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Premier Pro and Epic R3d footage loging – edit – archive workflow
I am working on some rather large natural history projects with over 20TB of original Red Epic footage for each 52 min show. We have started editing the files natively in Premiere Pro CS6 and the actual editing is going quite smoothly on our Mac Pro.
The biggest issue I am coming up against is organizational.
So far i have not found any way in Premiere Pro to view much of the metadata that is already present in the original files viewed in RedCine.Is there a way to display all the metadata in Premier that is already in Redcine?
Even simple things such as Record Frame Rate, Rating and Redcode compression dont seem to make it into Premiere.
Am I missing something?The next problem is that when searching for key words in logged footage Premiere only displays the next clip that matches the keyword and not all clips at once. Is there any way to create a bin with all logged clips that have a common keyword in the description for example? This seems like a pretty basic function that is missing and something that is quite easy in Final Cut and Avid. Any ideas?
Ultimately I would like to incorporate all the logging info into some kind of footage archive with functionality similar to Lightroom 4 but that doesn’t seem possible at the moment. Any tips on a better system to log R3d footage and use that information in an edit as well as in a footage archive at a later date?
Ideally I would like to have a system that i can use in the field on a Macbook Pro to view and log r3d files that can then be imported into a Premiere Pro project to edit.
thanks for any ideas – Brian
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just figured out that I was searching for “!” an exclamation mark that i tend to use as a simple way to mark and find good clips in varying degrees, In Final Cut i just would add from ! to !!!! to the description and the results came up in any search.
lt seems that Premiere Pro does not recognize the lowly ! in its search results, nor any of the other signs created by Shift + a number key.
Does anyone else have a better solution to marking good clips when logging? I know there is the Good checkbox but that is relatively limited and needs an extra click. Also there is the color label route but there is only one color option slot that is not already used by Adobe for standard colors.
any thoughts on this? I am looking for a practical way to log tons of Red Epic footage in the field and in various locations by assistents to prepare footage for the final edit.
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