[David Mcgavran]

Hi John,

I agree with your points. If you want to render to a proxy up front, and you want to continually create preview files in a matching format, and you want to go back out to the same format then ref file export is very powerful. I do see the need for this workflow. As Walter mentions most of the feedback we get is people using broadcast formats that work natively with smart rendering or use native formats like h.264, red, XAVC, avc intra etc. With Mercury GPU and other options waiting to the end while a workflow adjustment is usually a win. Happy to continue the conversation. I am actually interested in a simple rendered EDL type workflow that would replace ref movies. Anybody out there have feedback on something in that area.

Cheers

Dave

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David McGavran, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Senior Engineering Manager Adobe Premiere Pro
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[David Mcgavran]

Being one of the engineers that has to deal with the changes in QuickTime… Those people who want ref movie export need to sit with me and have a beer so we can talk through it 🙂 What does it mean to have a reference movie pointing to mixed media codecs like .r3d, h.264, .arri, .mxf etc… Ref movies only work if you have a standard QuickTime based format for your timeline. Could we implement that in that 1 case? Yes we probably could but QuickTime 32 bit is overly deprecated by apple and ref movie isn’t really a feature in the 64 bits api’s so it is kind of a dead tech. (again happy to discuss this in depth and at length preferably with a beer in hand.) Our solution is to focus on smart rendering. So as example in Premiere Pro CC if you have pro res imports (dnxhd, dv, op1a etc), prores preview files and pro res exports we will do frame copies for every frame that doesn’t need to render. This drastically reduces render times.

Thoughts?

Dave

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David McGavran, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Senior Engineering Manager Adobe Premiere Pro
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[David Mcgavran]

Hi Greg,

Hope you enjoyed the demo and discussion. I had a great time showing you guys what we have been up to.

Cheers

Dave

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David McGavran, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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[David Mcgavran]

Mmmm Florida! Can’t make any promises as we are all traveling way too much recently but we will keep you on out list.

Cheers

Dave

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David McGavran, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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[David Mcgavran]

Ha, Sorry I missed you at NAB. Hoping to come to the Cutters as well, but also trying to stay home for a bit. Will see what happens. Sure would love to be there, always a good time.

Cheers

Dave

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David McGavran, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Senior Engineering Manager Adobe Premiere Pro
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[David Mcgavran]

And we will attach to the original media instead of duplicating masters…

Cheers

Dave

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David McGavran, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Senior Engineering Manager Adobe Premiere Pro
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[David Mcgavran]

Hi Nicholas,

Glad you enjoyed what we have to offer at NAB. The team is working really hard because we love allowing you guys to make great stuff. If you want to have a longer conversation reach out to me…

Cheers

Dave

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David McGavran, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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[David Mcgavran]

It gets even better than that…. Lets see if this workflow sounds familiar.

You have project A and I have project B.
I browse into your Project B on a network drive and look into a bin.
I can grab the masters and load them into my source monitor with your ins/outs and edit into my sequence
If you update your project my mediabrowser will update with your changes.
Also since we don’t duplicate masters it is really easy to setup a workflow here.

Looking forward to hear from you guys after you play with this.

Cheers

Dave

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David McGavran, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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[David Mcgavran]

Speedgrade already supports CinemaDNG from BlackMagic Cameras.

Cheers

Dave

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David McGavran, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Senior Engineering Manager Adobe Premiere Pro
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[David Mcgavran]

Yes you can import, clips, bins or sequences from other projects 🙂

Cheers

Dave

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David McGavran, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Senior Engineering Manager Adobe Premiere Pro
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