GH2 Lightroom 4 is Out!

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daihard

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You can also export your AVCHD files in 3 flavors: NATIVE, h.264, and DPX. Not that i'd use lightroom's video exporting feature, but handy none the less.
I use mostly Final Cut Pro, but im sure if I shift over to Premier there wont be any issues tying the 2 programs together. Im curious about Final Cut X though... if the files will be able to imported easily.
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For those who were looking for a 'cheap' asset management tool, but did quite have that set of words for what they were hacking around for... This version of LR looks like an answer. By being able to do simple manipulations on AVCHD (aka MTS ) files, and trim to a clapper mark, or the like, this will allow people to organize their media much better.
 
I really hope that add the de-grain algorithm for transcoding in the future. LR or apature my be a program that we deal with in the future to transcode out RAW video files.
 
HotConductor said:
Why would you choose to use Lightroom to organize your media instead of your NLE?
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An 'asset management' catalog lives beyond the immediate project. As mentioned you can usually add tags, or have the management system read 'EXIF' info in the case of stills, or any 'meta data' hanging around for video media files (those 'useless' files in the AVCHD director structure that are not MTS files...), and then sort by tag elements or EXIF info.

Recently a fellow posted a request for info on managing a large set of clips they had made during a 'world trip'. I don't remember the details, or if it was in the GH-X forum... but lets see how an 'asset management' system would 'help'.

First off, 'ingest' the media into the management system. Then 'sort' by date of image capture, both stills and video. Since GH-1/2 doesn't capture as much metadata for video as it does for stills, use the EXIF info from a still shot at near the same time as taking video, will allow the still shot to act as a guide. Further, since the GH-1/2 doesn't have GPS, perhaps using one's 'iPhone' for a quick location capture would allow for pin point (or nearly so) capture of location data.

So, you can sort media by date, by GPS location, etc. and organize the large set of images and videos that one may have captured over a 2-3 week travel.

For 'narrative' shooting, one can add tags to indicate Shot, Take, and perhaps notes on the director's 'quality' of the take... This helps in editing significantly.

For people like my self who do travel, do take pictures, we are creating our on libraries, rather than having to always go to some service. So, I'd like to be able to easily get the catelog from the Italy trip I took 7 years ago... (a real life example...) and get my own shot of a 'quaint italianate village'... or a church fresco to be a model for some '3-d' set extension...

This is not 'doable' in the NLE... it is not 'doable' in Photoshop... while how the media is referenced in PS and Premiere differs, for example... each would be pretty awkward to manage assets across projects and time.

As an additional note, larger asset management systems often have some sort of 'automatic identification' software that attempts to categorize images based on content. Want a car, convertable, white top, red body, chrome hubcaps... eh wala... automatic indentification yeilds 100 images out 1000's... and then you can refine to what you want or decide you have to buy an asset to match what you want...

As a note, I don't use Lightroom at the moment, because it did not really support moving picture content... I will review it when I have time to see if it does 'measure' up to what I want...
 
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