Mike Janowski
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Forget about effects. Perfect your cutting skills. Most of the acknowledged masterpieces of editing ONLY contain cuts – butt cuts, L-cuts, J-cuts…but simply learning when to cut will speed your asencion to the head of the class
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First and foremost, presenting Premiere with a variety of frame sizes, rates and codecs is a guaranteed way to slow the entire editing process.
Sure, Premiere CAN transcode on the fly, and play back whatever you dump into the timeline…but imagine that Premiere is the United Nations, and your project is a huge meeting about some important worldwide topic, like world peace, and that meeting is being attended by negotiators from all around the world.
Do you think discussions would proceed a bit more quickly if everyone was speaking a different language, or if they all agreed to speak, say, French? That’s why we have the term “lingua franca”…a common manner or speaking for all involved, so that communication is facilitated.
Similarly, best practices in Premiere dictate that, if you have a variety of codecs and frame sizes, you transcode into a common “language” for best performance. If that seems like a timewaster to you, consider:
1) how much time you’re wasting waiting for pending media, and;
2) how much time you’re wasting waiting for Premiere to transcode on the fly so you can watch.
With the ease of invoking Media Encoder, and the ease of setting up transcode presets, this would be the first thing I’d do to get better performance.
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“that dawg don’t hunt.”
Glad you worked it out.
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Good response, that works for me
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In general, the advice here whether you’re using FCPx, Resolve or Premiere, is to TRANSCODE to a modern container, then edit.
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What’s your objection to working backwards?
If all you want to do is work unidimensionally, I have a nice RM-440-based 3/4″ tape system I can lend you…
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Transcode. H265 is NOT meant for editing. ‘
As you can see.
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It’s a sort of “creeping crud” problem. With the previous 2017 release of Premiere, attempting to send a Quicktime compression to ME resulted in the spinning beachball, and the creation of a file header or something (a name, a generic icon, and zero KB). Oddly enough, my regular h264 and MXF compressions would encode. However, with this latest release, nothing happens…I queue to ME, ME launches…and sits there like a bump on a log doing nothing. There are 5 of us working regularly with this software version, on Mac Pros, Towers, and iMacs, and nobody can make the queue to ME work currently.
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Well, it’s probably not MPEG streamclip. What are your sequence settings in FCP? They should be set to match the settings of your footage…generally, when you attempt to add a clip to a sequence it will ask if you wish to set the sequence settings to match the footage…if not, just highlight the sequence, hit apple-0, and change the sequence settings to match (correct frame size, frame rate, and codec).
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Never mind, found it. Turn on the Audio Mixer Tool, set Source either to Auto or Viewer if you prefer, each Viewer channel can be soloed, etc.