FCP vs Premiere comment

[Joe Moya]

The DSLR camera’s look really nice… I am still shooting using HV30/40’s with Letus DOF lenses (…which at the time I bought them were a big leap in camera tech). I will be moving to the DSLR video process when the second generation DSLR’s come about AND when the NLE’s catch up to the compression codecs the DSLR’s use.

I swear that Canon, Sony and Panasonic have a room full of engineers who only job is to make the editing software/application engineers life miserable.

At this point, the only “simple” solution seems to be keep using older applications that seem to have no problems with relatively common mpeg HD formats… with Avid Liquid being one… and, apparantly Premiere Elements as well. Although, a second options I have only recently started to use is Cineform as a transcoder… to date, using Cineform seems to do two things at once… it creates a proxy like format that makes HD work very smoothly and fast and also appears to be lossless as compared to a uncompressed format. I am not sold on the “lossless” aspects – yet… but, it definately is faster to work with although it creates HUGE files. I think time will tell what kind of bugs this work flow will create, but for now it seems to work well enough.

[Bob Dix]

Ah Joe,
You are so right.Apparently Canon Techs and Adobe and Final Cut Pro are getting their brains together for Canon’s new camcorder and fix the editing problem.Would you believe Canon is releasing new Firmware via Internet download in mid March to upgrade the Canon 5D Mark II so that 24 & 25 fps will be available at 1920 x 1080 amazing , this will make things easier in PAL land because all our stuff is basically 25fps and the Canon 5D mark II is 30 fps. But, realy with 5 upgrades to Premiere Pro since 1.5 was released in about 2005 nothing much has progressed except perhaps editing speed with the newer Duo Cores.
Happy editing !
We try to keep things simple, with fewer computer upgrade and software. Some Adobe Premiere Pro techs in the Pacific are close to incompetent, they do not understand their own beautifull product.

We still use the Canon HV20 , Canon Service have upgraded it and it runs better than brand new.It will take the output of the 5D markII exported via Tape and you would be hard to pick any difference. But, the full frame sensor of the 5D does real 35mm movie work handled properly.
That said the Canon HV 20,30 and 40 worked correctly gives professional results.

[Carlos Parra]

what I find hard to believe is that I can use these “poor quality” videos in any software but premiere. They even work in After effects, but as soon as I play them in Premiere they start to jump, or shake, or freeze, etc. I have a 4 GB RAM Pc, AE works fine in it.

Ive been working in my old Mac, copy to tape and then work on After Effects, I dont even open Premiere anymore.

carlos dessler