5.5 to 5.5 (Media Composer to Premiere Pro)

This is kind of an odd place to present a question about going from Media Composer to Premiere. But what the heck. Welcome to the brave new world of NLE's.

We're cutting a RED show in MC 5.5. Offlining in DNxHD36 (1080, 23.98, low bit rate). I want to conform it in Premiere so I can then flip it to AE for temp VFX (greenscreens and such). So I'm trying different ways of exporting AAFs (linked, consolidated, embedded, etc.) but I'm getting (at best) a sequence in Premiere where the clips seem to freeze a couple seconds into each one.

Doesn't anyone have any tips? This is actually the first time I've opened up Premiere since 1998!

Thanks.

- Justin Barham -

People have been experiencing clip freezing issues when their permissions were incorrect.

I would recommend running CS Repair: [www.digitalrebellion.com] . If that doesn't fix it, see Adobe's recommendations here: [kb2.adobe.com]

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Thanks Jon! That sounds like it might be the problem. I'll give it a shot.

- Justin Barham -

Hmmm. No luck. Avid export was checked OK. Premiere just isn't playing nice.

- Justin Barham -

There's the other option, and that is to send it via the BMD DaVinci Resolve. I haven't tried using RED in Avid. But with the Resolve (free version), you can do a one light from your AAF, then render to ProRes and export an xml into FCP Classic (of course, with an XML, it can bring you straight into After Effects).



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Workflows involving Resolve 8 interest me. But don't you need a $500 add-on to access DNxHD? Or is that no longer the case with Resolve 8?

- Justin Barham -

You need the plugin for DNxHD. The only way to get around buying the plugin is to consolidate/ transcode to 1:1x. However, the Resolve can read Redcode. So that can be your solution. But I haven't tried red workflows with the Resolve and Avid yet.



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It's not the worse thing in the world buying that plugin. But it wouldn't make sense for me unless I had a setup where I was regularly throwing to Resolve.

MC 5.5, CS5.5, Resolve 8. Some interesting, affordable options out there these days.

- Justin Barham -

Update: It looks like Adobe is working on going Avid AAF to Premiere in their Labs. Good deal.

[blogs.adobe.com]

- Justin Barham -

Yea. There are a few interesting things in Labs- RED Color 3, extensions (and the Pond5 plugin). But do bear in mind that they are in beta, and there may still be bugs.



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