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How to archive footage ingested natively?
Hello all,
I manage a small team of editors and we are currently making the move to Adobe Premiere Pro (on Mac). Things are going fairly smoothly, but one thing I’m trying to figure out is how to archive the footage we ingest natively through Prelude.
If we ingest natively from, say, a Panasonic AG-AF100, we can of course edit the .mts and things are fine and dandy. However, once the project is finished, I’m uncertain how to add the footage to our library for use in future videos. In the past we simply moved the ProRes or DVCPRO files into an appropriate folder on our Xsan, but ingesting natively results in multiple folders—which, as we all, have to be maintained in order for the footage to be readable.
Any suggestions? Does the footage have to be stored by ingest date (containing all the subfolders), or is there a way to combine all those folders? We could convert it all to ProRes, but then we lose native format and all of the audio (we usually record mono tracks with two lapels) is combined into a stereo track.
Thanks for your time and thoughts!
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The workflow I’ve thought of since is to review all footage after a project is finished in Prelude and do one of the following.
If there is footage we want to save as broll in our library, we will export them as ProRes 422. If there are interviews we want to save, we will export as ProRes with 4 channels of audio. It took me a while to figure out how to export multiple channels, but to do it make a new preset in Adobe Media Encoder, and under the Audio tab you can set how many channels of audio to export. Change from stereo to 4 channels.
It adds the extra step of reviewing and transcoding footage after a project is done, but this way we will be able to organize and search our library through Finder.
Anyone else have thoughts or ideas?
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