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Using Mpeg Streamclip with Premiere Pro
Hi all
I’ve recently used a home made DOF adaptor to shoot a music video and I’m looking to batch convert my files so the video can be flipped before importing into Premiere CS5.
After looking into it the best option seems to be MPEG Streamclip but I’m struggling to find the best setting without having to render in CS5. At the moment I’ve successfully found a format that will play in Premiere but the render bar is yellow which means I still have to render before normal playback.
My original footage is PAL MPG 1440 x 1080 25fps shot with a Sony Z1e.
Below is a screen shot of the preset I’m currently using..
https://img217.imageshack.us/i/mpegstreamslip.jpg/
Many thanks in advance for your help – this forum is great!!!
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3 Replies
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A yellow bar doesn’t mean that you will be required to render the timeline for realtime playback. It means that you ‘might’ have to, and this all depends on your system’s specs as well as some settings within PPro.
Here’s a wonderful explanation of the green, yellow and red bars.
https://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/2011/02/red-yellow-and-green-render-bars.html
You might want to simply import your footage into PPRo, flip the image, then export at the sequence’s setting. Same results, it’s just that you’re eliminating one step, and ensuring that your file will be of the highest compatibility with PPro and the particular sequence setting.
Depending on your budget, you may want to look at Cineform’s Neoscene for HDV conversion to Cineform’s codec, which is a much better editing format than HDV or H.264. You’d still have to flip the image in the edit.
Steve Brame
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Follow Steve’s advice: H.264 is a bad format for editing and HDV is not much better.
Transcode all of your footage into an i-frame codec like Cineform (which is a great codec for editing) or – if you don’t want to spend any money, use AVIDs free DNxHD codec (with the appropriate codec settings).I’ve been working with DNxHD and Premiere and After Effects quite a time now, and it works perfectly.
There’s just one downside of DNxHD: the transcoded files need a lot of hdd space.
Hope this helps!
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I’m using DNxHD and my files are large but in Premiere, I still get the red line. It’s choppy even at draft quality.
My settings were pretty much like the ones here https://buildyourown.wordpress.com/2010/04/15/how-to-transcode-mov-files/
4GB ram on 32 bit (so 3GB ram really) and plenty of HD space, 2.40GHz quad intel CPU ATI Radeon HD 5450
Any suggestions?
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