Katy Garton
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Thanks for the suggestion, Kevin. We are working on a Mac with Mountain Lion, so the video card driver updates with the OS (as is my understanding), which we keep up to date. After we turned off GPU acceleration on the iMac we have not experienced any issues. We’ll turn it back on at some point to see if the issue arises again. Maybe it could be the specific footage we’re working with that is giving us the problem.
Katy Garton
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Phil, I did an XML export from FCP to Premiere- it worked great, but the reference files in FCP and now in Premiere are linked to transcoded files. I was wondering if it was worth starting over since not much editing has been done and working with native… or since all the footage is already transcoded and linked in the project file if I should just stick to transcoded.
the imac: Processor 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7, Memory 16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3, Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 6970M 1024 MB
macbook pro: Processor 2.8 GHz, Memory 8 GB of RAM, Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
thanks!
Katy Garton
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thank you all for your great feedback
Dennis that is great information about premiere and codecs/frame rate/frame size… I’m assuming this means native or transcoded it’s all good to just pop it all on the timeline. But on that note, I want to take this opportunity to learn as much as possible for future reference. Dennis, you said, “I recommend converting from H.264, AVCHD or other longGOP formats to an I-frame codec (like ProRes) for two reasons only: 1 – your system is a bit older and you it can’t keep up (fairly unusual) 2- you don’t find the editorial experience satisfying with LongGOP formats (scrubbing longGOP video is MUCH more CPU intensive!)”
Do you mean specifically that since the footage is already transcoded and I’ll be editing the transcoded material, I should convert the H.264, AVCHD or other longGOP formats for the reasons stated or does this apply to native footage as well- meaning, I hadn’t transcoded, would you still advise me to transcode and convert the H264, AVCHD, LongGOP footage while keeping the other footage native. just curious- getting my bases covered for all my projects, present and future.
As for my system, yea the laptop is old, the imac is brand new and I’m thinking of getting a mac mini for a second machine since my macpro/maxx digital server is the work horse. any thoughts about premiere with the mac mini/imac?
Thanks so much!
Katy Garton
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and what about using different codes/frame sizes… does premiere handle this better with native or transcoded, or the same?
Should I convert the go pro footage to 23.98 before editing it with the 23.98 footage it in as I would have with FCP or with Premiere does it matter? WHat about the panasonic 720p footage? In FCP I was advised to leave it and just increase the scale within FCP, what about with Premiere. Thoughts?
Katy Garton
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Oh I see- so only if they want a copy to view with say Quicktime do I have to export and change the size (654×480), right?
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I shot it on a PD170 48 KHz and then captured DV-NTSC 48 KHz