Angelo Lorenzo
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It’s hard to say because every facility will have an idea of what’s important and what isn’t. I would poll your other editors/AEs who are actually searching for footage.
If you’re adding metadata you’ll never search for, you’re giving yourself extra work.
I always think keywording is a good idea with at least the client name and the date of the shoot in year month day format like 20130807 as file/camera date may not always be accurate for a number of reasons.
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Mocha AE, then manually adjust the track during the portions where it begins to fail. Mocha AE is included with After Effects and the help file includes a tutorial on screen replacement, using a cell phone as an example.
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High quality as Matthew recommends.
The difference in bitdepth for audio controls a few things: dynamic range and, in turn, noise floor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_bit_depth
I recommend not going any lower than 16-bits. 16-bit/48kHz seems to be the standard for video-based audio and you’ll end up compromising the quality of high dynamic range material with 8-bits; with music music 8-bits isn’t terribly noticeable because it’s mixed to remain fairly loud.
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So much missing information:
1) What type/compression is your current in-timeline footage?
2) What format are you exporting to? Better yet, a screenshot of your export settings may help reveal issues.
3) GPU acceleration only helps with so much, usually resizing and some effects. Under no circumstances is the GPU used in the actual compression process. Please read https://blogs.adobe.com/premierepro/2011/02/cuda-mercury-playback-engine-and-adobe-premiere-pro.html which is up to date for CS6, and I don’t think much has changed for CC.
4)You cannot control the amount of threads used for rendering or the amount of CPU usage, at least not within Premiere (I’m not terribly familiar with any activity wrangling utilities for Mac, Process Lasso is a decent Windows solution). RAM is not terribly key in the export process, it will use what it needs based on the amount of effects and frame size; if you aren’t utilizing 100% of RAM, it’s a good indication you aren’t hitting a bottleneck with system memory and that’s about all you can deduce.
5) CUDA, OpenGL will perform to a similar level but is more limited to the amount of tasks it can accelerate.
6) With iMacs I find that some issues stem from overheating and the mobo throttling CPU to protect itself from damage; video processing will produce a ton of heat. I would monitor this and get a desk fan if needed.
7) What, to you, classifies as a “extremely slow” export? A screenshot of your timeline to see overall complexity could be helpful.
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1) Not usually, although any difference in performance speed may lead to uneven read speeds as bytes are read from a slower drive vs a faster drive.
2) Depends on the configuration, number of drives you end up with, the interface card and the connection used to your card/motherboard.
3) RAID 3 is not used much in practice, I suggest RAID 5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID#RAID_5 beneath this is a chart to calculate usable RAID size and read/write performance
60 FPS h.264 footage doesn’t really spark a concern with me in terms of hard drive speed; some other issue/bottleneck may be afoot. Have you looked at Task Manager’s performance monitors when playing back footage to see what spikes?
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Prelude currently does not read external audio of any type, making this impossible. Subclip in Premiere or set markers.
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It’s based on a combination of frame size and footage format, additional settings are reserved for things like RED 4k-5k video.
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If you’ve synced audio in Premiere, there is really no turning back without redoing the work. Since you’re using R3D files, it’s hard to slip in intermediates without doing some heavy lifting or relying on a tool like https://www.retooled.net/?page_id=784
With that said, I’m almost positive your issue is the external drive. WD Passport drives are slow bus-powered hard drives really not suitable for the task at hand. Move a few clips over to a internal drive or a more suitable full sized firewire drive (like a G-Drive) and I think you’ll find playback more acceptable. If your cache for the project is also on this external drive, it’s only aggravating the issue as well.
Without a Red Rocket card, I wouldn’t expect real time playback above 1/4 quality so you will have to stick with that or lower to make things workable in your source/program monitor.
What does your activity monitor app look like when you’re taxing your system with playback? Anything pegging? Could be another clue to performance bottlenecks.
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That’s strange, the v1.7.2 AMA plugin worked fine for me on Media Composer v6 on Windows. Perhaps there are other snags in the process – certain audio configurations or flavors of DNxHD that are being rejected.
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1) Some formats yes, some no. Right click item in library and select Properties…
https://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en is a better tool for most file formats
2) All other things being equal, yes. Other things being not so equal, hard to say without knowing everything.
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