.movs in premiere cs3

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Joshbalti

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Ok heres my dillema,
I just aquired a regular series of jobs whereby i need to do day edits (ie start in the morning and have final cut uploaded by days end) now all the rushes i'm getting are .mov's encoded in what i think is the apple intermidate codec, and basically this format isn't jiving to well with CS3 on PC, it's causing lots of slowdown and crashing all the time. i have re-exported all the rushes to a more workable format (ntsc DV avi), however this obviously takes time, (about 1/4 real time) and time is something i don't have with this job, so i was wondering if anyone has any recomendations of how, A) to get premiere to work better with the native footage (720p, 30fps, .movs , and AIC codec i think) or B) could recomend a reliable and FAST method of transcoding the movs to AVI's, i am using adobe media encoder at the moment, but it's far to slow. Any help would be greatly appreciated
 
AIC wouldn't open on a PC at all. The files are not AIC.

For transcoding to .AVI files, I use a piece of freeware called "Prism". It's very fast at what it does, but I have a fast machine. If you are running CS3, I am assuming you are not using it on modern hardware. There may not be a lot you can do to speed up your process.

At some point, you really have to test your workflow to make sure you can actually deliver on what you are promising. Same day edits can be a BEAR, and there is no way I'd promise I could do them unless I had redundant systems with a good amount of speed. There are just so many things that can go wrong, and you're running on a tightrope.
 
And if you're converting to NTSC DV AVI then you're degrading the files even more. You would need to use either Uncompressed AVI or Microsoft AVI with the compressor set to None to preserve the original quality.
 
Well, there are a few codecs that are good without going uncompressed. Like DV100, but in any event, he's going to have his hands full doing a transcode and trying to do SDE. Particularly in CS3.
 
Huy Vu said:
You would need to use either Uncompressed AVI or Microsoft AVI with the compressor set to None to preserve the original quality.
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Don't know why i did'nt think of that one myself... seems to be the best solution, and is converting my files at a little over real time as we speak, so cheers for the suggestion man.
 
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