[Axel Arzola]

If I remember well, when you press alt the tool will invert the selection. I don’t have Premiere with me right now, but will check and give you a better answer soon.

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Try creating you 24 bit project in Audition before sending the clip from Premiere

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Muticam emulates a live switcher, as Roel mentioned, you can do your rough cut on the multi cam and tune it on the timeline with the regular tools.
But if you want to change a clip to a different angle the fastest way is to select it in the timeline and hit the angle number you want it to change to. In the timeline you can use the jkl and pg up & pg down to move to previous and coming cuts.

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I think the easiest thing you could do is just get a CF card reader and transfer your files that way.
If your FCP X has the “copy files to Final Cut Pro events folder” then you just put your CF in the card reader, and drag and drop the files into the FCP event you want them.

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Did you got the Java update for you OSX 10.7?
I know that there where some graphic issues with the OS and maybe that could be the problem.

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For FCP user having to encode seems the normal way of doing things, but if your computer can handle the original AVCHD then go for it.

Something that I have done in big projects where running multi cam and more than 5 video feeds at the same time is down converting all my footage to mpg1 just to edit, and when Im ready to color correct and export, I just have to relink to the original AVCHD and everything will be just fine.

About the 30fps, my advice is to get some 60p footage inside your sequence and export it on 30p to see if there is a big noticeable difference. If you have a lot of footage, having to transcode all before editing can take a long time.
Maybe a good solution will be edit in a 60p sequence with the original files and after you are done, export the final edit on 30p

Good luck.

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That never happened to me before.
What about using Looks on After Effects? Has the same issue?.
It looks you are going to have to work on single monitor while color correcting your project.

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I had the same issue working with 7D footage on previous versions of Premiere, but really is just while you are editing because as you said there will be no problem after you export your edit.
You could try a different codec, and also try installing a codec pack (K-Lite has always worked fine for me).

Also try to use your original files if possible, maybe that could help.

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If that is the case, working with DNG is going to be a nightmare on a heavy FX project. Why can Premiere handle RED r3d natively by changing playback resolution? Shouldn’t be the same with DNG’s?

Using AE is vital to fix many problems in post. I hope they come up with some solutions for this.
Thanks for the comment.

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When you work with 4k sequences your pixel res will be 4096×2304. If your original Jpgs are big enough to fit this size without loosing too much quality then that will be your best preset.

If you start with 1620×1080 sequence, and export to a higher resolution, you will loose quality, because Premiere will bump up the scale to fit your desire frame size.

For example, if you have high resolution Jpgs, and your desire is to have several versions of the final product with different flavors(2k, 1080p, 720p etc) the best choice is to start from your original footage resolution and then down compress the final edited video, but never the other way around.

Here is a table with all the settings, please check it for accurate reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_resolutions

Premiere has native 4k sequences and is higher than 1620×1080.
The preview resolution is just for faster editorial process, you can change it to match your computer power, and if the bad quality hurts your eyes, there is a paused resolution option that you can keep high to see how your footage really looks.

If your are making a time-lapse I assume that will be easier if you put all the Jpgs one after the other on the sequence, export that as a video and then apply Ken Burns to make it look better. Maybe I’m just thinking about a different type of time-lapse…… never mind.

About the 16:9 vs 3:2 ratio….. If your final product is a video, I recommend 16:9, if you are using a FULL FRAME sensor camera, then probably you will get 16:9 images natively.

I hope this is helpful, after picturing in my mind the issues you are facing, and trying to think how to fix them I feel the need of seeing the final product. At the end of the day that is what makes us feel good about spending money and time doing what we do.

Good luck

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