Ken Barnes
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Hi Liz,
Yes, the sequence will be 4K and the clip will appear as 4K (and the size in the canvas will appear as if 4K, even when toggle proxy is ‘on’ (blue means you are in proxy). The proxy files exist wherever you chose to put them and are referenced in proxy mode. It shouldn’t be too choppy unless your sequence is super long and you have a lot of mixed resolution media. It seems Premiere struggles with that. In some cases you may have to view 1/4 resolution, even in proxy mode.Not sure what computer you use and what graphics card, which can make a lot of difference. I have a stock iMac 5K 2015 and it sometimes works too hard…
I was hoping my shrink would solve all MY problems, but I realized that he had a bunch of his own. Editing makes me forget about them for days on end! ☺
Ken
‘It’s not a question of becoming. It’s a question of uncovering what you really are, of letting everything that is not yourself fall away’. – Journey to Ladakh
I think this applies to editing as well….
Ken Barnes, Producer, Director, Editor
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Hi Tina,
I just finished a long 4K drama. There is no need to transcode anything outside of Premiere. Import the 4K footage and then make a proxy within Premiere. It’s easy but difficult to explain here. Search ‘create proxy in premiere cc’ on YouTube and you’ll find heaps of help. So you can’t avoid transcoding, but at least Premiere makes it easy.It takes a while to process all the clips and you’ll need to tell Premiere where to put the new proxy files on your system and the space to store them. (there’s no way to avoid the additional files) I don’t think it matters if they’re on the same drive. Of course, everything should be backed up to yet more drives.
Once done, you simply add a ‘toggle proxy’ button to your canvas window and click it to switch back and forth between 4K and proxy (whatever resolution you set up). When the button is blue, it means it’s playing the proxy. There is a slight difference in aspect but hardly noticeable except when you add a photo frame from one of the video clips. Make sure you take any photos from video in full 4K mode. Otherwise it will look smaller. (I occasionally extend a video clip a few frames with a still from the last frame… cheating…)
You will be editing on your 4K sequence you created, and the proxies will look the same size. When time to output, I’d click the proxy toggle to off (though I’m not sure that matters), then export. You will be exporting a 4K project and there’s no particular fuss.
Hope that helps. Good luck.
Ken
‘It’s not a question of becoming. It’s a question of uncovering what you really are, of letting everything that is not yourself fall away’. – Journey to Ladakh
I think this applies to editing as well….
Ken Barnes, Producer, Director, Editor
http://www.blissmonkeyfilms.com -
Fair enough. Thanks for your support!
‘It’s not a question of becoming. It’s a question of uncovering what you really are, of letting everything that is not yourself fall away’. – Journey to Ladakh
I think this applies to editing as well….
Ken Barnes, Producer, Director, Editor
http://www.blissmonkeyfilms.com -
Thanks very much Ted! Duly noted and will do some more research. Hopefully enough funding will come through to afford the best option. Any ballpark figures you can knock around?
‘It’s not a question of becoming. It’s a question of uncovering what you really are, of letting everything that is not yourself fall away’. – Journey to Ladakh
I think this applies to editing as well….
Ken Barnes, Producer, Director, Editor
http://www.blissmonkeyfilms.com -
Hi Ted. Thanks for the reply. Total film budget isn’t fixed yet, so budget allocated to this effect is also subject to that. What sort of range of cost would a VFX artist charge to make this look real?
I don’t know much about the software you mention so not sure what they can do.
‘It’s not a question of becoming. It’s a question of uncovering what you really are, of letting everything that is not yourself fall away’. – Journey to Ladakh
I think this applies to editing as well….
Ken Barnes, Producer, Director, Editor
http://www.blissmonkeyfilms.com -
Thanks Soham. I assume you mean 3D modelling stills? I’ve seen some downloadable 3D cars online and they look pretty real.
Will stock footage fog allow a character to walk from foreground to background, eventually disappearing as fog swirls around him?
‘It’s not a question of becoming. It’s a question of uncovering what you really are, of letting everything that is not yourself fall away’. – Journey to Ladakh
I think this applies to editing as well….
Ken Barnes, Producer, Director, Editor
http://www.blissmonkeyfilms.com -
Hi David,
Thanks for the quick reply. It’s an OWC Thunderbay 4. I bought the unit as an enclosure only so they don’t require their own drives. It has a ‘tray’ for each drive but I can swap them over to the new drives as well.
Best,
Ken
‘It’s not a question of becoming. It’s a question of uncovering what you really are, of letting everything that is not yourself fall away’. – Journey to Ladakh
I think this applies to editing as well….
Ken Barnes, Producer, Director, Editor
http://www.blissmonkeyfilms.com -
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Ken Barnes, Producer, Director, Editor
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The most likely culprit in all this is in the RT pull down menu left side of the timeline. Make sure Multiclip Playback is selected.
‘It’s not a question of becoming. It’s a question of uncovering what you really are, of letting everything that is not yourself fall away’. – Journey to Ladakh
I think this applies to editing as well….
Ken Barnes, Producer, Director, Editor
http://www.blissmonkeyfilms.com -
Hi,
Yes I had Chapter Markers. Perhaps that’s the culprit!
I ended up making a m2v in Compressor using Blue Ray settings. It was accepted fine. I wonder if there’s any difference in quality between what Matrox can do and this method? Matrox is definitely faster.
I’m going to try a Matrox version without chapter markers now. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Thanks a lot!
Ken
‘It’s not a question of becoming. It’s a question of uncovering what you really are, of letting everything that is not yourself fall away’. – Journey to Ladakh
I think this applies to editing as well….
Ken Barnes, Producer, Director, Editor
http://www.blissmonkeyfilms.com