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Trying to edit AVCHD footage professionally in Premiere 5.5
I am a 15 year editor and I am trying to make the switch from FCP7 to Premiere 5.5.
I have done many searches online about what to do with my AVCHD camera footage and everyone says just import it like that and it should work fine.
I do lots of After Effects work and I also scrub around the timeline fast. I would like to convert to ProRes or a similar uncompressed format. When I do convert to ProRes the video does not scrub properly. It hiccups and freezes and is a headache to edit. I have adjusted the sequence settings and created a prores template sequence so that they “should” work fine with prores, but no.
Has anyone experienced this?
Is there another format I should convert to?Thanks in advance.
Ian.
Mac Pro 2×2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
8 GB Ram
Blackmagic Decklink Studio 2 CardPlayroom Creative
We are an Orange County Video Production and Marketing company.
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Hi Ian,
I feel your pain. There are a couple of issues here. I too had sluggish timelines when working in CS5.5 on prety much the same system that you have. ProRes, AVCHD even XDCAM was very sluggish and I almost bailed on the CS line. BUT there are three things you can do that will make a HUGE difference.First and foremost: Upgrade to CS6. Get the cloud membership if you cant afford the purchase upgrade. This will help a lot and I noticed a big difference right away.
Second: And this is a BIGGIE, get yourself a Cuda graphics card. I know they are not cheap but there are less expensive models out there over the Quadro4000 and they work better. I installed the GTX570 from MacVidCards on ebay and my system now works wonderfully. Premiere is made to utilize the cuda cores from your graphics card and really speeds things up.
And lastly, A fast RAID hard drive will always help speed things up in Premiere.
Hope this helps.
Richard Cooper
Frostline Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
http://www.frostlineproductions.com
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