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Exporting to ProRes in PP CS6 ?
Looking for some advice in dealing with ProRes on Windows 7 CS6 setup.
My first prores 422HQ (1920×1080 24 fps) with 48000 hz 24 bit clips project.
The audio was recorded separately (5 tracks of audio). Once video and audio are synched, it all plays back great but the clips themselves are too long (a lot of excessive footage).What am I trying to figure how to do – I’d like to take each clip into PP. Then drop the 5 tracks of audio under the Prores video clip. Sync it. Shorten the excess of the Video clip to make the overall clip smaller.
Then Export as a new shorter Prores 422 HQ clip with 5 channels of audio attached for editing. Sounds simple but it hasn’t been.
Problem is: 1) I don’t see any export settings for Prores 422 HQ in PP CS6. and 2)If I can’t export as prores, is there something else I can export it out as other than Prores 422 HQ (without losing the quality as this will eventually be color graded down the workflow).
Thanks
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There are ways of getting prores out of a Premiere timeline on Windows but it’s quite complicated so I’ll only go into that if you’re really interested.
I’d recommend you use Avid’s DNxHD codec.
https://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/download/en423319
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Hi Lewis, Appreciate the link and information. It’s nice to have the Avid codec if it’s needed. But I would like to know the complicated way of doing it 🙂
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Sorry I didn’t reply to this. I’ll PM you just in case this goes undiscovered.
All you need is Premiere (obviously), a frameserver (I’d recommend Advanced Frameserver), AVISynth, and a 32 bit build of ffmpeg.
Install and extract everything.
In premiere go file export media.
Select Advanced frameserver or debugmode frameserver depending on the one you chose. If there’s an option to write PCM samples into signpost avi, select it. This will render the sound in Premiere so you don’t have to in ffmpeg.
Write the signpost avi (for example “fs.avi”) by selecting render.
While it’s frameserving, create an .avs file in the same location as the .avi file and edit it with notepad. Put the following into the file and save it – note “fs.avi” is just the name I’m using in this example:
AviSource("fs.avi")Open cmd.exe and CD into the directory your .avs and .avi file is. Put in the ffmpeg.exe file followed by the following parameters:
ffmpeg.exe -i fs.avs -c:v prores -profile:v 2 -c:a copy ProResMovie.movNote profile v:2 means standard prores 422. To use the others change to:
-profile:v 0422 Proxy
-profile:v 1422 LT
-profile:v 2422
-profile:v 3422 HQLet ffmpeg render.
Enjoy.
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