Dennis Radeke
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As a reminder, with CS4, you can import entire FCP projects including ProRes into Premiere Pro. If that’s your goal, don’t torture yourself, just export your FCP XML and move the media over to the PC (MacDrive is very nice for this) and open it up in Premiere Pro. The note about the decoder is probably not necessary assuming you have a newer version of quicktime.
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With CS3, you still have a lot of the functionality. You can import an entire Premiere Pro project into AE. You can also share via Adobe’s Dynamic Link an AE comp into Premiere Pro.
The new bit in CS4 is that you can select a portion of the PPro timeline and replace it with an After Effects comp which takes all the media from your timeline and rebuilds it. It’s definitely neat.
Lastly, the Final Cut Pro importer is new with CS4. They’ve shown a Final Cut Pro exporter as well but it’s not publicly available and FCP7 breaks this functionality… 🙁
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If you have Premiere Pro CS4 as well as After Effects, you could take the entire FCP project, import it into Premiere Pro and then send the sections you need (or the entire project) to After Effects.
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The thing you have to remember with Final Cut is that it really has to see QuickTime. Premiere Pro on the PC can see a number of codecs including Quicktime. If you’re going to log your clips with Premiere Pro and then edit in FCP, just be sure that you create a Premiere Pro preset that allows you to capture in Quicktime.
As for drives, I have used G-Tech for years and they have always been very good to me.
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We’re both dinosaurs, but the linking and PDF manuals are okay. I’ll probably only look at a printed manual once or twice a year, but it is ‘comforting’ to have it. Oh well…
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I can only comment on the Premiere side, but in the capture window you do have device settings. In addition to a Panasonic Generic, there are a number of devices. I would play around with those to see if you have one that will work for you. Good luck.
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“It’s the reason why Adobe products are still not 64 bit in Mac, but they are in PC.”
Most Adobe products are not 64 bit native on either platform. There are a couple of exceptions however:
Photoshop is 64 bit native on Windows
Lightroom is 64 bit native on either platform (cocoa development on Mac from the start)Premiere Pro and After Effects take advantage of 64bit memory addressing on EITHER platform. This means that not only are both applications able to address all of your CPU cores, but you can address up to 3.5GB of RAM per core. In my opinion, this is the single biggest advantage of a 64bit OS. I blogged on this some time ago if you’re interested.
https://blogs.adobe.com/genesisproject/2009/03/64_bit_os_and_adobe_products.html
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“This is probably the straw that break my back as to get workflow productivity benefits I have to now weigh up investing in a new Mac or going to PC and Adobe.”
This is always curious to me that people think they have to go to a PC to use Adobe products. Adobe suites have been cross platform (including video apps) for 2 versions now. You do NOT have to go to a PC to do video editing for Adobe (or Avid for that matter).
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I am curious at how Premiere Pro is lousy at capture? Any standard firewire codec (DV, HDV) comes across no problem and of course tape based HD material needs a hardware I/O card, but file based HD codecs are almost all natively supported and DOES NOT require a ‘capture’ process at all. The list includes P2, AVCHD, XDCAM EX, XDCAM HD and of course RED files. As for a list of transitions, I tend to agree that it has a short list for two reasons. First, most editors are doing cuts and too many people never use some of these transitions anyway, so why make some of them? Second, Adobe’s great strength is a wide array of 3rd party plugin partners that can provide specific features that you may require.
As for outputting Quicktime HD – you do that through the Adobe Media Encoder. File>Export>Media will launch it. Choose quicktime and access any codec that Quicktime supports. It does background processing and batch processing so you can continue edit while you’re outputting.
Encore has its proponents and its detractors so I’ll let you figure that one out, but I will point out it that is a cost effective solution to output blu-ray on a Mac.
As for comparing to FCP, comparing any two NLE’s is an exercise in opinion as I tend to think that all NLE’s have something good to talk about. The things that are good about Premiere Pro include better integration with After Effects, Photoshop and the rest of the suite, superior tapeless support, metadata and mixing media.
My .25 cents. 😉
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You can look at Panasonic’s download software section to see if there is a transcoder that will fit your workflows. For example, a lot of AVCHD users like to convert their files to p2 to get better performance and Panasonic provides an AVCHD to P2 transcoder. There may be a similar product for what your needs are.