Dennis Radeke
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Why do you have to convert at all? If you’re editing on a Mac, Premiere Pro should read any QT file without any problems. I’ve also taken FCP capture ProRes clips and edited them on a PC Premiere Pro as well. You might have to plunk down the $29 for QT Pro, but I’m 99% positive all of the ProRes decoders are built into Quicktime today.
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To clarify Walter’s comment: With the CS4 release, what was a part of Premiere Pro is now it’s own application – Adobe Media Encoder. It is part of Production Premium.
The Adobe Media Encoder allows you to drop in files and convert to the typical formats like either Compressor or Episode. It works in the background now allowing you to keep working while you transcode/convert. From within Premiere you can send a timeline for output and keep working in Premiere Pro. It also has the speech-to-text functionality.
Many of AME’s codecs are based from Main Concept, which is a good codec company.
Given all three, I would probably agree with Walter that Episode is the best all around encoding product, but try all three to see what works best for you.
Hope this helps.
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For this reason, you should consider the Quadro CX. I have one and the GPU efficiencies to Premiere Pro are only the three GPU enabled effects. Not that big of a deal. However, it also adds a very fast, very efficient H.264 encoder into the Adobe Media Encoder which makes encoding several orders faster. This is the secret sauce in the product for my money. In addition, I’ll mention that it offers GPU acceleration wherever Adobe adds it in CS4, so in particular After Effects and Photoshop both have some benefits to having a card like a Quadro CX.
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With CS4 – you have the ability to import/export AAF and Adobe pretty much reads any codec on your system. It’s Premiere 4.0.1 which is a recent update
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Yes it comes across as DVCProHD but it has to be rewrapped as a quicktime first. Basically, the audio and video are extracted and saved as a .mov. Also the metadata gets stripped. Adobe provide native playback of an MXF (or AVCHD) file without rewrapping or transcoding. For DVCProHD, the camera metadata is automatically mapped where appropriate to the XMP schema.
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you might try downloading the free Apple Prores codecs and then see if it will play in Premiere pro. You’ll probably have to upgrade your quicktime to 7.5 as well.
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1 – No. It doesn’t need to as Jon mentioned. Adobe tries to handle all media in their native (read not converted) format. That being said, Premiere Pro can read and playback both ProRes and DNxHD files once you load those free codecs onto your system. It’s really the best of both worlds.
2 – Yes, but Adobe has more work to do. The GPU acceleration of CS4 is more around After Effects and Photoshop. Premiere Pro does have 3 GPU accelerated effects on the Windows side.
3 – Yes and in fact it has an old (FCP 3) version of the shortcuts built in. Plus you can make your own… -
Did you try rendering the clip with a freeze frame and then reimport it into your timeline? Possible workaround at worst.
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Adobe’s Soundbooth and Audition both have tools to remove Wind Noise. Essentially, all you have to do is select a section of audio that is only wind noise, tell Sb or Au that it is noise and then remove it. I didn’t look at this tutorial, but it sounds like this would give you insight on how to do it.
https://www.wrigleyvideo.com/videotutorial/tutdes_soundbooth_noisecancel.htm
The thing for me is that both Adobe products allow you a 3 dimensional view of audio (time, frequency, amplitude) vs. a waveform view which is 2 dimenional (time, amplitude)
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I think it has to do with something in how FCP captures HDV. The one thing you could try is to render out your clips in Pro-Res and then have your Premiere Pro customer download the Apple Pro-Res decoders onto his Windows platform and give it a go.
With XDCAMEX, Premiere reads the native files so you could potentially export an EDL, and let Premiere relink to the original media.
Just a couple of thoughts…