GH1 CS5 Premiere Pro

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nobbystylus

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Just a quick one to say i'm impressed by native GH1 import into CS5 Premier Pro. I'm an FCP guy generally, but Premiere is certainly solid feeling, and it imports/plays back and cuts with GH1 files even straight of the SD card. Quite impressive. This is on an old Mac Pro, with a 4870ATI card. No transcoding and no need to render on the timeline. I'll put it through its paces once i've got a bit more free time.
 
Not sure as i'm in PAL land and the footage i was using was 720p 50fps. If anyone wants to upload some NTSC footage i'll test it out.
 
WesScog said:
Is it doing proper pulldown on the footage and interpreting it as 24P?
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I don't think so. While I was able to import the MTS files, and play/edit, I still have playback issues on my 'low powered' machine... the issue is that during playback there are artifacts of too slow of a decompression. Once the playback stops, the image in the viewers 'cleans up' ok.

Because I've not been using Premiere for years and years, I was not able to find a convenient method to remove the pulldown. In After Effects there was the 'interpret footage' option, but I think I've seen some post that indicate that's not a particularly good method to remove the pulldown.
 
j1clark@ucsd.edu said:
I don't think so. While I was able to import the MTS files, and play/edit, I still have playback issues on my 'low powered' machine... the issue is that during playback there are artifacts of too slow of a decompression. Once the playback stops, the image in the viewers 'cleans up' ok.

Because I've not been using Premiere for years and years, I was not able to find a convenient method to remove the pulldown. In After Effects there was the 'interpret footage' option, but I think I've seen some post that indicate that's not a particularly good method to remove the pulldown.
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There is a "interpret footage" in Premier CS4.
 
With CS5, when I import 1080 footage (60i) it shows as 29.97 in the project pane. When I put it on a 24P timeline it seems to play fine and I don't see any interlacing but it does seem a bit blocky at 100%. I have changed playback and pause resolution to "Full." If I go to interpret footage, it says the file uses upper fields, so it's not progressive.

I never did much editing with CS4 so I'm not sure if this is any different than before. So how do I tell if it is able to or is doing any pulldown removal?

The good news is that it does at least play back pretty well for me. This is on a 2.4GHz Quad, 4GB RAM, software CUDA.
 
I have experienced corrupted .MTS play back also on 720 60p files and 1080 24p files...
I wondered if it was the codec I had or something...

the mercury play back is unbelievably fast!
 
butler360 said:
With CS5, when I import 1080 footage (60i) it shows as 29.97 in the project pane. When I put it on a 24P timeline it seems to play fine and I don't see any interlacing but it does seem a bit blocky at 100%. I have changed playback and pause resolution to "Full." If I go to interpret footage, it says the file uses upper fields, so it's not progressive.

I never did much editing with CS4 so I'm not sure if this is any different than before. So how do I tell if it is able to or is doing any pulldown removal?

The good news is that it does at least play back pretty well for me. This is on a 2.4GHz Quad, 4GB RAM, software CUDA.
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there is no need to remove pulldown in premiere as you stated. create 2 sequences in premiere - 1080 60i (or 30p for that matter) and a 1080 24p seq. drop your footage into one seq. then drag that footage into the 24p seq. use your arrow keys to go frame by frame. in the 60i or 30p seq, you will notice every 4th frame is repeated as it should be, and with no interlacing artifacts whatsoever. now go frame by frame in the 24p seq. viola! no repeated frames - 24 unique frames per second and again no interlacing artifacts.

when you right click on the footage in your bin and click 'interpret footage,' 'remove pulldown' is grayed out because there is no need to do this. premiere knows to do it if its in a 24p seq and will leave it be in a 30p or 60i seq.

couldnt be easier than this.

if you are having corrupted playback, its because you do not have the proper video card driver installed - even if it plays back fine in other apps.
 
ditto what Sam says... CS5 is really a dream to work with. I tried it out on a friends PC and was hooked so I went out and found a 64 bit win 7 system with 6g of ram for under 400 bucks shipped at tiger direct. Slapped in CS5 and it's been cutting like butter. I couldn't be happier with it.
 
Thanks for confirming that! I was really dreading having to do pulldown removal and transcoding on everything I record.

Just cut a small video together mixing native AVCHD files at 720/60P (slowed to 40%) and 1080/60i (apparently conformed to 1080/24P by CS5) on a 1080/24P timeline and rendered it out to a 1080P 30mbit H264 mp4 and it all looks good to me. Editing was pretty smooth and even if the 1080P footage sometimes looked bad while editing (sometimes blocky or on transitions interlace lines would sneak up, as if it didn't have time to process the footage), the final product looks good.

So CS5 really is a pretty decent improvement. They also fixed some annoying issues with Media Encoder.
 
Resizing which way? I've exported a 1080P file with upscaled 720P footage and that looks fine. Haven't made smaller files, though.
 
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