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FCPX or Premiere for GH4 4K
Hi everyone,
We’ve just purchased GH4s and are trying to decide whether to switch to FCP X or to Premiere from FCP 7 (so hard to let go!).
Does anyone have experience editing 4K footage in a 1080 sequence in FCP X that could tell me how smoothly it plays back? All things being equal (processors, RAM, etc.), is there any difference in ability to handle native files between FCP X and Premiere… at 1080P? At 4K?
We need a quick turnaround as we do mostly web videos and would like to edit the GH4 4K footage in a 1080 timeline for quick resizing and zoom-ins.
Thanks,
Nayeli -
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Well this is the FCPX forum- sooo. I’ve cut GH4 footage in FCPX- it’s rock solid for me. Especially if you have decent system specs.
Noah
FCPWORKS – FCPX Workflow
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GH4 4K original camera .mov files on FCPX and rMBP no problem whatsoever.
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Works fine natively in Premiere with a decent machine at 4k. I prefer to transcode because the long GOP makes speed viewing material not quite as butter smooth as iframe.
David
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Ah, thanks… that’s the next question I was going to ask… performance of all-intra vs. the lower bit rate 1080 on both. Thanks!
-Nayeli
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Good news, thanks!
-Nayeli
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Thanks! What about 1080… any difference between the all-intra H264 and the lower bit rate options?
-Nayeli
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A beautiful part of the FCPX workflow is that you can generate ProRes files within the application while editing the h.264 until the transcode is finished. ProRes will beat h.264 for editing no matter what NLE is used due to h.264’s aforementioned long GOP structure.
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NickZimmerman.net
Certified in FCPX, Logic Pro X, & Motion 5
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It’s possible to have all I Frame (no IBP GOP) H.264. Panasonic AVC Intra is an example. I believe that’s one of the options for recording in the GH4.
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Only in 1080p from what I saw, the 4k is a more vanilla h.264. Apparently the All-I 1080p is pretty high quality though, the reviews I read raved about it.
https://www.eoshd.com/content/11934/panasonic-gh4-preview
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NickZimmerman.net
Certified in FCPX, Logic Pro X, & Motion 5
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Yes, from what I understand only 1080 is Intra.
BTW I use Blackmagic (BMPCC) and considering the 4K. This is one of the reasons I’d choose the BMP4K because its cDNG or ProRes flavors at 4K and not 8 bit H.264 GOP. Of course the GH4 does have a lot of nice features going for it and the outputs can get you 10bit 422.
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