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EUREKA – How To Make Premiere Export Quickly Like FCP 7 Used To
EUREKA – How To Make Premiere Export Quickly Like FCP 7 Used To
I have the solution. I hope it makes you as happy as it does me.
1. Get Premiere Pro CC
2. Select the sequence preset for DNX220X
2a. Make sure the preview file format is set to DNX220X, but you shouldn’t have to do that manually as the preset is already configured
2b. Go to the radio button for “use maximum render quality” for preview files and turn that on
3. Edit using this sequence…using any format of source material
4. Render as you go, overnight, etc. during the course of the project – this creates “preview files” in the DNX220X MXF format…which WILL facilitate your final output, whereas creating “preview files” in some other formats WILL NOT facilitate the final output
5. Your “preview files” will be created in mastering quality and will serve in the same capacity as your full-quality “render files” used to within FCP7, helping you for a faster export when the time comes, and without any quality loss, because when you export the master output, it will not re-transcode the render files…instead, it will do like FCP7 used to…if your sequence was already rendered, it would just essentially “copy” the data, rather than recalculating everything
5a. Assuming you’re locked and everything has been rendered and you’re ready to output with nothing but a green bar atop the timeline….
6. Choose export media
7. select “match sequence settings”
8. select “use maximum render quality”
9. select “use previews”
10. jump around because you’re so happy…as you watch the progress bar move about 80% faster than the last time you exported a sequenceThe output will occur in approximately 20% of the duration of your sequence’s total time. This output will be of the DNXHD220X codec and MXF file type. It looks excellent and solves a huge problem.
The gamma and color space translation is flawless, even though my test contained a mixed bag of source media in the timeline (including MTS, M2TS, ProResHQ QuickTime, XDCAMHD QucikTime, Animation QuickTime and MXF). There was no gamma shift or color shift, period. No banding either. All the waveforms matched perfectly when comparing the source elements to the DNX220X MXF output, using a Blackmagic DeckLink Studio feeding HDSDI to a TVLOGIC LQM-241W monitor with the built-in hardware scopes. Outstanding.
Now, all of you FCP7 folks can carry on as though you were using FCP7…in that you can render overnight as you go, and have those render files help save you time when exporting the master.
Thank you Adobe for a fantastic Premiere Pro upgrade in Premiere Pro CC. You knocked it out of the park with this one.
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A number of other formats are also supported for “Smart rendering” like this:
DV
DVCProHD
AVC-Intra
XDCAM
XDCAM-EX
XDCAM-HD
ProRes in MOV (Mac only)
Animation in MOV(Mac only)
DNxHD in both MXF and MOVMore information at Dennis Radeke’s blog:
https://blogs.adobe.com/genesisproject/2013/05/premiere-pro-cc-for-broadcasters.htmlWalter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Sean Ian MacGowan] ” You knocked it out of the park with this one.”
They did indeed.
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I think a similar approach will work in CS6, as well. May not be quite as elegant.
Nat Ives
Manager & Lab Instructor
Communication & Media Studies Production Center
University of Southern Maine
Portland, ME
ives@maine.edu
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Could the workflow that was mentioned by Sean be also used for a HDV sequence ?
It seems to me that the success of this method lies in rendering every time possible, overnight etc. which makes preview files that will be ready when time for export comes around.
motion pictures + storytelling = ?
-> FILMMAKING !
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