[Frank Tourv]

Thanks! I have a 4tb r4 which is about 1/3 of your storage/raid speed but only 1 4k proresHQ going so i should be fine!

[Frank Tourv]

Currently in the exact same situation, and im fairly certain it does not do 120fps Incam. Your best bet for 120fps is the odyssey 7q at 1080p. However i have not tested it yet.

[Frank Tourv]

Just make sure you delete the xml,sif,cif,cpa(and empty trash) before it touches any adobe program, including prelude. If you do import with the metadata files(any of them), you need to delete them – clean cache(premiere cache, im not sure if prelude has a cache system) – start a new project.

Glad to help.

[Frank Tourv]

the metadata is there for the Canon XF utility app and the c300 itself which is somewhat useful for viewing clips and transferring, but i find it more useful to do an all adobe workflow using Prelude to get data off the cf card to two separate harddrives simultaniously and previewing my footage. After that, i send my stuff to premiere(you can also skip the prelude part and just drag and drop your stuff through finder also).

Note that deleting these will unable final cut X from importing these MXFs using the canon XF plugin for fcpX. In a weird way, fcpX needs the metadata, while premiere doesnt want it. This is a flaw from adobe only related to the canon c100/300/500 – dslrs dont cause this problems, so does XMLs from Sony cameras.

[Frank Tourv]

I have resolved the c300 problem(and i had plenty of stuff shot with it), by deleting the .xml,.cif,.sif and occasional .cpf of every folder. I use the finder and delete them in bunch(and dont forget to empty trash),only leaving the .mxf. Note that once you have done that, you need to create a new project, clean the media cache and then re-import every c300 files. So far that handled it completely.

[Frank Tourv]

Same issues here, i have found a few workarounds but so far nothing constant.

a) Send to Audition – audition export OMF. I had good success but not perfect. The good thing is that with this it works or it doesnt. You dont get the ”missing 40files” that omf export out of premiere sometimes does. Audition nails it perfect or you get 1400 missing files(everything).

b) XML export to FCP 7 – FCP 7 OMF. This works fine but it hasnt been superb. FCP 7 nails omf relatively well but i had many issues over the years.

c) XML export – load xml in audition – audition export. The omf seems successful but loading a 45 min timeline of .mov audio in audition seems to crash it on a regular basis.

Sadly.. nothing perfect so far… Next Premiere CC update(8.0.0) is supposed to improve AAF exports(which are horrible in Premiere).

[Frank Tourv]

Major bump but having a similar situation. So far your solution is the best one, but it is still a very lengthy process to subclip everything… As there been any improvements for this since then? I think many Assistant editors have to deal with the pluraleyes – make subclips/clips with the multi track audio.

So far only Premiere hits a homerun because it has its own audio sync(which creates clips of its own). I cant speak for FCP X though…

[Frank Tourv]

Tv station here, we have ran multiple shows with pp sp far – the first thing is that i hope you mean premiere cc and not cs6 – they are quite different, cc is immensly better.

Second – your graphics card is key here to run non-iframe codecs. If you have old nvidia cardS, your doomed. Get yourself a 2gb+ vram graphics card from nvidia/amd and you should be set.

In terms of long timeline, avid is still king but not by much. Premiere cc can handle long timelines, but dont start adding linked ae cc comps in theres and multi layers of graphics. With a strong supported graphics card, your gonna be just fine. Make sure you export your omf out of audition though(premiere – direct link to audition – audition makes the omf to protools) – omf and aaf exports out of premiere is not so good.

Im not so sure about the 4k – even the new macpro struggles, but i hear adobe is working on optimizing premiere for 4k footage and dual gpu support

[Frank Tourv]

First thing is look for a job first, then train after. Golden rule there. In terms of avid, if you master premiere of fcp, you will be fine with avid if you can spend time with it when ”no one is looking”. I was in your exact situation, fcp and premiere expert but never tried avid – i got a job for it at night and watched toronto’s and Ccow’s very own Kevin P Mcaullife’s video tutorial and it did the job for me. The only thing is if you can do your job at night and/or people won’t mind if you watch a tutorial video here and there. You can also ask for help from the editor, in general they are willing to help as you are helping them.

Aftereffects/pshop/illustrator is also a pretty solid skill to have, as you can do minor changes like ”oh can you change that to white” or something of the sort.

As far a work, def. ask EVERYWHERE, if you want a job, apply for 10-20 of them. If you have a computer, film student out of college sometimes need help for post, you can sometimes do their entire post – it won’t pay, but they will remember that and as they get careers you will be their editor of choice. Its also good practice on free projects.

Hope you get what you want. I started a year and half ago with no college education and now im working 70h a week on 4 TV productions as a tech direction and assistant editor. Work hard, do your homework and you will get it.

[Frank Tourv]

Guess will chime in on this, i work at a TV studio (food and travel channel, but in french).

– Footage comes in usually from Canon 5D mkiii. We use a Teranex 24TB SAN system, which is slow and cumbersome with 20min + projects. Its a leftover from the previous administrators that we are stuck with… Anyhow, h264 is uneditable because of the slowness of the system – we therefore have to convert h264 to Prores422LT via Prelude(rename things/add metadata) at the same time while we are at it.

– Once converted, in PPro it runs smoothly. Program is nice and i dont have much too say, there is only one issue : OMF exports and multicam. Multicam audio cannot be exported to OMF(protools doesnt open it). Audio then as to be flatten which sometimes doesnt keep the same timecode, crashes PPro and in general is a pain in the ass. Multicam sequence should be video only, audio should be kept to standard tracks and not multicamaudio at all costs(which is more trouble).

– Export to mpeg2mxf and we are set

The only issue with the workflow is def. the audio thing. If you have to deal with a lot of audio tracks and music a lot(therefore making protools crucial), i would back off until they fix the multicam/audio things.

Aside from that, its rolling