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Thanks, it was the “Make offline” clue that worked…

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Just to finish this off, and tidy up for anyone else who comes along asking the same.
Iset all my footage to convert to ProRes, and just now checked it.
PERFECT! No lag, nice to work with as before.

So whatever Adobe say about Premiere accepting all these different formats (don’t get me wrong, they do work, and IS handy, when in a pinch you wanna throw in a mp4.. ) is stretching it a bit… on MY pretty ok, but nothing special, slightly oldish mac… ProRes IS the way to go.

Thanks for all the opinions though, I guess if you have a really great computer you just don’t know what it’s like to have a crap one!

Anyway… this discovery means I have another question… in good forum etiquette, Ill make a new thread.

Over and out!

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Thanks to all your replys.
Briefly I will say the footage im typically getting these days is mxf (which I know is just a wrapper).
Im sure my computer is not up to scratch, and no ssd hd as scratch etc. But Im really commenting on the fact that when I went from encoding from whatever to ProRes in FCP before, everything was lovely.. but now, with dragging in anything straight to Prem, its laggy and tiring to work with, but not impossible.
Same computer same SIZE footage (up to 2k, normally 1920- 1080) samew workflow.

So all im asking is, IS encoding to ProRes gonna help… got 4 or 5 shoot days of material to do, should I bother?

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OK.. two years later…

What about in Final Cut X then?
As an interactive film-maker, I need to export hundreds of tiny short clips, surely I don’t need a separate sequence (or whatever the hell its called in X)

BTW, I’m still evaluating whether I can continue to use FCP, or jump ship, like half the industry…

The answer to this question is a deal breaker for me!

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Not strictly true…
Its a process tho..
In Maya export to OBJ
In Photoshop (yes photoshop) import the 3d using the 3D menu (not place)
Save as psd
import the psd in AfterEffects..
Bingo!

(Of course theres some tricky hiccups, but this should get you started…)

Mark

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You are right, that WAS the answer i wanted! Thanks.. all is like crystal now! I was almost exactly completely wrong!

ha ha!

anyway.. some of us shoot great stuff with that camera without knowing the hell what we´re doing…!!!

Thanks John!

Mark

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Simply, yes, shoot 25pN. You will get twice the record time and edit in a 25p timeline. Make sense?

Er.. no, not quite!!

🙂

So whats 25p then? whats the difference between p and pn?

Mark

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Great you foiund a solution, as I have the same issue.
One question, was it enough to not use one of these bad fonts in text 3d or did you have to remove them from the system.. I have a huge, messy font folder, been meaning to tidy etc etc.. no time etc etc… How on earth did YOU track down the culprits?

Mark

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Its not fixed by this Im afraid, I can see some improvement in the text quality (and I AM using the built in text generator in FCP – even though now I read in this wonderfull forum (why didnt i find this sooner)that this text generator sucks)…

however the interlace lines are still there when things move. particularly on text, and also on the borders to wipe effects, and the wipes in general… instead of cleanly cutting across the screen, there is this awfull fringing on the wipe edge… Im gonna encode it for flash now (my deadline demands it) but im not happy.

It makes me think that I have been using the wrong settings forever, but never noticed cos I havent been doing any of this text animating 7 screen wiping effects before…

any further suggestions heartily welcomed…

mark

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Thanks for that tip, I checked my settings and i AM at 8bit YUV (whatever that is) you do mean in the sequence settings video tab right? But my motion setting was for normal, I have changed to high now and am rendering again, let you know how I get on…

Cheers

Mark

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