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1. Re: Best way to import footage
joe bloe premiere Apr 10, 2013 5:07 AM (in response to famerdave)1 person found this helpfulNot a mac person but...
I would leave iMovie out of the equation.
First, copy the entire contents of your SD cards to an internal drive,
then import your media directly to Premiere using the Media Browser.
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2. Re: Best way to import footage
famerdave Apr 10, 2013 7:49 AM (in response to joe bloe premiere)So, I should just copy the entire "PRIVATE" folder off of the SD card and then just edit directly with the AVCHD format? Then put the PRIVATE folder somewhere on my drive that stores all footage?
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3. Re: Best way to import footage
joe bloe premiere Apr 10, 2013 7:50 AM (in response to famerdave)Yes.
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4. Re: Best way to import footage
famerdave Apr 10, 2013 7:52 AM (in response to joe bloe premiere)Some people have told me to use Cineform to then take the footage and put it a more computer friendly format. My machine is decent, but not extremly powerful.
Do you know anything about using Cineform?
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5. Re: Best way to import footage
John T Smith Apr 10, 2013 7:54 AM (in response to famerdave)Read Bill Hunt on project setup http://forums.adobe.com/thread/919388?tstart=0
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6. Re: Best way to import footage
famerdave Apr 10, 2013 8:03 AM (in response to famerdave)So I guess my new/better question is, should I use Cineform or should I just edit directly from the encoded AVCHD.
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7. Re: Best way to import footage
jstrawnApr 10, 2013 8:12 AM (in response to famerdave)
I edit direclty from AVCHD all the time and it works fine for me on several systems including an older macbook pro. I suggest avoiding transcoding if possible. It's time consuming and if you don't do it right, you could overcompress and suffer generational loss.
I do like to go in and delete the unused clips after I'm done editing, just to save space. Also, if it's projects I don't care about, I will sometimes export the final movie into something easily playable outside of ppro (like mov or mp4) and then delete all the source media. That is NOT a best practice if you're working professionally. In that case, you need to archive everything. But for prosumers, there may be a lot of projects where you just want to put a quick edit together and then export it as a final movie for posting online or wherever. In that case, you may not want to hang onto all your source footage forever.
It really varies per user, but like I said, if you are working professionally, or aspiring to, you will need a way to archive everything, and to backup those archives. If you're working from tape source, then just labeling and storing the tapes is an acceptable backup for the media associated with a certain prject (of course you'll still need to save and backup the project itself). But if you're working from tapeless formats, then you will need multiple hard drives with lots of space to archive and backup everything. The good news is that hard drives keep getting cheaper, bigger and sturdier all the time. I've had two lacie 1 tb hd's for a couple years now with zero problems (before that it was 2 lacie 500gb's for many years, also with 0 problems). But I'm still always parnaoid that #1 will go while #2 is still in the act of backing it up. Or that they'll both go at once. Yikes.
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8. Re: Best way to import footage
famerdave Apr 10, 2013 8:13 AM (in response to jstrawn)I know that the AVCHD footage is much smaller, so I rather keep that versus keeping all that other footage. (I have the same HDD worrys, that one will fail, and the other will fail at same time)
How do I copy over everything, just take the entire "PRIVATE" folder and put it in a project folder? Or do I need to do a different step to copy?
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9. Re: Best way to import footage
Jim_Simon Apr 10, 2013 8:14 AM (in response to famerdave)1 person found this helpfuljust take the entire "PRIVATE" folder and put it in a project folder?
Yes.