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Making the switch to Premier.
I’m looking at advising my company to switch from Apple FCP 6 to Adobe Premier.
I want to get a couple of things straight in my head before I propose it.
I know Premier can work with a wide range of formats and codec’s but is the a standard or native format that works best.
IE: FCP works best with Apple Pro Res.
We currently shoot everything in Apple Pro Res and want to figure out if we are going to needs to change our shoot process.I personally have not used Premier in a looong time so I’m sure thing have changed a lot.
From what I can see poking around in the CS 5.5 version we have there is a way to capture footage built into Premier which is great for the rare occasions we still get tapes, most of our stuff is shoot Apple Pro Res directly to our SAN or it is shot Sony XD car or Pan P2.
Is there a log and transfer feature or do you use the tools that Sony and Panasonic have.I also do see a way yo output to tape, how is that accomplished?
My final question (for now) is about closed captioning and that may be better suited for MacCaption to answer, but in FCP we can create a file and have FCP 7 lay the metadata to tape for HD Captioning.
Yes I said we use FCP6, but for tape output we have 2 copies of FCP7 to handle the captioning.Thanks for the help and guidance.
Steve.
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Really?
No responses to this in 2 day.Steve.
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I think you’d have better lick in the main forum… this beginners forum is always slightly dead.
With that said, here is what I know:
1) If your files come in natively as ProRes then you’re fine. As long as you’re using a Mac and have at least one Apple pro app installed (like fcp or compressor or whatever) then you’ll have full support for ProRes.
You can capture from tape as long as you have a firewire deck or use an I/O card like an AJA Kona or Blackmagic Decklink. The latter wont allow deck control but should let you capture video with timecode. I rarely work with tape so I’m foggy on the details.
Premiere can work natively with P2, AVCHD, and XDCAM. Copy the full file structure of their card’s media to your hard drive. Within Premiere go to Menu > Window > Media Browser. These types of clips which rely on multi-file clips possibly spanned between different folders can only be properly imported this way. There is no log and transfer that uses transcoding. You can do something similar to log and transfer with Prelude which will allow you to copy and transcode materials.
As far as laying to tape, this may be of some use https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/3/930624
Premiere Pro CS6 does support caption files, look at their help documentation for more detail but you may want to keep FCP7 around for a little as you compare the two and their performance for laying to tape.
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Thanks Angelo.
You answered a lot of my questions.
I came to the Adobe Premiere Pro basics forum because these are beginner questions and thought I could get he answers here, but again thanks for the help.If I have any more questions I’ll go to the main forum.
I may even put this in there too to see what other responses I get.Steve.
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