Paul Neumann
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Ouch! Shouldn’t happen. Apple is better than that.
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It’s all in Prelude. The stuff last night was just .mov and the audio didn’t matter. Mike doesn’t mention the audio set up on his stuff so I can’t say what he would do with that. So, you might have to go to MXF OP1a/XAVC Intra 4k to get access to more than two channels of audio, but even then PPro loves that stuff and given that he’s only looking to use 10-15 seconds off of each shot Media Encoder would whip through that. And the originals would remain untouched of course.
My workflow was simple: Opened Day 1 folder on the drive the DP gave me, marked the parts of the clips I wanted, selected Transfer, picked a location and created a subfolder called Day 1, selected Transcode and selected QT/DNxHD, selected Rename and called them Day1 with auto increment.
Rinse and repeat for Day 2 and Day 3.
Normally I’d mark subclips so I’d always have access to the whole clip, but these shots were pretty obvious as to what was going to be needed.
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I would build a preset in Media Encoder that matches my footage and transfer/transcode all the selects that way. I did this just last night with a bunch of GoPro footage and timecode matches and image quality seems identical. Plus I got to rename the clips to match the project. Three days worth of 5 minute camera rolls on average. Biggest clip I marked was probably :30.
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Yeah, I hear ya. But it’s kinda looking out for your best interests there too. You ingest all the clips you want, mark subclips of the parts you want (including multiple and overlapping parts of any single clip) and just stop there. Then when you import any of those clips into PPro you get the whole clip AND the subclips. I think they did that for those “I think there’s another shot on this clip I might want” moments. Or you could open original Prelude session, select the the subclips and just send them to PPro.
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I totally understand wanting to pick selects out of long camera rolls. Is there a space requirement/restriction that you’re working with that you wouldn’t want to copy the whole clip?
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[Charlie Austin] “nd, on topic, I can’t believe anyone would want to work in a system where you had to click and hold a button and drag the mouse to scrub, or worse, require you to click somewhere or something to solo a clip to scrub it.”
Of course if your cursor is over either the source monitor or program monitor then a two finger swipe across the back of the mouse or on the trackpad is a MUCH more accurate way to find exactly what you’re looking for.
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I am really sorry to hear you guys are having a hard time with CC2014. Just to offer a different perspective, I am running it on a late 2013 iMac (i7, 24g ram) and a early 2013 Macbook Pro (i7, 16g ram) and it is running flawlessly. Couldn’t be happier.
I seriously bring this up so that your hardware gets a good look along with the software.
I don’t run a ton of plugins just a Red Giant Universe subscription. I did have to uninstall and reinstall that Red Giant Link thing, but that’s the only problem I’ve had with the upgrade.
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And just food for thought, how difficult is it to keep talented programmers interested in a project that is inconsequential to a successful company’s bottom line? I work for a large tech company and our best and most badass programmers fight to be working on the best and most badass projects. They want to put gold nuggets and brass rings on their resumes.
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When you ingest something into Prelude (and transfer it at the same time, because you don’t want to mess with the original card) it will show up in Prelude with the new name. If you send that clip to PPro from Prelude it will have the new name in your PPro Project Bin. If you import into PPro from the new structure it will have the original name, but it will carry the new name in its metadata making it searchable by the new name.
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That’s why you should use Prelude. Just using the Transfer To A New Destination and the Renaming function will rebuild an AVCHD folder structure of the original media with the new name. You can also make select structures if you want to split up the original AVCHD folder.