[Ryan Holmes]

I’m guessing you’re new to Premiere Pro and/or editing in general?

Real simply:
(1) Import footage into PPro (you can simply drag-and-drop it into a project)
(2) Right click on the clip and choose “New Sequence from Clip” – this will create a timeline with the exact resolution and frame rate of the footage you just imported
(3) Edit your footage on the timeline
(4) Export your movie and tick off the box in the export dialog window that says “Match sequence settings” – this will export a video using the same resolution frame rate of your sequence.

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[Ryan Holmes]

[Chris Babbitt] “What’s are the current recommended models? “

I wasn’t aware that there ever was a “recommended” hard drive. I’ve had succuss and failure with every hard drive – Hitachi, Seagate, Western Digital, etc. They all fail eventually. I currently run 2 Western Digital drives, 1 Seagate, and 1 Crucial SSD in my Mac Pro.

You may even look at SSD’s, especially if you’re using this drive as a boot drive. Installing a SSD on my Mac Pro helped perk it up a little bit.

Ryan Holmes
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[Ryan Holmes]

[Shane Ross] “I’m quite surprised that you were even able to install it.”

+1

@Gerry You do realize that FCP4 was released in 2003? It’s 10 year old software! Modern Apple OS software/hardware won’t even support it. You would need a computer from 2005 (at the latest) in order to run it as that was the last of the PowerPC machines, before Apple switched over to Intel CPU’s.

Ryan Holmes
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[Ryan Holmes]

[Frank Cervarich] “What other items should be adjusted to get maximum quality based on your experience?”

Just remember that Quicktime is just a wrapper, like AVI or MXF. Quicktime, as a wrapper, can take virtually any codec – ProRes, DNxHD, h.264, Uncompressed, Motion JPEG, etc. So you can export out a Quicktime DNxHD file if you wanted to store that long term.

[Frank Cervarich] “BUT I still use hard drives”

You can do this….just make sure you spin them up every 3-6 months. Hard drives have to be spun and started occasionally in order to maintain working order.

[Frank Cervarich] “What about the soon arrival of H.265 in regard to a web codec? “

When it arrives, it looks to be a step up from h.264. But at this point it is only just now leaving the standardization stage. I don’t see it being widely adopted or implemented for another couple years. It took h.264 several years to finally move to ubiquity. I expect h.265 will get there, but if you’re doing files for the web today, h.264 is still you’re best bet.

You might have a look at Vimeo’s compression guidelines page. They have good tips and video walkthroughs for most every software: https://vimeo.com/help/compression

Ryan Holmes
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[Ryan Holmes]

[Frank Cervarich] “What should I select as my options to create a high quality master?”

Are you laying this off to tape? Do want a digital file? How will you archive the digital file – LTO tape, hard disk, Blu-Ray data disc? I would probably use ProRes or DNxHD as my codec of choice (assuming Uncompressed isn’t an option), and then back that up however you deem appropriate – LTO, hard drive, etc. If you wan to compress it more heavily you could do a h.264 mp4 @ 100mbps or higher. Problem is that h.264 is a heavily compressed format and not an edit friendly format. But depending on what you’re doing it may be a worthy solution.

[Frank Cervarich] “What should I select as my options to create a copy for placing on the web that will be universally recognized but still have high quality? “

AME has presets in it for web video. Just look under the “Web Video” area for YouTube or Vimeo. Those are a good place to start. The most universally accepted format is a h.264 codec wrapped in a mp4 wrapper. Those files play on Windows/Mac, iProducts, Android, etc.

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[Ryan Holmes]

That’s what I was looking for. Thank you very much!

Ryan Holmes
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[Ryan Holmes]

This is good news!

[Greg Jones] “At first I forgot to add the card to the list of supported cards in Premiere”

Do you have a reference/link for this? I’m searching Google but I’m primarily finding PC walkthroughs about this, not a Mac specific one.

Ryan Holmes
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[Ryan Holmes]

Glad to help. You shouldn’t have to render audio in FCP, unless you’ve put a bunch of plugins on it. Like Philip said, all audio in FCP should be in 48kHz WAV or AIFF and you’ll be good. FCP doesn’t like mp3 files.

Ryan Holmes
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[Ryan Holmes]

[Tom Daigon] “I also will curtail volunteering to help folks in the Adobe forums for the time being.”

I understand your frustration but don’t take your beef with Adobe (the company) out on the users of the software. You’re a valuable member to this area on the Cow and I think it’s a misstep to avoid the users of the software in hopes of making a point to the company producing the software.

Now if you stop using the software all together….well that’d be a different story… 🙂

Just my $.02

Ryan Holmes
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[Ryan Holmes]

Using it under normal circumstances as per the manual should have no impact on your sensor. The best thing I recommend is purchasing fast CF cards so that you don’t stress the buffer internally. The more the buffer works, the warmer the camera gets. I use Sandisk Extreme Pro cards in all my cameras and have not had any problems (7D, 5DIII, Canon C300).

I’ve been shooting DSLR video/stills for 4 years and have had no issues with the sensor on my DSLRs.

Ryan Holmes
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@CutColorPost