Cineform Neo Scene

[willber]

Im having alot of trouble working with avchd at the moment and premiere pro cs3, then came across the neo scene transcoding software.

Has anyone had any experience with this? Can it convert 720 60p?

It seems very affordable, but dont wanna buy it to find out it is useless.
Thanks in advance!

[Mike Harvey]

I believe it will convert 720p/60

Cineform offers a fully functional 3-day trial. Download it and try it out.

[Hidef1080]

I have it now but I have not used it with 60p footage.
You do have the option of converting footage to 24/25p or keeping the same frame rate so I want to say yes however I can let you know for sure tomorrow if it does......:thumbup:

[willber]

Thanks guys.

Just tried it...and once I import the avi file into premiere, the clip shows just green.

[Hidef1080]

Neo Scene will take 60fps and output 60fps.

I have removed CS3 so I don't know if I can be of much help to you as I only tried 24p Neo avi's in CS3 which worked without a problem a few days ago.

I'm all Vegas Pro now and I had no trouble with Neo 60fps.
I also converted my 720p 60 to Neo 24p and that worked without any iusses as well.

One 300MB 2 minute test clip = 1.30GB Neo clip... The quality is worth the hard drive space IMO.

If you are seeing green clips in CS3, I'd first check to make sure you are up-to-date with Adobe downloads.
If you are and you are still seeing green clips, give us your computer specs and someone here should be able to help.

[Andy Olson]

You might be getting the green screne because Cineform's has a free player that you need to have to watch cineform footage, but I would think it would come with the Neo Scene demo. You might want to double check that you have it though. It's called Neo Player.

This maybe the workflow you are already doing, but another option is to use Panasonic's free transcoder that let's you convert the avchd to MXF's. Then you should be able to use MXF's natively in the Premiere version you have. If not you can use a program like DVFilm's Raylight (http://dvfilm.com/raylight/index.htm) to be able to drop the mxf's directly into Premiere.

Best,
Andy

[mgilbert]

I just downloaded the NeoScene trial and have been trying out some of the clips provided here to test with CS3. No matter what presets or custom settings I tried I couldn't get footage in without a red render bar. I checked their site and found this:

Q:Why do I have a red render bar over my footage in Premiere Pro CS3?

A: The red bar shown by Premiere Pro CS3 on top of CineForm footage on the timeline means that PPro cannot determine whether it can play the footage in real time without rendering. While the red bar is a nuisance, the CineForm material actually plays fine. In other words PPro tries to play the material as fast as it can. You'll notice on reasonably fast machines Premiere Pro will play through multiple Cineform streams simultaneously including transitions.

nuisance yes. I guess everyone using NeoScene deals with this?

[Attic6]

I just downloaded the trial. Finally somethjing that works pretty easy. Massive file size!
Will be interesting to try out their 3 different quality settings.
Gonna have to buy it now...

[Briody]

Does Cineform help with previewing while editing?

I'm running Vegas 8.0 on a Quadcore and I'm not quite getting 24fps playback unless I'm in draft mode. I'm getting 17 fps in preview mode and it's a pain to edit like that.

I'd like to get the smooth playback that I was used to when I edited DV. Will Cineform help with that?

[Jim H]

Does Cineform help with previewing while editing?

I'm running Vegas 8.0 on a Quadcore and I'm not quite getting 24fps playback unless I'm in draft mode. I'm getting 17 fps in preview mode and it's a pain to edit like that.

I'd like to get the smooth playback that I was used to when I edited DV. Will Cineform help with that?

Yes, it should help. I get like 8 FPS with native AVCHD in Vegas 8.0 (and even that isn't consistent), and much higher FPS with Cineform - nearly as good as DV at times. Your system is much more powerful than mine, so you should find Cineform previews perfectly.

[DaFireMedic]

Does Cineform help with previewing while editing?



Tremendously

[Aseesl8er]

Thanks guys.

Just tried it...and once I import the avi file into premiere, the clip shows just green.


I've had the same problem. Are you running on Windows Vista? On XP, it's fine.