editing h.264
by Mike Cohen
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Oct 5, 2009 at 7:23:38 pm
We recently started receiving h.264 720x480 video files rather than the DVR-video or AVI files that are requested. Oh bother.
You can easily import the file into a DV CS4 project. My question is, should I be using a different sequence setting for editing h.264, such as a Desktop custom? in other words, does the presence of a h.264 video in a DV 720x480 sequence alter the h.264 video, such as by trying to play it as interlaced when it is not. Or likewise, does Premiere keep it native until you export into some other format?
I know you can mix formats on a sequence, just wanted to see if anyone had anything to say about h.264.
Re: editing h.264 by Tim Kolb on Oct 6, 2009 at 2:00:51 pm
any time you preview render, the H.264 will have to be transcoded to whatever render format you've specified...that might take some time.
If you principally edit DV and the H264 stuff is infrequent, I'd continue to edit in DV.
If the sequence is interlace, whatever comes in is forced into the sequence's settings.
If you're a purist (I tend to waffle between an advocate of the technical arts and "get it done and out of here"...), you might consider setting up an uncompressed timeline in the pixel size you need. You can do 720x480 .9 PAR uncompressed if you want to, then all the video is simply read for what it is without the sequence attempting to convert it. On a strong enough machine, you may not have to render before previewing.
Re: editing h.264 by Bob Dix on Nov 13, 2009 at 5:21:32 am
If its from a Canon 5D mark II H264 mov , we render the clips on the timeline before editing, somtimes it takes a while but, it does run very smoothly in the end.The resultant export of 1920x 1080 is very, very, good.
