New Sequence settings

[Alex Udell]

Depending on your thought process…

Timeline Resolution can be

1) Same as Source if it’s homogeneous
2) Whatever you want to make your master for multiple deliverables

Regardless and independent of that you should be able to set your Preview Codec.

ProRes should be an option for that if you’d like to use it.

The more of your timeline you force to render in that Preview Codec can benefit you on the export, assuming you also export to a “SAME” ProRes Master, where PPro can reuse those ProRes Previews on Export.

I say “force” because, as you know, it’s not always necessary to Render to see something in PPro. So if there is no preview of something displayed in real time, then you won’t have the export benefit for those parts of the timeline, which can weigh down the export process.

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[Trevor Ward]

Thanks for reply Alex,

However, I’m not talking about resolution nor frame rate. I’m specifically talking about coded. Just because I shot in AVCHD doesn’t mean I will want my editing codec to be AVCHD. That codec and many others are long GOP and require a lot of processor to “edit” with them. I know it’s become passe to no longer transcode the camera files into ProRes, but aren’t we just moving the slow down from one part of our process to a different part by NOT doing so?

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[Alex Udell]

Hi Trevor,

I think you have to look at the project scope and your computing power on hand to answer your question.

Certainly on legacy hardware, or with limited ram or GPU involvement, budgeting transcoding on the front end would give some peace of mind during editorial and exporting. This might be helpful if creatively, you tend to be stifled in cases where things get weighed down or you can see that you will be intend on effects heavy operations that will certainly repeatedly push you to a render state during creative decision making.

Also in those cases, if you are going to be client supervised, and don’t want to be “rendering constantly” to edit. Then it might be worthwhile.

So it’s all about the context you find yourself in.

The difference these days is that it’s no longer a requirement.

Hence you asking the question.

What was true of Prores in FCP is true of it in PPro. It’s a non GOP format so easy on the decode. File sizes are larger so plays better on local drives then over the network. And if your previews match the output master, then it will save some time in export.

The difference, then, is do you transcode all at the start. Or selectively during the edit via the “Render Effects in to out” and “Render In To Out” ? I guess I can’t really answer that for you. But you can ponder and do some tests up front to see what you think.

HTH,

Alex Udell
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