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What does Premiere Pro transcode HDV Footage into?
I am importing HDV footage shot on a Sony Camera through the camera or a deck using firewire. I am trying to figure out what format Premiere is transcoding it as? when I look at the clip properties on a Windows 7 machine it just says Movie Clip (.mpeg). Does anyone know what file format this footage would be? My best bet is that it is MPEG2 Transport Stream. Thanks for any help.
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I don’t have any HDV footage at the moment to verify, but there is a free tool out there that I find almost indispensable called ‘MediaInfo’. It will tell you everything you wanted to know about media files.
Steve Brame
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It is a data transfer technically so it is a copy of the format recorded to. Which is mpeg-2. I forget the data rate but it is the same as DV. As it is more info in less space it requires a bit more power to edit with than DV.
You are not losing any data or quality from the tape.
Transcending to a cinefom code cab increase the colour space for better quality colour sampling in red and colour grading in general, but that’s for higher end needs broadcast level using HDV source footage. Even then its not necessary.
Jon Barrie
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It’s not transcoding – It’s copying the data, bit for bit from the camera and placing it in a Program stream. A transport stream would be m2t.
It’s an MPEG-2 file, running in 4:2:0 color space at approx 25 mb/s
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I have dropped the footage into CatDV and it is telling me the footage is MPEG2 Transport Stream (4:2:0 1440). So I think that means it is M2T. Right?
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Sounds that way. It’s still merely copying the data. Typically the proper extension for an MPEG Transport stream is M2T, not MPEG (although, both are valid.)
It’s the data that was on the tape. Still not transcoding.
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Jeff G
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