Tim Kolb
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What does “export” mean?
Render?
Dynamic Link?
Premiere Pro doesn’t load AE compositions in layers like AE does with PPro sequences. The intent is to create the effect or composite in AE and edit the finished clip in Premiere Pro.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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The Mercury Playback engine was introduced in CS5…as was CUDA acceleration.
CS5 and later are 64 bit programs…Vista 64 minimum, but 64 bit Windows 7 is best.
The other thing you may want to try in the meantime is to use the “medium” setting in CineForm when transcoding. High quality is great, but with an aggressively compressed source like the 4:2:0 MP4 you’re shooting with your DSLR, CineForm Medium Quality will give you excellent image quality and much better performance.
Filmstream quality levels in CineForm are crazy high quality, but significantly more stressful to process.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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Chances are that you can easily handle whatever codec the footage is shot in…no conversion is necessary.
ProRes is a standard for Mac. It’s a bottleneck on Windows.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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Keep in ind that PPro runs any plugin that AE does with the exception of 3D (3 axis) effects.
With a few possible exceptions, Premiere Pro may be the NLE with the most plugins available when you consider the After Effects portfolio of available effects…
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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Yes, the plugin interfaces between PPro and AE are compatible, but not identical.
Red Giant has been chipping away at the issue bit by bit, as Adobe has, but it does seem like baby steps when the interface is so fluid in AE and mouse/drag interactions are ‘stuttery’ in PPro.
I use Colorista a lot…it’s been improving, so it isn’t as if the manufacturers are blind to it if that’s any consolation.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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Magic Bullet Colorista…very easy to use across the Premiere Pro/After Effects divide as well as a very capable color corrector.
One of my staple tools.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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Keep in mind that “quality” is relative…
There are more and more acquisition formats that are using H264 as their base format. Premiere Pro processes in 32 bit, 4:4:4…so it isn’t as if there is degradation from just cutting the stuff. Extensive effects and aggressive color correction will likely expose some weaknesses…
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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I’d be a little concerned about the processor ceiling as they aren’t very well suited for tough camera codecs. I don’t see any real connectivity for external storage other than USB or LAN.
The small power supply, RAM speed, and use of mobile Quadro cards definitely would make it a laptop alternative, but as a base workstation, I think that most would become dissatisfied with the limitations before long.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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You can also download a version of both the encoder and decoder in GoPro CineForm Studio, downloadable for free…
https://gopro.com/3d-cineform-studio-software-download/
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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Yes…I wasn’t questioning whether you had a legit version of PPro.
I can’t remember what may have been a little wonky in CS5’s early release days, but I know the updates came fast and furious for a bit there…maybe the app needs those?
I would try to just reinstall PPro.
Also…you don’t have any freeware codec packs installed on that system I hope…some of those definitely screw up Adobe’s codecs, and that would definitely be something to avoid.
It sounds like the media is at least complete. You could download Sony’s XDcamEX Browser (it’s free to download…just google it at sony.com) and take a look at the media that way and see if it seems happy…
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor