[Dennis Radeke]

Premiere Pro is a multi-threaded application on both PC and Mac. I think you can address around 3.5GB of RAM per processor core. Meaning if you have an 8 core machine you could use over 20GB of RAM.

I’m sure FCS3 will get you there but if you already have FCS2, buy the tower and get by until FCS3 is out. If you’ve got Adobe’s Production Premium suite, you can also give Premiere Pro a try through the FCP import function and test to see which renders faster.

[Dennis Radeke]

I’m sure this is already mentioned in several of the replies already but you should definitely check out the RED forums and investigate the products and workflows that are out there.

One of the things that’s interesting about the new Adobe workflow is that you are editing the native .R3D files but can alter your playback resolution. In essence you can edit ‘virtual proxies’ Premiere Pro 4.1 will also allow you to access the source settings to allow access in the NLE of exposure, contrast, tint, kelvin, etc.

As for conforming in Adobe, the one usually recommended is to import your Premiere Pro project into After Effects and output whatever you need (usually DPX files).

Good luck.

[Dennis Radeke]

CS4 has a FCP importer and chances are, if the footage is SD, you do not even need to convert to Prores to edit it. Regardless, export an XML file from FCP and open it in Premiere Pro and you should be good to go.

[Dennis Radeke]

tee hee hee… 😉

[Dennis Radeke]

FCP likes Quicktime and just about nothing else. If the HDV files were captured as Apple QT via FCP, then Premiere Pro could read it, but not the other way around. If you really need to interact with FCP for this project but can’t recapture, you could use the adobe media encoder to create Apple compatible files (maybe DV100) and then create a Premiere Pro preset that will also read them.

[Dennis Radeke]

There is no difference between the EDU version and the normal retail version of the product. If you are an educator or student, it’s definitely the best way to purchase Adobe products.

[Dennis Radeke]

Luis,

CS3 will allow you to create a CMX EDL which should be readable by Avid
Automatic Duck will allow you to ‘translate’ the timeline from one product to another (Avid/Adobe/Apple)
CS4 will allow you to import and export an Avid AAF which could be better as well.

[Dennis Radeke]

Premiere Pro supports native p2 .mxf files in version CS3 and above. If the file has been captured as DV100 QT, Premiere Pro can read that as well.

[Dennis Radeke]

I could be wrong Shane, but I believe more recent versions of Quicktime include the Prores decoders right within the QT player. Premiere Pro can playback ProRes with no difficulty. This tutorial shows you how to go back and forth between FCP and Premiere Pro in CS3.

https://blogs.adobe.com/davtechtable/2007/06/adobe_production_premium_cs3_a.html#more

For CS4, Premiere Pro has a FCP importer and can recreate the timeline with a fairly high degree of accuracy. You would still want to create a custom preset in Premiere Pro to set up for a ProRes timeline.

hope this helps,
Dennis

[Dennis Radeke]

speech-to-text is a new feature inside of Premiere Pro CS4.

It takes dialog from your video and transcribes it to text which you can then copy and paste into a word document or whatever.

There are a number of variables to the accuracy of the transcription. Obviously a good audio source is #1. If you have ambient noise or music going in the background that will affect the quality.

However, even if you get 50% accuracy, that’s 50% you don’t have to type up!