John Hand
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Yes, you can scrub it. If you have a Pentium4 at 3 or higher, it should be fine.
Jon Hand
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The Color Finesse plugin (Premiere version) is definitely what you want. There is no other way… It’s expensive (comes bundled free with AfterEffects, but won’t work in Premiere Pro). This is without doubt the best Premiere plugin. I wouldn’t even consider editing with Premiere Pro without this little gem.
Jon R. Hand
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Red Giant plugins take anywhere from 10 to 50-times rendering time of original clip time. And no, you cannot duplicate the effect using built-in Premiere plugins.
Jon Hand
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Here is what you do:
Export timeline,
export to movie,
under General, Select Microsoft AVI
under video compressor, choose NONE,
make sure recompress is unchecked…
That’s it.
Your saved AVI timeline footage is pristine …..
However, file size really goes UP UP UP (80mb original DV becomes 725mb uncompressed).
Is it worth it. You bet it is.Jon R Hand
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Latest version of Twixtor (4.5 I believe) will do this within Premiere Pro. The slow motion quality in Twixtor is about 100% better than in AfterEffects.
good luck,
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Dustin,
The workflow between Premiere Pro and Audition is perhaps not what it should be. Maybe in the next release Adobe will improve it.
HOWEVER, there is a plugin I use now called SoundSoap 2, which works beautifully in Premiere Pro 1.5. It does real quick (and professional) noise reduction without having to set too many parameters. I use it now on everything I shoot. It’s under $100. Sony’s noise reduction filter is powerful, but you can edit audio directly on Premiere’s timeline with SoundSoap.
Jon R. Hand
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Hey folks… No arguing from me. I’m too old for that, and besides, this is not an issue to argue about. There are more important things in life to argue about (e.g. no one in the White House accepting the blame for a totally bogus war — now that is something to argue about).
Back to the encoders. Yes, we have the latest most recent ProCoder, and we did testing with it. And yes, it is NO better than the MainConcept. It does, however, offer a wealth of other conversions, so that may be a plus for some people. We also use the $2K full version of CinemaCraft, which, IF you are doing multiple VBR passes (3 or more), then you have well spent your money time and effort. It is the BEST, but only if you doing multiple pass VBR. The basic CinemaCraft encoder, as I said earlier, is the best you’ll get out of Premiere Pro for a reasonable price. So I’ll say this one more time. CinemaCraft Basic is tops, then MainConcept. Forget about ProCoder and spend you’re money on Color Finesse, Sapphire, or Magic Bullet Editors…
Jon
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Aanarav is quite correct; direct to MPEG2 from timeline using Procoder. You don’t need to render a AVI first.
In my studio we’ve used and tested quite a few encoders over the years. Procoder (full or express) does NOT do a better job than the built-in MainConcept PremierePro encoder. Your mind may tell you so (because it costs MORE money), but it simply isn’t true. MainConcept is actually very very good.
If you need a “slightly” higher quality MPEG2, then purchase the CinemaCraft Basic, which produces visibly better results than either Procoder or MainConcept (but NOT by much).
All in all, the quality of all these encoders is quite spectacular.
Jon R. Hand