Preferred editing codec

[Ann Bens]

Premiere does not have an editing codec, all is done natively.
If there is no ready made sequence setting you make your own by going into Setting / Editing Mode / Custom or…
…Import a clip and drag it into the New Item icon (at the bottom of the project window) and it will create an matching sequence for your clip.

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[Ben G unguren]

A lot of post-fcp users are going with ProRes, but my guess is a lot will eventually settle in with DNxHD since you need FCP installed to encode to ProRes, whereas DNxHD is free. (That’s what’s happening with me, a post-FCP user, at any rate.)

Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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[Jason Brown]

This is great information…I was debating on Cineform, DNxHD, ProRes. But I was a bit confused…because it seems that each application has it’s advantages to using their preferred codec.

But it seems that Premier doesn’t work like this? No codec offers any additional real-time or enhanced production workflow over another? (except the obvious issue when working with GOP based codecs)

-Jason

[Jim Wiseman]

You can get all the Final Cut codecs including the ProRes with a purchae of Motion 5 on the Mac App store. I still think they are the cleanest codecs by my comparisons, and in widest use. Also heavily favored for AJA hardware, co- developed with Apple.

Jim Wiseman
Sony PMW-EX1,Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 2.1, Premiere Pro 5.0 and 5.5, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Avid MC, Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz 24Gb RAM 120GB SSD, Macbook Pro 17″ 2011 2.2 Ghz Quadcore i7 8Gb SSD, G5 Quadcore PCIe

[Jim Wiseman]

Motion 5 is 49.95, BTW.

Jim Wiseman
Sony PMW-EX1,Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 2.1, Premiere Pro 5.0 and 5.5, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Avid MC, Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz 24Gb RAM 120GB SSD, Macbook Pro 17″ 2011 2.2 Ghz Quadcore i7 8Gb SSD, G5 Quadcore PCIe

[Jeff Greenberg]

The ‘why’ might make more sense like this.

Your timeline – you can mix and match anything. It’ll playback. We don’t render in Premiere Pro, we “preview.” only if we need to.

Now, those previews, that’s what you’ve been calling rendering. You have the options to pick a codec for a sequence for Premiere Pro to ‘preview’ to – and it’s often an I-Frame MPEG 2 file, easy to edit, playback and render.

But what about output? If you’re exporting the media, then Premiere Pro will skip the previews (unless you explicitly tell it otherwise) and then use Adobe Media Encoder to ‘compress’ and render in one step to your final output codec (preventing two compressions – one a render, the second the output codec.)

And yes, this takes longer than having the preview files already built – if you have them built, you have the option to use them.

Best,

Jeff G

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[Ben G unguren]

Those are really good points, Jeff. Especially for folks coming from FCP-land, matching your timeline codec to your footage is absolutely critical. From what you’re saying, it sounds like this is less of an issue in PPro. Personally, I could use some more understanding of how this works.

Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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[Jason Brown]

Jeff, thanks again for the input. I’m trying to become more familiar with Premier…as another tool. These comments are helpful! 🙂

btw, Just found out that I’m not going to be able to make it out to NAB this year to interrupt your presentations! 🙂 Always a great time… 🙂