[David Brook]

Thanks, I’ve tried that but it still doesn’t work. I’m doing something similar as a workaround – doing the cropping and sizing and a chroma key, adding a white background, in a compound clip and then blending that – but it’s a bit of a faff and with having two different keying effects (chroma key & blend mode) it’s losing a bit of the shadow definition. So if anyone has any other ideas I’d be grateful.

[David Brook]

Sorry for the delayed reaction – I’ve been off doing something else so didn’t get chance to try your suggestions. Neither of Paul’s suggestions worked I’m afraid. I need to upgrade I think and face the fact that I’m going to have to cart the hefty old Mac Pro over to an office with internet access!

I ended up doing it the slow and painful way after all for this film.

Thanks anyway guys.

[David Brook]

I gave that a go and it still didn’t fix the problem unfortunately.

[David Brook]

I did fix it although I did a number of things.

I updated to the latest Creative Cloud version of Premiere Pro.

I upgraded my RAM.

and I saved the project file on my main internal hard drive (my project spans 3 at the moment!)

Hope that’s of help.

[David Brook]

Problem solved. I should have used the Media Browser to import footage instead of just importing or dragging and dropping it from finder.

All running smoothly now.

David

[David Brook]

It’s me again. OK, I’ve got my first actual batch of RED footage to use and when I imported it this time it comes in fine, although it’s imported all the individual files from the clips including any spanned ones (and now the wrappers too since I installed REDCODE).

Is there something I’m doing wrong as I’m sure with my test footage the files conformed to single clips per clip in Premiere? Unless my test shots were all under 1 min, but I thought there were one or two longer ones in there.

It’s just a bit awkward having multiple files for each clip and I don’t know whether I’m can happily delete the extra ones or not. Each file I click on from a spanned clip plays the whole thing identically so I’m not sure what to do about it.

The only thing that noticeably went wrong on importing from the RED brick hard drive that I’m aware of is that one single file (one of the R3D ones from a spanned clip) was corrupted and would drag over to either of my hard drives, so I skipped that file in the end.

Any thoughts?

David

[David Brook]

Networking wouldn’t really work with the way I want to be working unfortunately, but thanks for the suggestion. And yes, we’ll be backing everything up – that’s the edit assistant’s main job, making sure that is done as soon as possible and keeping a unified file management structure on all the drives (as you mentioned). I’m not sure about audio yet – I still need to speak to the recordist to find out his plans. I’ll probably be doing the syncing myself on the main project I imagine.

It’s a RED ONE. Our Mac Pro is a few years old, so not top of the range, but still pretty decent. It’s got 2x 2.8GHz Quad-core Intel Zeon processors, 8GB RAM and has 3x ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT graphics cards. I tried whacking a few clips on the timeline and chucked a couple of basic colour and crop/overlay effects on and it seemed to handle it fine at 1/4 quality. Fingers crossed it retains this once the timeline starts to fill up! The MacBook Pro wasn’t as happy though – it needed to be on 1/8, but seemed manageable. That is only really going to be used to check through footage and log it etc. though so it’s no big deal.

Yeah I’ve been running a few tests yesterday and today and so far things are working out smoothly (fingers crossed).

Thanks for all the help.

David

[David Brook]

Fantastic, that was just what I was after – seems to work a treat.

Thanks

David

[David Brook]

Oh and I was planning on editing the 4K footage natively (but putting playback on 1/4 quality). This seems to work fine on the test I did with previous footage.

[David Brook]

Great, thanks for the help guys. That’s a coincidence, we did a video for the Wilderspin museum a couple of years ago too! We have a couple of contacts in museum trusts around the area, although it’s been a while since we’ve worked with any of them. I’ll have to start rebuilding some bridges.

I’ll look into BBFC classification too. Hopefully it won’t be a problem.

Cheers.