XAVC Codec in Premiere Pro

[Peter Garaway]

Hi Hooban,

Yes, XAVC is supported natively in Premiere Pro CC which was releases on the 17th.

I’m sure others can provide more info on system configs but I thought I’d let you know that I’ve seen great performance playing back XAVC 4K 24p on the specs below.

Z820
2.90GHz
32GB RAM
NVIDA GeForce GTX 680

Best,

Peter Garaway
Adobe
Premiere Pro

[Hooban Meyer]

Thanks Peter!

[Steve Connor]

I’ve been working with some 4K XAVC footage in CC this week, I have a 2008 MacPro with Ati 4870 graphics card, performance is fine until you add any filters then I have to drop resolution or render before there is any usable realtime playback. I’m assuming that a faster graphics card with CUDA would do much better.

As a side note I get much better playback with effects added when I edit XAVC in FCPX

Steve Connor

There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum

[Myles Conti]

Hi, with last weeks release of premiere pro cc you can now work natively with this codec. I just shot a commercial on the F5 in HD, and am editing this footage natively without a problem. Prior to the shoot I also loaded in some 4k footage from the F55 that I downloaded from the web. This footage also opened with no problems.

Myles Conti
Director/Editor
contibrosfilms.com

[Myles Conti]

I should also add that I did a quick test using adobe dynamic link to send footage to AE for stabilisation, and it round tripped as you would expect any supported codec to work. I’m using an old Mac Pro 2008 model with 24g ram. Working at half res I’m having no performance issues. Early days in the edit, I’ll update if anything unexpected occurs.

Myles Conti
Director/Editor
contibrosfilms.com

[Tim Kolb]

[Steve Connor] ”
I have a 2008 MacPro with Ati 4870 graphics card, performance is fine until you add any filters then I have to drop resolution or render before there is any usable realtime playback. I’m assuming that a faster graphics card with CUDA would do much better.

As a side note I get much better playback with effects added when I edit XAVC in FCPX”

That sounds like the card that probably came with the system…how much RAM does it have?

Apple has always worked more closely with ATI than NVIDIA so I suppose it would not be unexpected to see FCPX utilize a relatively limited ATI GPU card better than Premiere Pro does (though are you saying that FCPX plays the 4K with effects at full res vs PPro dropping res?).

I don’t know how GPU acceleration compares when NVIDA and ATI (AMD) face each other with their newest offerings…I’ll be curious to see how the inevitable comparisons fall.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Joseph W. bourke]

Steve –

But doesn’t FCPX default to Dynamic Playback mode:
https://documentation.apple.com/en/finalcutpro/usermanual/index.html#chapter=84%26section=3%26tasks=true

…when it plays back realtime footage/effects? In which case it automatically kicks down the rez in the interest of real time? I’m not accusing FCPX of any trickery, just asking?

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

[Joseph W. bourke]

I posted a link to the FCP7 manual – there may well be a different playback architecture in FCPX – I’d still like to know. Thanks.

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

[Steve Connor]

[Tim Kolb] “That sounds like the card that probably came with the system…how much RAM does it have? “

Just 512mb, I’m honestly surprised 4K works at all!

[Tim Kolb] ” (though are you saying that FCPX plays the 4K with effects at full res vs PPro dropping res?). “

No, FCPX doesn’t play at full res, but it will play at a better resolution than PPRo, I know this is due to the low specs on my system, although PPro absolutely flies with everything else

Steve Connor

There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum

[Aidan Mccarthy]

Can Anyone tell me if they have had success at editing XAVC 2k IN Premiere CS6,
I have loaded the plugins from the sony site, (for the RAW Files) as I cant find any other plugin but just can’t get the F5 mxf files to import in to the project..
From what I have researched it seems to work fine in Premiere CC, But I don’t want to use that, as I have a Copy of CS6 on my machine.
Thanks