Steve Brame
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No conversion necessary! Simply use the Media Browser within PPro to import your BPAV folder. PPro will import the XDCAM video files and reject everything else that it doesn’t see as footage. Earlier on with CS3 and CS4 we tended to have a bit of sluggishness with EX-3 footage, and transcoding to Cineform was the answer. However, with CS5 and a pretty beefy machine, the files work well natively.
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Best practice would be to shoot for the least compressed type of file that you can, but it also may depend on what program you are going to use your exported files in. You’re program being SD or HD can also affect the choice, as well as whether or not you’ll be doing a re-transcode in your target program. Stay away from highly compressed codecs like MPEG and FLV(unless you are using the video in a Flash movie).
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Unless I’m mistaken…yes.
The only thing that I’ve ever exported a ‘Match Sequence Settings’ file for was to transcode with Squeeze. Now, however, with the Advanced Frameserver, I don’t need to. But, it’s always been obvious that a transcode was taking place, mainly because it wasn’t “instant”, such as it would be if AME was simply stitching the already created previews together..
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You can create an EDL from within Pro itself. In the CS Review process, you simply create a ‘workspace’ on your review site, then with 2 clicks you encode and upload a sequence to the workspace. From there you can invite anyone with an email address to be able to review the sequence. While viewing, they can stop, start and scrub the video, adding comments as they go – even draw symbols on the video to accentuate or mark areas of concern. These comments automatically appear in your CS Review panel within PPro. Clicking on a comment jumps your CTI to the exact spot on the timeline.
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‘Clipnotes’ never worked well, if at all. If you had success with it, you were one of the incredibly lucky few. ‘CS Review’, however, is a very different story. I’m uploading timelines to it right now. ‘CS Review’ works VERY well, enabling us to effectively edit projects while hundreds of miles from the client.
However, it doesn’t replace the need to ‘edit backwards’, since the referenced timecode would be useless as soon as you make the first edit in a list of changes if you start from the front of the timeline.
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“And I’ve made a feature request for clip markers to be able to hold comments.”
Thank you for this. It would be a wonderful thing!
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You can also work backward, performing the last edits in the timeline. Then, all timecodes will be accurate as you work from the end of the timeline toward the front.
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We were suddenly getting repeatable lockups on CS5 last week. Tried the ‘import project into a new project’ route. Ran MemTest and the RAM checked out fine. We were using the latest driver for our Quadro 4000, so I did a rollback to a much older version that was PPro certified. Removed several Windows Updates. Also did a repair install of CS5, then a full clean install of it when the repair didn’t fix the issue. None of it worked. On a hunch, I opened the PC’s case, and the CPU’s heat sink and fan were clogged with dust, as well as the Quadro’s. Blew out the dust bunnies, and we haven’t had a lock up since, and it’s been a week of 14 hour edit days.
May not be the solution for you, but it’s something to check.
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Trouble is, the clips you find on repositories like Pond5 and Revostock are staged, and no one seems to think like you do.
Consider this…there are quite a few people on those site making quite a bit of money selling shots. I got a few ‘himmingbirds shots that were really, really nice, thinking I was going to sell a load of them. Turned out that there were hundreds of ‘hummingbird shots’, so I haven’t sold a single clip!
You may have stumbled onto a niche. Might not help you with your current project, but you might have opened a whole new genre of staged stock video.
Now, how to stage a kangaroo kicking a guy into a pond….
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions