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editing h.264
We recently started receiving h.264 720×480 video files rather than the DVR-video or AVI files that are requested. Oh bother.
You can easily import the file into a DV CS4 project. My question is, should I be using a different sequence setting for editing h.264, such as a Desktop custom? in other words, does the presence of a h.264 video in a DV 720×480 sequence alter the h.264 video, such as by trying to play it as interlaced when it is not. Or likewise, does Premiere keep it native until you export into some other format?
I know you can mix formats on a sequence, just wanted to see if anyone had anything to say about h.264.
Thanks
Mike Cohen
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4 Replies
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Always make a sequence that matches your footage.
If there is no preset go through Desktop. -
any time you preview render, the H.264 will have to be transcoded to whatever render format you’ve specified…that might take some time.
If you principally edit DV and the H264 stuff is infrequent, I’d continue to edit in DV.
If the sequence is interlace, whatever comes in is forced into the sequence’s settings.
If you’re a purist (I tend to waffle between an advocate of the technical arts and “get it done and out of here”…), you might consider setting up an uncompressed timeline in the pixel size you need. You can do 720×480 .9 PAR uncompressed if you want to, then all the video is simply read for what it is without the sequence attempting to convert it. On a strong enough machine, you may not have to render before previewing.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions, -
If its from a Canon 5D mark II H264 mov , we render the clips on the timeline before editing, somtimes it takes a while but, it does run very smoothly in the end.The resultant export of 1920x 1080 is very, very, good.
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the computer specs that i am woking on
Windows 7 professional 64 bits
Intel® Core™ i7 processors
8 GB of RAM
1 tera RAID drive (2 hard drives 7200 rpm)
Nvidia Geforce 285 GTXi found some solutions to work with H.264 file on some forums
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/3/900429i tried the solutions to work with cineform and convert the files but it didn’t work because it said is not a compatible file, converting to DV AVI format is still being slow for playback.
The software that came with the camera TOTALMEDIA EXTREME2 has an editor on it and the it has real playback on real time but the editor is so basic and i need to make a music video and professional edits and effects, how can i see real playback on premiere with this files
i upload one file so you can download to see if that works in your computer and hope get a solution to get edit this videos
https://www.mediafire.com/?3724jwboge48kms
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