Angelo Lorenzo
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I think you’d have better lick in the main forum… this beginners forum is always slightly dead.
With that said, here is what I know:
1) If your files come in natively as ProRes then you’re fine. As long as you’re using a Mac and have at least one Apple pro app installed (like fcp or compressor or whatever) then you’ll have full support for ProRes.
You can capture from tape as long as you have a firewire deck or use an I/O card like an AJA Kona or Blackmagic Decklink. The latter wont allow deck control but should let you capture video with timecode. I rarely work with tape so I’m foggy on the details.
Premiere can work natively with P2, AVCHD, and XDCAM. Copy the full file structure of their card’s media to your hard drive. Within Premiere go to Menu > Window > Media Browser. These types of clips which rely on multi-file clips possibly spanned between different folders can only be properly imported this way. There is no log and transfer that uses transcoding. You can do something similar to log and transfer with Prelude which will allow you to copy and transcode materials.
As far as laying to tape, this may be of some use https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/3/930624
Premiere Pro CS6 does support caption files, look at their help documentation for more detail but you may want to keep FCP7 around for a little as you compare the two and their performance for laying to tape.
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Copying a file is content agnostic; a bit is a bit.
I assume you’re using Mac since you mention ProRes and the error, thanks to Google, points to the fact that you may be copying a file larger than 4gb onto a drive formatted in a way that doesn’t support it like a FAT32 formatted drive. While FAT32 is cross-platform it also has a 4gb single file limit.
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I’ve tested all of the available Quicktime options. I found there to be a color shift regardless of the program controlling the encoding that wasn’t related to the “quicktime gamma issue”. Off the top of my head, within quicktime you’re offered an 8-bit and 10-bit that I think are 4:2:2 YUV.
You have more options with the AVI exports BUT since I export a lot of RED footage, Redcine-X does not support exporting in AVI, so no point in using it. I suppose, since it comes to mind if I should process the RED files through AME to an AVI file and see if that shift still stands.
I’ve tried AVI dailies in Speedgrade, but it hits the oldschool AVI 4gig limit hard and will corrupt files.
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Check your DVD/Stereo/TV. Make sure it’s processing stereo correctly instead of doing some pseudo 5.1 processing where it’ll place the center of a stereo channel in the center speaker, leaving L and R for side signal only.
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You could export to uncompressed (I’ve lately switched from Blackmagic to AJA’s uncompressed 10-bit Quicktime codec) and then encode to ProRes using command line tools like FFMPEG or FFMBC.
I’ve made a program specifically to manage batching large amounts of files to ProRes (link in my sig) but it sounds like you can get away with just rendering out one or two deliverables via the command line.
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It’s MPEG-2 IMX 50 NTSC, according the the FourCC code. I’d just try renaming the extension to mp4 to see if Premiere will skip using Quicktime internally; It may read it that way. It’s the first thing I’d try.
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I would think this means BMD support as well. Adobe uses an abstraction layer known as Mercury Transmit. If they implemented that into Speedgrade then it should support every current CS6 output card… in theory.
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Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe that ASIO is Windows only; Mac OSX doesn’t suffer from the same latency issues. If it shows up as an audio device in OSX then you should be set.
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Right click item in bin > Modify > Interpret Footage > type in 24 for fps. This works much like Cinema Tools without needing an extra app.
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It will work just fine if your computer can handle it. Edit: You’re running CS4? Convert the file, CS4 isn’t as optimized as newer versions in handling h.264
If you have an older computer, you may find benefit in downloading GoPro Studio. This comes with the GoPro Cineform codec (Since before GoPro owned it, Cineform has and remains a respected editing codec). Converting your video to Cineform is much like using ProRes in Final Cut.
If you have Premiere on the same computer as Final Cut, you may see some benefit from converting to ProRes as well. Easy and familiar if you’re from a FCP world and aren’t experience the performance you’d like editing a native file.
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Angelo LorenzoNeed to encode ProRes on your Windows PC?
Introducing ProRes Helper, an awesome little app that makes it possible
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