Converting Footage to work in CS4 via mpegstreamclip?

cjwolff

cjwolff

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I'm running CS4 on a windows laptop. The .MOV files the 7D produces really bog down the system. I would appreciate any suggestions on the best mpegstreamclip codec settings to bring footage into Premiere or AE. I just tried quicktime animation and it produced a file 20x the size of the original which still had the same problems editing. Unfortunately Prores isn't an option. Thanks in advance.
 
Why not use Adobe media Encoder to convert them to AVI? They'll be huge of course, it's the decompression of the relatively small h.264 files that are banging your processor. Get an external hard disk and drop your big AVI files on that for editing. You could also scale them down to SD or something for editing as proxies, then replace those with fulls-ze versions for your online.
 
This is a good point. Does an AVI file bog down less regardless of the codec used within the file?
 
I've got the same setup and can convert normal 24p footage fine, but I'm having trouble with the 60p footage. Media Encoder won't make 60p proxies, says the frame rate is too high. Any ideas?
 
Okeefe: why not load up that logarth codec in mpegstreamclip and create those proxies there then link them up in Premiere? I think I tried that while stepping through this workflow and it worked great.
 
Okeefe1979 said:
I've got the same setup and can convert normal 24p footage fine, but I'm having trouble with the 60p footage. Media Encoder won't make 60p proxies, says the frame rate is too high. Any ideas?
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I had this same problem in AME CS4, but have it fixed. After changing the encoded framerate from 24p to 60p (or 59.94), change the Video -> Level setting from "High 1440" to just "High". This worked for me and I was able to convert the 720 60p videos without any errors.

Hope this helps.
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I'm hoping i dont have to force myself to dish out the cash for the mac way.. too many pretty lenses out there.

Has anyone found a decent and efficient way to export native 7D clips into a nice pretty and less CPU intensive format?

The .mxf files have it spot on..

The best i have found was using MPEG Streamclip to export each clip as a less quality H.264 Mp4 and it was still a little bit of an irrit to edit with..
 
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