Dennis Radeke
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If you’re using CS4, why wouldn’t you use the Final Cut Pro importer function in Premiere Pro? You can also set up Premiere Pro so that it will read/edit Pro-res with ease.
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You’re right here of course – you need to know where the MXF came from. MXF is an open standard that is a container format that contains video, audio, metadata, etc.
Premiere Pro CAN create MXF by the way. You can take any media and export it as Panasonic’s P2 – the format most commonly referred to as MXF.
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You can edit Pro-Res inside of Premiere Pro with no problem (which is what FCP converts XDCAM to). Premiere Pro can create custom setups and you just need to know how. I point people to this blog:
https://blogs.adobe.com/davtechtable/2007/06/adobe_production_premium_cs3_a.html#moreThis should give you all you need to know. Hope this helps.
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In Premiere Pro, it natively supports .mxf files. In FCP, you must open up the Log and Transfer window and convert it to ProRes. Once it’s converted, you should have no problems using it in FCP.
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Michael was a unique guy in a city of unique people. I had worked with him since I had joined Adobe Systems over 4 years ago and he was unfailingly kind and caring. Michael truly was always thinking about helping the community and to the end he was supporting of them.
I have a message on my answering machine from him that I’ve played several times since his passing. An upbeat, kind and caring voice. True to form, he was inquiring about something that would help the creative community in NYC.
Our life here on Earth is described as a vapor in the Bible – gone so quickly. We surely wish that Michael’s had been with us a while longer.
You will be missed friend.
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If you’ve captured the footage in Premiere Pro you can either take it into FCP for whatever work you need to do or do it directly in Premiere Pro. Neither NLE has a terrific chroma key, but in Premiere Pro, you can send the clip(s) to After Effects where you can use the included Keylight plugin.
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Hmm, sounds weird.
A couple of minor observations. It might be some little bug that is a combination of the things you’re running. I noticed that you’re not using the latest version of FCP (6.0.5) nor the latest Mac OS. Assuming you’re using the Sony plug-in to translate your XDCAM to ProRes, which should open up fine in Premiere Pro 4.0.1.
I always use XML type 4 (never tried the others but 4 has always worked for me). Have you checked out this particular blog video?
https://blogs.adobe.com/davtechtable/2008/11/new_cs4_and_final_cut_import.html#more
Not that this is probably going to fix it, but if you can update to 6.0.5, you might give that a go as it’s free.
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“Primatte and KeyLight are available in Shake and simplified versions are in AE ”
To my knowledge there is no lite version of Keylight from the Foundry in After Effects. If you use After Effects, you get a full license of KeyLight.
Check out this link: https://thefoundry.co.uk/pkg_overview.aspx?ui=A5FB8E97-D752-4E01-AC7D-17B39B7E1192
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Michael,
Lets agree to disagree shall we? 😉
BTW when I say spectral frequency view, I didn’t say that was the method for noise reduction. Maybe you should try it before you draw conclusions?
I have based my assessment of this technology on being a lifelong musician with a college degree in music who has been a former pro audio salesperson who has evaluated lots of audio software over the course of the last 20 years. That’s not to say your opinion isn’t valid, just that mine is too. 😉
You also didn’t address the matter of cost – it seems that most CEDAR products cost more than Final Cut Studio and Adobe Production Premium combined. It may be the best, but it’s also not practical for most users here. I also did not find any MAC products there, but I could be completely wrong on that one.
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Zane,
You would probably know better than I, but I will say that ProRes among other codecs has been bundled into later versions of QT. To that end, I took Apple DVCProHD (as ProRes) and Apple HDV and several other codecs on a single timeline on Mac. It played fine. Then I took the hard drive over to an XP system and opened up the project. I played every clip with no problem.