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Edit In Low Quality – Export With High Quality
Hello,
I’m new to Premier Pro, and video editing in general, so apologies if this has already been discussed but I can’t find it if it has.
I was wondering if it is possible to edit using small/low quality versions (eg: DivX) of large/high quality (eg: DV) files, but then swap the high quality files back in when I do the final export.
This would keep my poor clapped out old PC responsive during the edit, but not compromise on the final quality of the movie.
I know there is a Replace With Clip function, but really I want to replace at file level, plus I think the clips have to be the same standard to use the replace function.
I’d be very grateful for any help on this.
Cheers.
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8 Replies
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The best help anyone can give you on this is really: don’t do it. Divx wasn’t designed for editing, nor were mpeg, wmv or any other distribution format. So it just won’t work properly, if at all. Just go with DV Avi.
By the way, i’ve worked with premiere on some pretty worn down pc’s (including my current one), and as long as you save regularly, you should be ok 🙂
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Thanks, thats encouraging- and my PC isn’t so bad!
While I do understand that editing with compressed formats might not be a good idea, what about working with low quality uncompressed versions (eg: 200×150 uncompressed AVI).
Wouldn’t that make for a more fluid editing experience? Or is it too difficult to swap source files like this in Premier Pro anway?
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Windows XP, Premiere Pro and Intel/AMD have all collaborated over the years to make editing DV easy on a PC. Editing Highly compressed or small resolution source material will be problematic. Go with the flow.
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Mr Goohan,
What you’re describing is the offline-online process, and
PPro is as good as any other edit-suite for it. As Adobe
were quick to point out, some of the rushes from the last
Superman film were ingested into PPro for offline editing.There is a little bit of studying to do, though, before you
get started, because, to understand offline-online, you also
need to understand Timecode (TCR), Edit Decision List (EDL)
and, eventually, Batch Capturing.PPro’s Help is stacked with info. Open Help and do a Search
for ‘Offline’ and ‘EDL’. What you’ll learn there will stand
you in good stead for any pro edit-suite in the future.Darren.
x-gf.com
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Thank you, that was just what I was looking for.
I will start by editing the raw DV files, which will be MXF’s from a Panasonic HVX200, so I hope the promised MXF update comes out soon- and works!
If that proves too slow, its good to know I’ve got the option to do the offline-online process in PP.
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Which version of PPro are you using, by the way, because the
‘offline’ info available upto ver. 1.5. is not particularly
useful; you tend to go around and around in circles when
reading it.D.
x-gf.com
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I’m using CS3, so hopefully the documentation will be clear enough.
It helps just knowing what the process is called!
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‘Online’ is universally thought of as the process of bringing
everything together and/or replacing footage etc for the final
edit, but there’s another definition of ‘online’ too – used by
friends of mine at the BBC, anyway.An online editor is also someone responsible for pulling
together replys and montage sequences etc. which are quickly
required during, for example, a live sports program. In the
BBC’s case, usually on a Quantel suite.Learning off-/online is now mandatory with HDV becoming
affordable. Although, media/asset management – which
is what it is all about, really (film, music, CG,
HD) – is evolving quite quickly, and affordable
render farms will also change the face of off-/online.D.
x-gf.com
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