David Lord
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I was told that it’s common to convert AVCHD files, as they’re a difficult format to edit in. AVCHD files are compressed, so for premiere to work with them, it first has to uncompress, and then work with the footage including any effects, plug ins etc.. so its more taxing on the cpu than dealing with uncompressed files.
Deleting the old files will work for now, but I’m trying to figure out what I need to do when I’m working on a longer project, or even multiple projects at once. How much storage does everyone typically need?
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Sorry, I should clarify. My original footage is AVCDH, but I’ve converted it to DNxHD 170 to make the editing easier. The compressed format was way too choppy and glitchy to work with.
So yeah, I recorded about 5 hours or so worth of footage for the project, convered it to the DNxHD format, then imported all of it into my premiere project for editing the 4 minute video. Any advice on how I could do it differently? I eventually want to do longer projects. Should i invest in another camera?
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No, you’re right.. they’re 1080p. The last project I did was 1080i. I didn’t realize that could make such a huge difference. Thanks, I’ll give it a shot encoding them in the 175.
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Ahh, that’s good advice. Yes they are all on the same internal hard drive. I should look into getting a ssd, but they’re so expensive!
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ok, so I used the project manager to trim the clips, and Just to see if it worked, I moved the folder that had all my footage in it. (untrimmed) When I tried opening the project, premiere had to ask where all the files were, and when I went to the trimmed folder, none of the files it needed were there. I’m not sure what I did wrong.
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I just noticed also in the premiere folder, there are a lot of “auto saves” and also a ton of stuff in “preview files” where there is rendered footage, do I need to save any of that?
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alright, I figured it out. Sorry if I posted this question too hastily. But if anyone was curious it was the “Snap” button I somehow turned off. It’s the magnet above the video channels.
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ahh…that sucks, but at least I know not to waste anymore time with it… thanks.
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sorry, last question. would there be any benefit to exporting in h.264 over MPEG 4? that’s always what I used to export in.
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cool thanks! that sounds easier than I expected. but isn’t h.264 a high definition format? these are some old videos I recorded on mini dvr.