[Sam Frazier, Jr.]

Thank you, but I already returned the camera. I didn’t want to , but I couldn’t justify the purchase.

[Sam Frazier, Jr.]

Thank you for that. Unfortunately, trying to get a phone number to call Panasonic is just about impossible. I looked and tried for over an hour today. They don’t want you to call and instead you have to fill out a form in the hopes that it reaches the right dept and someone there knows what you’re talking about. Then you have to wait for an email and hope it answers your question w/o the need for a followup. Not something I’d bet on.

And in the past I’ve tried to ask this kind of question to reps at good places like B&H, et al but I end up knowing more about it than they.

This shouldn’t be this hard & it would be nice if companies made more of an effort. At least I could call and talk to someone from Tamron today.

[Sam Frazier, Jr.]

I looked more into it and found this eatings out:

– PPro 2020 will take you to the proxies if you are in proxy mode, but PPro 2022 will always take you to the online version. This is a stupid change and someone at Adobe needs to fix that.

– there is a performance upgrade using the proxies, but not as much as I had hoped. It seems that the biggest boost to timeline snappiness and playback is lowering the preview resolution. Sure, I knew that, but I would have expected proxies to have more of an impact.

– I’m speculating here, but perhaps if I made the proxies a lower resolution that would help far more. I’m hesitant to do that though as I’m dealing w/ all kinds of resolutions from the different cameras and down-rising them might create issues.

[Sam Frazier, Jr.]

Thanks for that. Are you sure that Reveal In Finder will take you to the original tho? That’s not my recollection from my last project and also I just watch a video on PPro proxy workflow that suggested using Reveal in Finder to find the proxy file, but stressed it would only work if toggle proxies is switch on (on being use proxies).

I made ProRes Proxy versions of these cameras and formats. As you can see, they are quite extensive and I would expect to see a significant performance difference, but I’m not seeing much of any change:

Sony FS700 3840 × 2160 ProRes HQ 60p
BMD Pocket 6k 4096 x 2160 BRAW Q5 60fps & 24fps
Canon C300 Mk III 4096 x 2160 60p MXF files (never worked w/ before & unsure what else to say about this recording format)
Panasonic EVA1 4096 x 2160 HEVC
Canon EOS R 3840 × 2160 24p .MP4 AVC
Drone 3840 × 2160 AVC
GoPro 11 Black 5312×2988 .MP4 HEVC 60p
GoPro 4 2704×1524 h.264 29.97
GoPro3 2704×1524 h.264 29.97
2 other 8-bit cameras shooting in 1080p24 AVC
iPhone 13 3840 × 2160 ProRes HQ & HEVC

[Sam Frazier, Jr.]

Thanks for that! It wouldn’t work for me though to export as one long file as the reason I’m combining the files is to help them get recognized in an audio sync in PluralEyes.

I was dreading exporting each group of files, but then found that I could import each folder w/ these small files into Media Encoder as something to “stitch together”. The advantage of that is I just had to import each folder one by one, then export the whole thing at once. Took around 1.25 hours, but it seems to have done fine. I was also lucky as the audio only had two tracks, so I didn’t need to do anything special to it.

[Sam Frazier, Jr.]

Update: I tried copying and pasting the project into a new sequence, but the render in to out still just hangs forever. This is maddening.

[Sam Frazier, Jr.]

Thanks for that. I’ll be used an external SSD Raid running around 1500MB/s, so we should be good there. I was more wondering if the MacBook Air would be able to work with the kind of mess of a project as I’ve had before and if a Studio would make a snappier and easier editing experience than a 14″ MBP Max or simply the MBP M1 Pro. Any thoughts?

[Sam Frazier, Jr.]

So wait, that video says Thunderbolt 3 supports 4 lanes of PCIe but TB4 only supports only 1 lane? If this is the case, then how do external TB4 enclosures w/ NVMe drives get close to 2750 MB/s just like TB3 enclosures? I’m looking for external M1 Mac options as well and came across a few TB4 DIY cases that boasted this speed.

[Sam Frazier, Jr.]

Thank you for that. Can you tell me a bit more about how the EVA1 doesn’t play well w Resolve? If you transcode EVA1 files to ProRes, does it work better? I’m tempted to switch to Resolve for any number of reasons, including speed and PPro is about as buggy as that scene from Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom…

As for my edit in PPro, I made offline ProRes Proxy files of all the clips and their online was their native files. This was impossible to playback w/ rendering first.

[Sam Frazier, Jr.]

Thanks for that! I didn’t know latency could work that way w/ finding it hard to play an image sequence of thousands of smaller files. But, I have that going on in my timeline as I tend to keep many layers of alternative clips as options. I was thinking the latency was just more of the issue of SSD starting up faster that spinning drives, kind of like electric vs gasoline cars.

But yes, I highly suspect I’m also dealing with a bottleneck in my computer CPU and GPU. It’s probably time to upgrade.