Workflow for c300 premiere/resolve..?

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Workflow for c300 premiere/resolve..?

Posted by Danny Phillips on July 16, 2014 at 3:34 am

Hi Everyone,

I Just had some questions regarding workflow with premiere and c300 footage. I have a 10 x 30 minute series coming up and was wondering if people are transcoding to prores or cutting native c300 footage? I’ve mainly cut prores footage so haven’t had the opportunity to see how smooth it is cutting native c300 footage.

I’m on new Mac Pro 6 core, D700s, 16GB, 8bay RAID5.

Also, if anyone has experience grading c300 native footage in DaVinci I’d love it of you could chime in too.

Ideally it would be fantastic to cut native and xml straight into resolve and finish… but we don’t live in an ideal world do we..? Or do we..?

Thanks so much in advance,
danny phillips
Melbourne

Derek Nickell replied 11 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
3 Replies

Tim Kolb
July 16, 2014 at 8:22 am

Cutting the material in Premiere Pro will be no issue whatsoever…I’m not certain if Resolve loads XF footage (XDcamHD422 50 basically) or not…I haven’t tried it.

However, once you were edited, you could export to ProRes to go to Resolve if it was necessary and still save yourself some time and data space over converting everything.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor
Danny Phillips
July 17, 2014 at 12:35 am

Hi Tim,

Thanks so much for your input…

In the past, a rough cut was handed over to me and I took it to finish so it made sense to have a prores workflow, but I was hoping to stay with the .mxf files at least through the edit – So your advice is exactly what I was hoping for.

Another question… how would you deal with file names i.e. CU, 2shot, MCU etc. would you just use the ‘Comments’ or ‘Description’ field in the NLE and move that field over to the extreme left so that it sits next to the shot in list view – or I suppose with the Thumbnail view this becomes less important. And what about media management in the RAID itself… Makes searching for individual shot from say… episode 4, scene 32, shot 7, take 2 – kinda tricky…

Again, thanks so much for your time.

Cheers,
danny
Melbourne
Derek Nickell
November 12, 2014 at 5:06 am

I’m finishing a feature right now shot on the C300. No issues with the import into Resolve.

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Derek Nickell | Editor, VFX, Colorist
Blue Brownie Creative, Portland, OR http://www.bluebrownie.com O:503.922.2117

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