Samsung Galaxy S6 and S7 Video Footage

[Michael Aghy]

Hello Dave,

Thanks for the response.

I tested the link twice, aside from clicking “I Agree”, there is no email sign up needed to download the file. Anyways, if there is an easier service for sharing content, please let me know.

Correct, I just picked highest quality video size and started shooting. Didn’t realize there are variable frame rates.

Unfortunately, this was a trip out of the country. So I can not reshoot. But good to know that there are apps for next time.

Any suggestions for what to encode media with to retain quality / size and give Premiere an easy time to edit with? Ill likely export out a 1920 x 1080 video, but it would be nice to retain the larger dimensions for cropping into footage. And a more general question: Is there a common format that Premiere prefers to work with? For example, with FCP, I recall Apple ProRes 422 was usually a safe bet for encoding footage.

Thanks

[Michael Aghy]

Ok, great, thanks. I guess thats best I can hope for.

I have a mac and pc. Can use either for editing but any suggestions on what to encode on a windows machine? What does Premiere prefer? AVI? Unfortunately, most the presets I tried wanted to shrink the video down to 1920 x 1080 and didn’t allow me to retain size.

Thanks

[Peter Garaway]

Hi Michael,

Dave covered the issues with variable frame rates. We hope to add support VFR down the road though I can’t promise a date. We know that variable frame rate footage isn’t going away ☺

For the time being, I’d recommend using handbrake to transcode your files into a constant frame rate. This should fix your audio issues. If not, let us know. Below shows the steps on how to do this:

https://www.streamingmedia.com/Producer/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Articles/Tutorial-How-to-Restore-A-V-Sync-to-Variable-Frame-Rate-Video-for-Editing-in-Premiere-Pro-109176.aspx

For shooting footage in the future. Filmic Pro is a pretty awesome app. They give you lots of control when shooting and also allow you to record at a constant frame rate. Here’s a link:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.filmic.filmicpro&hl=en

Hope this helps!

Peter Garaway
Adobe
Premiere Pro

[Michael Aghy]

Thanks for all the responses.

Still dreaming of that day where you just drag the footage into Premiere and started editing 🙂

[Michael Aghy]

I settled on transcoding everything using mpeg streamclip into H264 1920 x 1080 MOV files. Really slow process and files still had trouble playing smoothly in Premiere (even with 1/4 resolution, 16GB ram, usb 3.0 drive), especially if effects were applied. But it worked out.