basspig
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About half-way down the following page...
https://howgreenisyourgarden.wordpress.com/tag/using-smartffmpeg/
it explains how to do a rewrap with SmartFFMpeg.
It works on XAVC S from the Sony a7S in Premiere Pro CS6. I presume it will work on the other flavors of XAVC. The PCM audio is the right sample and bitrate it simply has to be rewrapped. There are other solutions using FFMpeg with commandline scripts but the one above is simpler. There is no muxing involved, just a simple rewrap. The content is there in the right file formats, just the wrong container to be seen by Premiere Pro CS6.
While the MP4 'works', the audio has been compressed to AAC. So far, I have not been able to find a suitable container that accepts both the h.264 and PCM audio. Quicktime was my hope, but it locks CS6 up tighter than a drum when I import the file rewrapped to MOV.
If I could solve the rewrap, I could batch process it on ingest, so it would be transparent.
RE: Renting software.. I've been using CS3 for nearly 7 years. I could have used it for another 7 if I hadn't made the jump to 4K. I did finally upgrade to CS6, which was a huge improvement. Of all the versions, it has the fewest bugs. Gone are the audio dropouts, random crashes, etc. and hello to more formats. Nice. And a huge performance increase with CUDA.
Why would I want to pay $50/month (for now--no telling what they'll jack it up to once everyone is dependent) for new bugs introduced to my software. Go on the Adobe forums for Premiere. Every other post is about problems with CC2015! A/v synch, audio hardware overload, dropped frames, sluggish UI, sluggish playback. Crashes. I'm one of the old school folks who believe in "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Every time there's an upgrade, there's months of debugging and testing on a 'sacrificial lamb' test bed before it gets deployed to the main workstation. CS6 just works, and I can get my work done predictably.
For my sporadic work, I'd miss payments a lot of months, and lose access to my projects. Or, heaven forbid, a disaster happens that causes a prolonged loss of internet service. Adobe could go tits up in the next economic crash. A lot of things could happen. If it's not completely under MY control, I don't trust it and can't consider it a safe business model.
CC might be fine for some types of editors who do a lot of collaborative work and the work flow is steady, so a $50 monthly nut is no problem for them. For those of us who may go 17 months between gigs, it's a waste of money to keep paying for software that's idle.
No sensible IT manager would allow his workstations to connect to the outside world. Why would you risk your livelihood to a computer virus or a hacker attack by connecting your workstation to the internet?
CS6 is amazingly stable, fast and feature laiden. I really like it. I recently got to see CC running on a friend's workstation that I built for him, based on an i7 and 16GB RAM and I wan't impressed. In fact, I found that a lot of familiar stuff was either yanked out or moved. And what a memory pig. Egads.. we're going to try some of my 4K XAVC clips next Tuesday on his machine just for kicks.. He doesn't own a 4K camera and only edits HD from his DSLRs, but it should be interesting.
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