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Is there a best format to edit with?
A very fond hello to you all. Cutting right to the chase, I have couple hours of AVCHD documentary style wedding footage shot with a Canon HFS100 camera, I am attempting to edit the footage natively in Premiere Pro CS5 in a multicam setup but playback is too choppy and previews take a long time to render. That said, can I convert the MTS’s into a common format that premiere can handle better and preferably loss-less? While doing some testing with adobe media encoder, I saw the way the presets are setup and it raises more questions then it answers. I have tried to search for the answer but the internet has failed me thus far. Im looking for video equivalent to TIFF or WAV. It seems according to the media encoder my options are mpeg 2 or lossless avi. What do you guys think?
-Andy-
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Have a look at NeoScene.
https://www.cineform.com/neoscene/ -
The equivalent to TIFF or WAV would be uncompressed – and a gigantic file (think 6 gigs per minute.) That’s your lossless AVI
Adobe doesn’t have a native editorial codec; often people are picking cineform (which is what Ann suggests). It provides a compression level you can choose, works with Premiere Pro, supports an alpha channel, etc. It’s a good all around choice.
MPEG2, like h.264 was really meant for distribution and not shooting nor editorial (although over the years there have been some editorial systems that use specialized setups of mpeg2.)
I think the general consensus is either upgrade your computer (more ram, faster cpu/cores, faster drives) or pick a third party codec like Cineform. I know some people who use Avid’s DNxHD codec (because it’s free.)
If you pick a 3rd party codec, you’ll have to build custom compression settings and transcode all of your footage – but this will speed up the playback/rendering/handling of the footage.
Sooner or later you have to pay the piper – either the beginning or end.
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