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Workflow question for Premiere 1080 to 720
Shooting interviews in 1080 but delivery will by 720 web.
I almost always shoot interviews with my 70-200mm lens. So I can re-frame once in a while to keep interview interesting. Thinking about a new strategy tell me what you guys think.First does anyone know if you get a sharper image scaling in premier.. ie the project is 720 vs taking the clips and right in Mpeg Streamclip scaling to 720 so you don’t waste rendering/editing cycle to scale within the project.
So my new thought is to just shoot 1080 and frame the guy right in the middle. keep it 1080 after Streamclip. and make the project 1080.. do all my editing. once I have the final cut then take that project and drop it into a 720 project and spend some time reframing there.. now when I take thing out of order i can control things like the client jumping from the right side of the screen to the left for a few short sentences etc. Can anyone see any issues with this? Since I’m not zooming in camera I wonder if I got a cine prime lens if Id’ see any better sharpness /boost in quality.
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This question is all over the place.
1. I would bet, without testing, that Premiere’s rescaling is the same if not better than MPEG Streamclip. Premiere, while running in software mode will do CPU based scaling while checking maximum quality or using a CUDA graphics card for hardware mode will increase the quality of scaling.
Regardless, when down scaling, it’s almost always good to add some sharpening to the image.
2. Why use MPEG Streamclip at all? What camera are you shooting or what system are you using that would require you to convert camera-original video? If you have to, what are you converting it to? This may also be the reason for some loss in sharpness as the image is resampled.
3. I would shoot in 1080 if you’d like to reframe in post. I think it’s an odd tactic, if you’re shooting a one-camera interview then marginal reframes will probably be more distracting to the viewer than helpful; it points to some other issues like the content not being interesting enough or the lack of a second interview/infograhic or b-roll cutaway.
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Streamclip? Premiere edits native.
Drop everything in a 720 timeline.
For the clips that dont need reframing you can use Scale to Framesize.
The rest you can reframe on the spot.———————————————–
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ya no need to waste time with another app.
Premiere has excellent bicubic resizing and gpu accelerated to boot.
Something I always wanted but could never have in Final Cut Pro 7.x and below.
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