s out of our price range.
I know that you can’t just drag the DVCPRO HD files from the Firestore into the Premiere Timeline.
We would like to use the Cineform codec with Premiere, but how would we convert DVCPRO HD into Cineform? Is that even worth while?
Can we play the HD media off the camera and bring it in over firewire for ingest into Premiere into the Cineform codec?
Is it possible to playback the files off the camera or the Firestore and somehow convert it into an HD-SDI signal for ingest into a Premiere workstation with an HD-SDI capture card?
Thanks!
Jeremy -
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It’s my understanding that you will need to convert the files on the P2 card to some sort of AVI flavor, probably using a Firestore DV File Converter program or similar. Cineform offers an HDLink utility that converts HDV footage in M2V format to a Cineform AVI, so I’m guessing they will eventually support DVCPRO HD or come up with a similar product to do a data conversion of DVCPRO HD to the Cineform AVI codec.
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One potential solution is DVFilm Raylight, at http://www.dvfilm.com. It converts the native .MXF files into a reference .AVI using their proprietary DVCPRO-HD compatible codec. There’s a partially-working free trial version (partial because it only supports some versions of 1080 at the current time, no versions of 720 yet, although all will be supported by the time it’s released).
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