SLR H264 Footage looks bad in premier

[Aharon Rothschild]

I’ve gotten the most out of 5d footage using the FCP EOS Movie Plugin-E1 to transcode to prores.
I’ve seen allot of macro blocking when outputting prores from h264 5d footage in a premiere pro timeline, and doing a pre-transcode would defeat the purpose of using premiere.
I think setting the intermediate format to something non-lossy like pro-res might improve on this but I’m really not sure.
If anyone else would like to weigh in on this?

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[Chris Tompkins]

[Aharon Rothschild] “I think setting the intermediate format to something non-lossy like pro-res might improve on this but I’m really not sure.”

Not true as Premiere does not refer to the intermediate format unless you want to use them, otherwise it referrers back to the original raw files when exporting/mastering.

Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC

[Gary Alan]

maybe try editing with the h264 in ppro, i do, and don’t worry how it looks for now. Then only convert the small sections that were used in the edit instead of “all” the footage you shot.

Gary