[Shawn Kornhauser]

Thank you for the helpful post, Brent. I don’t consider myself especially knowledgeable when it comes to the intricacies of formats, codecs, and other elements that are important for an editor to know – so the simplistic explanation is appropriate here ☺

Some answers to your questions:

1. Audio was recorded separately using a Zoom H4N recorder. The frame rate is listed at 48000 Hz. Is that what you’re looking for?

2. It looks like an issue I am having is that I am trying to edit with proxy files for the majority of my footage. The DP I had shooting the majority of my footage was shooting on an Alexa as well as another camera (can’t recall) that my machine can’t really edit at full quality. The proxies are at 24 fps 720p and the full quality clips come in as 23.967 fps and either 1080p or 4k. So I’m guessing I want everything at 23.967

This feels like a ton of variables and I’m not totally sure how to edit with proxies, make sure all of my timelines are set properly for the final conversion to full quality, mix different footage without screwing myself over down the road, have audio be synched, etc.

Should I be hiring someone to walk me through this? I’d certainly prefer to hire a professional editor but I can’t afford it at the moment.

Thanks again (to you also John).

Shawn

[Shawn Kornhauser]

Thanks very much for the response.

– What hard drive is this stored on?
– I’m working off of a 6TB Lacie Thunderbolt RAID HD

– What computer are you using?
– 2012 iMac 3.2GHz Intel Core i5 16 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690MX 2048 MB video card

A friend said when they moved to Premiere they just upgraded their machine to have a more powerful graphics card w/ 4GB of video RAM. Does it seem like that’s something I should look at? Or should I buy a different HD to work off of? Or is editing w/ proxy files a better idea?

Thanks in advance.

Shawn