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multiple clips from tapeless cameras
those who work with tapeless cameras know that a new file is created every time the record button is pushed.
However, for some projects I prefer having all those little clips be one big clip (like when you would just digitize an entire tape as one file.)
Is there a way to get premiere to interpret the series of video clips as one big clip in CS4 or maybe the upcoming cs5?
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The only way would be dragging them into their own sequence. Then drag that sequence into your main sequence when you need it. Not sure I can see any advantage doing that however.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
the other way is to play your footage live through the camera’s output into a capture card using whatever compression format you like best. The camera will “playback” those “spanned files” as one.
Down side is that you take a step backward by having to wait on live capture again, but if it is AVCHD you have to wait on re-encoding it anyways because none of the NLE’s will handle it very good anyhow….so the time is approx the same….and by live capturing it…you end up with better files than re-encoding the AVCHD….not to mention it solves your desire to have one file out of the many.
If you have access to Final Cut Pro, the “Log and Transfer” function in FCP recognizes tapeless cameras files as “one large file” and will convert them to prores or Apple Intermediate codec” upon ingest. Just one other solution.
CS5 touts some impressive abilities with native AVCHD, DSLR and RED footage, so we shall see.
Hope that helps ya. have a great night
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