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Quick switch to PPro CC, any gotchas I should be aware of?
I’m working on a 90 minute Documentary with about 1800 clips shot on 4K XAVC, ProRes422, AVCHD and .mp4 from GoPro. I’ve started the project in FCPX and have found an issue with my XAVC files, I’ve spent a day troubleshooting without resolving the issue so with a deadline looming I’m going to continue the project in PPro CC which isn’t having a problem with them (so far!)
I’ve just imported all my media and it’s busily generating peak files and hopefully doing it’s thing at the moment.
Are there any major issues with PPro CC I should be aware of going forward? I’ve had a look around the forums and can’t see anything that would worry me.
Steve Connor
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OK so the first couple of issues.
I left it to generate it’s peak files and closed it down when it was finished. When I re-opened the project it generated them all again!
When I drag any XAVC media into the source monitor I get 2 secs of “media pending” is this normal? I’m running from a fast SATA RAID
Steve Connor
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I might be old school, but I suggest converting the difficult formats to easier to manage ones. Convert the XAVC to ProRes. GoPro to Cineform or ProRes. Editing native is nice, but when the projects get HUGE…even Adobe PPro might struggle with that.
Shane
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[Shane Ross] “Editing native is nice, but when the projects get HUGE…even Adobe PPro might struggle with that.”
It certainly is struggling on my machine with the XAVC footage (2008 MacPro)!
Steve Connor
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How much RAM do you have? And do you have a card that enables CUDA? Those are biggies.
Shane
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Or, with PrPro CC, a video card that handles OpenCL.
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16GB RAM and non Cuda 5870 card, I know it’s not enough and when the XAVC media plays it works well, I was getting a lot of “media pending” messages while loading clips into the viewer, however after it finished it’s third round of “generating peak files” it now seems to be much snappier. Not full res of course but enough to edit with.
Steve Connor
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RAM might be OK, but without a CUDA card, editing in PPro will not be as smooth as you might like.
Shane
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Hi Steve,
You can refer to this post by Eric Bowen for guidance on RAM. I also agree you that you will be much much happier with a supported GPU in your system.
In Premiere Pro CC we greatly improved our performance with GoPro footage. There should be no need to convert. Also we have native support for XAVC with good performance up to 4k 23.97 (depending on the system). We also included native ProRes support for Mac OS 10.8 and newer.
All the best,
Peter Garaway
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Considering how low spec my system is, I have to say at the moment CC is performing pretty well with XAVC.
Steve Connor
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Concur about the GoPro footage.
plays smooth as butter once imported to CC.
in CS 6 it had a helluva time keeping up without a render.
normally once the import/conform is finished (and do let it finish before cutting)
and you save, it should not need to again, unless it’s moved to another
storage volume.I hope they fix that in CC eventually…it should never need to re conform
footage once it’s been done the first time.
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