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Most rookie question ever. export?
Hi all,
for the last 3 years i have been editing with FCP 7, but as i am totally disappointed with FCPX, I have decided to go back to my roots in Premiere. Its been a while but native editing of avchd with a 64bit app makes sense.
Anyways, my question is what format do i export my master from premiere, which is as widely accepted as Prores 422.
I usually store my master as prores and then compress to h264 for web. I do also produce content to air, and prores is what i usually send.
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If you have FCP installed you can still use prores. But a lot of other editors (myself included) are using DNxHD from AVID instead. It’s cross-platform and free. And it looks great.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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Hi Marcel –
The way I do it (and opinions probably differ) is to create a master clip from Premiere – if I’m working at 1920 x 1080, I’ll output my master file as a Quicktime Animation, millions of colors. It’s a huge file, but it’s at the top of the game as far as quality.
I then use that master file for all of my encoding for delivery. I’ll often send off a couple of Flash formats at 640 x 360, plus some H.264 formats in the same aspect ratio, and a format which will work on an iPhone as well. Having the one master file gives me the confidence that everything created from it will be as squeeky clean as the encoding allows.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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I have the same question, a lot of ex-FCP users seem to have to same problem..
It was all so simple. Export using Quicktime, ProRes, that was the master.
Using that to create other smaller versions.I read a lot that Avid’s DNxHD would be the solution.
But, if I for instance edit 5D’s dslr footage in h.264 (very good of PP that you can edit in native format!), then export master to DNxHD, that masterfile does not playback smooth!
(Above is, editing and exporting on a very powerfull Windows machine, playing the master file in Quicktime) -
I was going to ask the same question but found this post. There doesn’t seem to be a consensus here.
If I export using “Match Sequence Settings” am I retaining full (or near full) image quality? WHen I edit Canon DSLR footage and export with “Match Sequence Settings”, this gives me a .mpeg file, which is neither the same as the source footage or even playable in Quicktime.
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