David Dobson
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c: 369GB Free (out of 500GB)
Footage Drive: 196GB Free (out of 750GB) -
I switch back and forth regularly.
The only really frustrating part about the switch is all the keyboard shortcuts being slightly different.
Basic editing is the same in any system – it’s all the tricks and shortcuts and special things that you did FCP that you’ll have to relearn in PPro that will make you wish you hadn’t switched. Get past that before you give up on it. Ppro does some things much better than FCP….things you might not even think of trying since they don’t exist in FCP (and vice versa).
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Are you playing back the H.264 video using quicktime? I have noticed that the quicktime player (and I have the latest version of QT) do not playback H.264 very well. I notice lag in the QT player for 10MB/sec video but not in 3MB/s clips. I have no problem playing back the 10MB/s video using Nero’s media player (the latest version too.)
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Seriously check out Help – top right of the program window.
When you create a new project in CS3, you HAVE to pick the settings.
So create a new project and look for that.
You can Right Click on any clip to check out it’s properties. -
If you are in CS4 – then every time you create a new sequence it prompts you for the settings. In the version previous to CS4 your sequence settings are determined by the project settings. So go and create a NEW project and make sure that the setting for the project match the settings for your Video. Import a clip of video and put it on the timeline – it should now NOT show you the red render bar and it should not need to be rendered. If you’ve done a bunch of logging of footage in the other project, just import the projects. If you are using CS4 – then create new sequence with the right settings.
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Technically, you can export from any format to any format.
But yes, I have exported H.264 from HDV and from AVCHD (and everything else.) -
good to know – I might try XP64 instead of Vista then…
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Thanks You! That is fantastic.
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Which HD format did you shoot in? Generally speaking – if the sequence settings match the video settings – you should not need to render the timeline at all. So if you drop your Video Clip onto the time line and you get the red render bar – then you have the wrong settings.If what you mean is that you are exporting the sequence out to a video clip through, say the Media Encoder, then it is possible that it would take 20 minutes to decompress and recompress each 2 minute clip. Say you are going from AVCHD 1080i to H.264 400x225p at 2.5 MB/s – sure it could take forever.
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“you can opt to use the rendered files from the timeline for your final export”
Really – how do you do this in CS4.
I really need to this feature – it could save hours of rendering time in AME that was already done (in HD) in PPro.