Premiere Pro and long form

[Dennis Radeke]

The biggest potential pitfall is users not installing enough RAM. With a 64-bit system, the answer to traditional long-form woes is to add more memory. We started to see this in CS4 which was ’64-bit addressable’ – 32bit app that could address more than 4GB of RAM with doc users.

[Walter Biscardi]

Oliver so far so good here. We transitioned around May / June of 2012 and honestly we’ve yet to run into any sort of issue caused by project size / media amount.

We’re still running on our 48TB SAN from Small Tree, up to 8 workstations connected at any given time, CS6 on all systems and nary a worry so far. We did the entire second season of This American Land for PBS on there with each episode running anywhere from 20 – 40 hours of raw material over 13 episodes. Editors pulling from each others shows as necessary. We have more documentary projects and reality / docu-series type of work lining up for 2013 and all of it will go into PPro.

The big key…… let me say that again….. THE BIG KEY to making large projects work in PPro is media management. It’s completely different than what you’re used to in FCP 7. PPro makes you do a lot of media management yourself. On the front end, it’s a little bit of a pain when you get started into the application but the more you use it, the more we appreciate that at the end of a project, we simply need to move one folder over to Archive an entire project.

I cannot recommend enough Richard, Robbie and Jeff’s book “An Editor’s Guide To Adobe Premiere Pro.” This should actually come standard with every copy of CS that’s sold to someone switching from another NLE. Get the media management chapter down and follow Richard’s plan.

Also accept that you CAN work completely natively with everything during your rough cut phase. Do NOT spend wasteful time converting everything under the sun to a single format / frame rate until you have a locked cut. Once we accepted that workflow really does work, we have become much more efficient in our projects. I documented our current workflow here on the Cow recently.

https://magazine.creativecow.net/article/workflow-update-imac-adobe-the-x-factor

Any further questions about specific workflows, etc…. feel free to contact me directly.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media

Foul Water Fiery Serpent, an original documentary featuring Sigourney Weaver. US & European distribution by American Public Television
MTWD Entertainment – Developing original content for all media.
“This American Land” – our new PBS Series.
“Science Nation” – Three years and counting of Science for the People.

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[Oliver Peters]

Thanks. Lots of good info.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com