[Ryan Holmes]

[Walter Soyka] “With Premiere Pro CC, you can sync your keyboard shortcuts to your Creative Cloud account. “

This really is a great time and headache saving feature. No matter what computer I go to I’m always at “home.” Adobe should really tout this more (maybe they have and I just haven’t seen it?).

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[Ryan Holmes]

[Thomas Henry] “Also, wouldn’t you have to convert MXF format to Quicktime to be able to convert it to other formats?”

Premiere can handle MXF files natively with no need to transcode. Remember MXF is just a wrapper, like Quicktime. MXF can hold a variety of codecs, just like Quicktime.

The benefit of rendering as you work is that the latest version of Premiere will grab those renders and pack them into your final export, provided you check the “use previews” box, which will greatly reduce the time it takes to spit out a final file. This is essentially what FCP7 did with ProRes, it’s just that Adobe added several codecs to the list that could do this now in Premiere CC (ProRes being the newest, I think DNxHD started to have this capability in CS6). If you’re an ex-FCPer who has migrated to Premiere it means that you can work very similarly to before.

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[Ryan Holmes]

Well it depends on what Haswell chip you buy as to the performance for post-production. Haswell does seem to be more aimed at the mobile market. However, Intel is moving most of its production line to these chips as they are the latest and greatest. So I would expect they should perform well.

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/core-i7-4770k-haswell-review,3521.html

Like I said though, you’ll see a majority of your playback and processing gains via increased RAM and a certified, high-powered GPU.

Ryan Holmes
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[Ryan Holmes]

FCP7 plays the best with ProRes. The GoPro shoots a h.264 .mov file, and FCP chokes pretty quickly on h.264. I would transcode to ProRes, and do my resizing in FCP. I don’t like making visual determinations such as resizing during the transcoding process. Better to leave yourself the resolution to pan/scan your footage in FCP.

Just my $.02

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[Ryan Holmes]

You’ll see more benefits from RAM or using an Adobe certified GPU than from over-clocking your processor. Most of the playback and effects happen using the GPU. I would spend more of my money on GPU and RAM.

Ryan Holmes
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[Ryan Holmes]

+1

Gave me a good laugh this morning. Thanks!

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[Ryan Holmes]

This is interesting. I’ll have to test it out on my Mac Pro’s as well.

Did you render the sequence before exporting? Is it possible the renders are corrupt?

Another issue could be that you are using a technically un-supported GPU configuration on your Mac – https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/tech-specs.html

Now the CC should be able to utilize your cards but….

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[Ryan Holmes]

Your “Program” window is tied to your timeline. It sounds like you’ve just created a sequence with the wrong settings (4:3 vs 16:9) and therefore it looks wrong. The Program window is just displaying how you’ve setup your timeline settings.

In your “Project” window, right click on your imported movie clip and choose “New Sequence From Clip.”

This will make a timeline with the exact same settings as the clip you imported. Provided your clip is 16:9, HD then Premiere will make a sequence exactly the same as that.

Ryan Holmes
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[Ryan Holmes]

Using File–>Import only shows you files as your computer OS sees them. You need to be specifically in the Media Browser inside of Permiere Pro. In Premiere use Shift+8 to bring up the Media Browser. From the Media Browser navigate to your media, provided the P2 card was copied over exactly as it was on the card (same folder structure), Premiere should be able to read the folder structure and show you just the videos of that format (in your case P2).

More info on Adobe’s website:
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/importing-assets-tapeless-formats.html#import_assets_from_file_based_sources_with_media_browser

Ryan Holmes
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[Ryan Holmes]

Are you using the Media Browser built into Premiere Pro to navigate to your footage, as Alex suggested?

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