Dennis Radeke
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Yes, but if there is clip spanning, you may have some issues.
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Lance would be the one who can answer that perhaps. He’s used most NLE’s at one point or another. All NLE’s have a few things that others don’t have.
If you’re an AE user though, I think you’ve answered your own question, no other NLE has the tight integration with After Effects like Premiere Pro does.
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Maybe you had it on a dual monitor system and now its over there. Try trashing your preferences and see if that helps.
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There is also XDCam 50 which is 4:2:2. It really comes down to a couple of factors:
1 – drive space (prores will be significantly more). If that’s a problem, go with MXF OP1a
2 – type of editing. Both codecs are good and you can ‘blow up’ XDCam reasonably well like ProRes though I’d give the quality advantage to ProRes (though I’ve not done any true testing) If you’re going to zoom in a lot (say 250% plus) I’d probably use ProRes.
3 – speed of scrubbing vs. your system. If you have a newer system with lots of RAM and so forth, then go back to items #1,2. If you have a old system with mediocre ram, etc. then ProRes may provide a smoother editing experience.HTH,
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Sounds like you’d rather edit on your Mac but look at the power of the PC as superior. If you want to stay on CS6 because of cost, then you pretty much understand the options and the Avid LE codec, while not ideal, is definitely usable.
If you want to move to CC, then ProRes is included on the Mac and native DNx is included on both Mac and PC. Plus you will be able to leverage the GPU card on your imac and get hardware acceleration.
Regardless, welcome to the world of video and good luck!
Dennis – Adobe guy
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What is your target deliverable? If it is 1080, then check the option in Premiere Pro’s preferences to scale all media to frame size, start any 1080 timeline and start editing. Premiere Pro will automatically scale and raster the image @ 1080.
If however, you want to edit and deliver 5k, the more you spend the better you will perform. Also note the new ‘set to frame size’ option which re-scales but does not raster the image so you can do pan and scan type work with the large frame material.
32GB is a minimum in my book and obviously some kind of semi-decent RAID to push the media through. The GPU’s come in handy because with Premiere Pro CC 2014, we utilize the GPU to help debayer RED material so that you can get a higher quality playback with effects than previously. D500’s & 6core sounds about right but ultimately see if you can test it on a system to get a sense of performance to make sure it meets your expectations and then plan accordingly.
Hope this helps,
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[Nayeli Garci-Crespo] “I guess I’ll have to do some tests to see what kinds of issues crop up from using those settings instead of all-intra.”
I think that’s the best course of action both in terms of what type of editing you do (native or transcoding) and edit platform (Premiere Pro, FCP X or other).
Generally speaking (at least for Premiere Pro), editing natively is a question of scrubbing vs the system you’re putting it on and what kind of performance expectations you want to see. If you want blazingly fast timeline scrubbing of longGOP material on an old MBP with 8GB of RAM and a non-SSD drive, well then you might want to rethink that. If however, you have a reasonably current system, adequate RAM, GPU, drives, etc. then the experience is for many editors terrific – again depending on what success looks like to you.
So, I’d give both NLE platforms a try and see how they work for you in this situation and make a decision based on that. Creative Cloud is free for 30 days which should give you time enough to form an opinion.
One last thing – if you’re looking at a transcoded workflow, then remember that Adobe Media Encoder has a watch folder capability which would allow you to transcode your material in the background.
Good luck!
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Hi Hadeel,
Saying MXF is like saying I have a fast car – it doesn’t really tell you anything. MXF is a container that can have many different things inside it, just like Quicktime can.
If you’re having problems, I am guessing that the video essence is something like AVC-Intra 50 or 100 which is more challenging to decode than something like DVCPro100.
Two suggestions for you.
1 – 4GB is just not enough, period. With that laptop, you can expand the RAM to 16GB. You really should expand to 8GB at a minimum. This should make a difference
2 – In the program and source views, there is a pull down option towards the bottom that may be saying ‘full’. Consider taking that down to ‘1/2’ and see if that helps youThe other thing to check out or at least verify is that your hard drive is adequately sending you the frames. Check to make sure the drive is fast enough.
Hope this helps,
Dennis – Adobe guy -
This has been discussed many times before but there are several large facilities using Premiere Pro in production. I am primarily involved with many of these large accounts and cannot mention them all since we would need permission, but it includes TV news groups, episodic programs, soaps, US sporting federations and their affiliated teams, multi-network brands, etc.
Names that are public include CNN, Hearst TV, Saturday Night Live, and several football and baseball teams.
You can also check out success stories at adobe.com as well as the vendor sponsored Adobe page at provideocoalition (link would get flagged, so won’t bother posting)…
Hope this helps,
Dennis – Adobe guy