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FC7 to Adobe Premiere Workflow
Making a change from FC 7 to the latest version of Adobe Premiere and see that there is no Apple Prores 422 for a source of output. I produce a regional TV show and here is my current workflow.
1.Sequence settings when editing in FC7:
16:9/apple prores 4222.Export in quicktime and make movie self contained
3. Import into Protools 8 as quicktime. Then do post audio and the export out again through ProTools. Apparently Protools hass apple prores 422 built into it when exporting or bouncing the movie out.
4. Re-import into FC7 and then setup a new sequence in 4:3, and letterbox the movie file as per our broadcast facilities request.
Apple prores gives us excellent quality during the airing of our show and I do not want to loose this quality when switching to Premiere. With no prores choices as a means of export, then what is my best solution or compariable solution? Should I get FC X and import it into there and export in prores or upgrade to FC X which I heard was nightmare? Or lacks the features of FC 7. The reason I want to get away from FC 7 is the fact that Apple isn’t going to support FC7 anymore.
Also, I currently use Compressor to convert all of our episodes for our website. Does Adobe have anything similar? Just want to shorten the learning curve here and not go through the painful and frustrating task of experimenting with which method is best.
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To answer your last question first, yes, Adobe uses Media Encoder for all compressions. Media Encoder is also where you set up your ProRes setting.
In Premiere, when you hit Export > Media, that is actually Media Encoder and allows you to choose Quicktime as your format, scroll down to choose ProRes as your codec on your Video tab.
To make things easier in the future, you can save out a preset with these settings and just click on that preset each time.
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Oh, the other thing you might want to think about is just exporting a audio file out of ProTools, dropping that on your original sequence in Premiere and taking that sequence into a 4:3 space before export. That will give you one less compression to do.
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Hi Nick,
[Nick Kessler] “With no prores choices as a means of export, then what is my best solution or compariable solution?”You can export ProRes media if you’re on a Mac and have FCP installed. No problem. Set Format to QuickTime, then go to the video tab in the lower part of the interface and choose Codec > ProRes 422 (or what have you). I usually create presets for this.
[Nick Kessler] “I currently use Compressor to convert all of our episodes for our website. Does Adobe have anything similar?”
Yes, it’s called Adobe Media Encoder. Click Export to export from Premiere Pro, press the Queue button to launch Media Encoder. It works as a standalone app, as well.
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