Walter Biscardi
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Honestly if you’re trying to figure out “what will people see when they view this on a computer monitor?” the answer is whatever their monitor is set up to show them. Thousands of monitor models being adjusted by millions of people, so it’s probable your image will never look as you intend on any two monitors.
With all of our work we output the Premiere Pro signal via an AJA or BMD product to our Flanders Scientific Reference monitors. That’s what we color grade to and what we find is that the output on the Flanders very closely mirrors what the final Quicktime File will look like.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“This American Land” – our new PBS Series.
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Hmmmm, lots of things to ponder here.
What Mac are are you running and what OS is it on? How much RAM is in the machine?
Also what version of Premiere Pro are you running?
Lastly, where is your media stored?
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“This American Land” – our new PBS Series.
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I have multiple blog posts on running Premiere Pro with an iMac. We’re so happy with them I’m going to be replacing the current 6 Mac Pros that run our edit suites with all 27″ iMacs.
https://www.biscardicreative.com/blog/2012/08/anatomy-of-an-imac-suite/
https://www.biscardicreative.com/blog/2012/12/workflow-update-imac-adobe-and-the-x-factor/
You can also search “iMac” in my blog for more articles…..
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“This American Land” – our new PBS Series.
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This is also a perfect job for Prelude. Convert all your clips while you ingest.
By the way editing ProRes in Premiere Pro is easy too. Especially if you use the FCP 7 keyboard shortcuts.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“This American Land” – our new PBS Series.
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Yeah, that’s a tough one because unlike FCP you can’t just create a project with ONLY the Sequence to pass along between the two. Depending on how big the project is, you CAN use Project Manager to create a new project that ONLY includes the clips from the selected timeline. So the only thing you’ll be bringing over is a newly created Project that ONLY has the sequence.
Yeah, you’re gonna have to keep that new bin with all the media in it because, well that’s just the way Premiere Pro works for the moment. You can’t delete those clips from the bin because they will disappear from the timeline……
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“This American Land” – our new PBS Series.
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[Simon Roughan] “1TB internal raid set up. “
As in a single drive or dual 500 GB drives? Slow slow slooooooooooowwww. For comparison we use a minimum 4 drive 8TB RAID in our shop. Those are the small ones. Then we have 16 drive 48 and 16TB units for our systems. Need to get a faster RAID first and foremost if you want to start getting a lot of streams. Our RAIDS run in the 750MB/s range with approx. 110MB/s per workstation via GigE networking
Other problem is AVCHD. Not very speedy with Premiere Pro in our experience.
And is the GoPro H264 QT files? Quicktimes automatically slow down Premiere Pro because they are 32bit files running in the 64bit application.
So the RAID is your biggest problem and you have a few other things hindering you too.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“This American Land” – our new PBS Series.
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Honestly one day you’re going to be glad it’s not enabled by default. I much prefer that the behavior stay as is with the editor making the decision on which clips are to be converted or not. A lot of times when you have oversized footage like your situation, it makes for nice cropping and zooming opportunities.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“This American Land” – our new PBS Series.
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We run the shared storage solution from Small Tree Communications. look at their Titanium series. Cat5 sharing between workstations that’s much more affordable than just about anything else out there. We run a 48TB solution between 6 primary edit workstations, plus 8 other machines that access / work with the footage like the Resolve and ProTools rigs. All our edit suites have iMacs for the Producers too so they can access the footage. Been running their solution over 5 years now editing ProRes / DNxHD and many other flavors of HD all day long.
Titanium solutions are the computer / switch / RAID all in one box.
https://www.small-tree.com/GraniteSTOR_Shared_Storage_s/94.htm
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“This American Land” – our new PBS Series.
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[Richard Floyd-Walker] “But my original question was will there be a substantial difference in my experience with After Effects and Premiere CS6 an i7 Ivybridge machine with an Nvidia GTX 560 Ti over a 2009 iMac i5 nehalem with a ATI Radeon HD 4850. “
Well, any jump in horsepower from what you’re using today to a newer machine will result in a substantial difference. I’ve been replacing our older 8 core Mac Pros with new 27″ iMacs and they are running rings around the older machines. We went with the 32GB RAM kit from OWC and I put the fastest processor they have. The new quad processors are going to be even better.
So just upgrade to any new machine and you’ll see a jump in your performance.
We recently installed and have been running a Dell PC alongside all of our Macs. While it’s a good, solid machine, we find it more clunky than the Mac quite honestly. We’re have a lot of codec issues when moving projects between Mac and Windows. As someone else noted, ProRes export is gone unless we purchase the Calibrated Software plug-in. I already had to purchase the Calibrated Software XDCAM QT plug-in because PC can’t read those files. XDCAM native, sure, but not when we receive QTs.
You can visit my blog and look up Dell and iMac to see all the articles I’ve been posting on there regarding our installations, trials and tribulations, etc…. https://www.biscardicreative.com/blog/
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“This American Land” – our new PBS Series.
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[Mike Cohen] ” Anyone need a 1″ machine?!”
The library of congress. Seriously. They are seeking out all manner of machines so they can have access to their catalogues as the machines age. I’m going to donate my machines as we move them out of production.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“This American Land” – our new PBS Series.