ProRes in Premiere?

Is there any benefit to working on ProRes in Premiere? Or is it better to just cut native?

If your system can handle the native media in realtime there's really no reason to use ProRes. You may even get better performance with alternative codecs as QuickTime media is stuck in 32-bit land.

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Just depends on what you're doing. You can cut in any format in Premiere. If you want to capture / convert your footage to ProRes for the edit, that's fine.

Karl Lee Soule posted an excellent article on doing a ProRes end to end workflow in Premiere Pro.

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Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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Yeah, I love ProRes, but I'm just starting to wonder if it's even required in Premiere. I'll continue testing.

Another question - my ageing home Mac Pro 2 x 3Ghz Quad has started restarting itself for no apparent reason. Nothing in the crash logs that I can see. It seems to be when the graphics card is stressed, or the room is hot, so I'm thinking of replacing the card. What would be a good choice to suit both Premiere and FCP7?

I'm going to break this into a new thread, so please ignore the second question here.

It's not required in the least. In my shop I'm editing everything natively and then I can make a ProRes file at the very end if I want to for archiving using the Adobe Media Encoder which renders much much faster than Compressor.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
biscardicreative.com