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Getting HPX 300 / P2 card footage into PPro CS5
Some footage was shot for me by a third party using an HPX300 in 720p23.98n mode. I’ve never used footage from this camera before and want to know the best file format to ask for it to maintain quality (for eventual editing in PC Premiere Pro CS5).
Should I just ask for a copy of the P2 card contents and import it that way? Or should I let him ‘log and transfer’ on his Mac into some other high quality format?
He offers the files saved at the highest quality setting in FCP, Apple ProRes 422HQ.
Lastly, I am editing these files on a DV PAL 25fps timeline, in case that affects your answer.
Your response would be most appreciated as I am on another continent and cannot just test the files and ask for them in another format tomorrow.
Sean
Asus G73JH i7-720, 8GB RAM, Radeon HD5870 1GB, Win7 HP 64 bit, Adobe Production Premium CS5, Cinema4D Studio 11, and more…
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[Sean David] “Should I just ask for a copy of the P2 card contents and import it that way? Or should I let him ‘log and transfer’ on his Mac into some other high quality format?”
Absolutely ask for the original P2 folders.
[Sean David] ”
“Stay away from these in Premiere if you can.
If you are working with an existing DV timeline, just resize and you should be good to go, otherwise, create a new 720p timeline based on the format.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Thanks for this. Now a work flow question. I have the P2 card contents and nearly 200 MXF files. I would like to combine them into about 5 longer files by topic as another video file. I don’t mind if it is MXF, AVI or MOV or whatever but it should be very close to a lossless conversion as I want it to be my new source file.
The footage is from an HPX300 shot in 720/23.98pN in Intra-100. I’ve found the right timeline (PPro CS5) and created the separate timelines I need, so if I take it to export/encoder, what settings would you suggest to end up with a file that I can use as a source?
Sean
Asus G73JH i7-720, 8GB RAM, Radeon HD5870 1GB, Win7 HP 64 bit, Adobe Production Premium CS5, Cinema4D Studio 11, and more…
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Hi Sean,
Anything close to loseless is going to need to pretty fast drives to play or edit. Could you explain the idea behind as new source file?
If you want to keep it inside Premiere, all you have to do is select all the files on the timeline and right click “nest’, that will give you a new “virtual” single clip to work with.
As far as lossless formats go, Quicktime Animation / PNG / Motion Jpeg (Max quality) are all close to, or lossless, and they will be smaller in size that uncompressed AVI.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
Ok, that helps. Can a nested clip be put in a ‘bin’? I’m going to have to look up more on nesting, I heard about it but haven’t tried yet.
My concern is not so much for myself but others who are working on the same set of projects with the same source material and will likely be slowed down by all the individual files.
As for lossless, I made a 15GB Lagarith file at 1280×720 for a 15-minute segment as a test. It seems identical in quality but if I can do this without multiplying assets, then all the better.
I have used Lagarith a lot, as it is lossless and PPro reads it fine, as does VirtualDub and most of my 3D apps for rendering. It is still large files, but not the performance hit that some other codecs cause.
Sean
Asus G73JH i7-720, 8GB RAM, Radeon HD5870 1GB, Win7 HP 64 bit, Adobe Production Premium CS5, Cinema4D Studio 11, and more…
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