Vince Becquiot
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Yep, for the camera lens blur, you’re gonna need another 16 cores of processing 🙂
Fast blur might not look nearly as good, but it’s the way to go unless you are working for Pixar…
Vince Becquiot
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Hi Jonnie,
My guess is you have a plugin that’s really slowing things down, or you are running out of RAM.
Yes, a direct AE export should be a bit faster, but not by much.
You can try unchecking the Maximum quality box as well, or render CBR at a higher rate.
Of course, not worth canceling this one.
Vince Becquiot
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Usually, agencies / TV station will give you very particular specs. And they vary greatly.
If you are editing without knowing specs ahead of time, select the highest specs.
60i is interlaced, 60p is progressive. There is currently no progressive standard for 1080 in broadcast.
But all of this matters less than the format your footage was originally shot in. If it was 1080 progressive, edit in 1080 progressive for now.
Vince Becquiot
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Hi Chris,
For all it’s worth, you might try deleting media cache folders and media cache database from your prefs.
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I’m not really sure it was right on the beat, with such a fast rate, your mind will close the gap.
But yes, cutting manually is the other way to do it.
Tedious is the name of the game for most videos worth their view count. And I’m not sure I would call that tedious, try rotoscoping for a 2D to 3D movie…
Vince Becquiot
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Hi Mijail,
The 2 top broadcast specs right now are 1080 60i and 720 60p (the latter mostly being used for content benefiting from fast frame rate as most sport footage).
Vince Becquiot
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Hi David,
I think, in asking this question in a Premiere forum, you will obviously get favorable Premiere answers.
Whichever route you choose, your experience with FCP will be of little use, FCP X is a vastly different editing application as well.
So my answer is an big “Premiere”, but again that’s the software we use and love for the most part.
As the industry shifts away from FCP, you will not be able to import Premiere project in FCP, yet you can import FCP projects into Premiere, so that’s quite a big advantage if a client needs you to work on an existing edit.
As far the OS, we are now on Macs, but I think both Windows and MAC have their strong point.
My take on that is: Mac much more expensive, but likely more stable in the long run. Adobe only has to test on a few configurations for the MAC, vs 1000’s for the PC.
I hope I was objective enough 🙂
Vince Becquiot
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Hi Greg,
That’s typical. In the case of a 29.97 sequence, Premiere dumps half the frames and your GPU /CPU only need to provide processing for half the frames, thus a better playback performance. What that does say is that’s it’s not a drive or network issue.
In most cases, a CUDA card upgrade would solve the issue. This would depend on how old the machine is, and what version of Premiere you are running, etc.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Hi Ramin,
It sounds like you may be using an intraframe format that Premiere cannot understand.
With intraframe, only a few frames are fully encoded, the rest is based on changed pixels in the image, which is consistent with what you are seeing.
Is this happening in your preview window (same monitor you are editing on)? Or are you previewing on a separate monitor?
In cases like this, I usually start by updating my video drivers, but this point more to an obscure video format, or something that was not encoded to standards.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Hi Eben,
[Eben Abbaan] “I accidentally shot some footage in 30fps on my 5d when I meant to shoot at 24fps. I’m assuming that it’s best to just edit the 30p stuff in with all my 24p stuff and have it be converted to 24fps upon final export (rather than converting to 24fps now, then exporting AGAIN later).”
Either way, you’ll have to convert before your final export. And if you wait and convert after your edit and replace the footage, all your edit points will be off (not something you want).
[Eben Abbaan] “Any of you post super-nerds have any best-practices tips for this? (btw ‘post super-nerd’ is a total compliment, I know you’re out there Brian Newell)”
I usually use Twixtor for that kind of thing. Not free, but faster than most other solutions I’ve seen.
[Eben Abbaan] “If anyone knows why Adobe Media Encoder spits out an .mp4 file when I select the standard H.264 HD1080p23.976 preset, I’m curious about that as well….
“Do you mean, as opposed to another extension?
As far as I know, this is the Quicktime wrapper, and supports the AAC format.
I’ve also seen .avi .m4v .mkv .h264
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area