Premiere Pro HVX HD workflow problems!

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Cleavage2

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Hey guys,

I've spent the last three days trying to figure this out, and I've come up with absolutely nothing. I've been crawling numerous message boards (mostly this one) to try and find answers to this HVX footage issue.

The main answers I've found are:

a) buy Raylight,
b) buy Avid Xpress Pro HD,
c) buy Final Cut Pro,
d) buy some sort of Cineform program?

Apart from that, I have been unable to find any free way that I can edit my HD footage. Now, there are MILLIONS of people who use Premiere Pro, so am I to really believe that every single one of those people who wants to shoot and edit HD HVX footage must purchase one of the above options? It can't be... can it?

If anyone with a lot more knowledge about this can inform me, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

- Dave.
 
Personally, I am not the biggest fan of Premiere, whether PC or Mac. My automatic advice would be to buy something else... anything else.

Adobe has announced native MXF support for Premiere, so we should see that "soon."

Meanwhile, the other side is better to be a talented editor in Premiere than a hack in Avid. In the final analysis, it's what you are comfortable using. Not a single viewer would ask how you shot and edited a piece.

Ned Soltz
 
I've been using Premiere Pro 2.0 lately, but I have a friend who's got CS3 with the supposed "native" MXF support so I tried it on his, and that STILL didn't work.

So is there really nothing that can be done except to spend more money?
 
Yeah, P2 MXF support will be available in Premiere CS3 very soon, but it's not out yet.

It will be posted here on DVXuser too as well when it's released.

- Mikko
 
Ok, but until that happens with CS3, I'm basically stuck? Except of course, spending money on Raylight for example.
 
Yup. I've been a cineform user for some time now but due to bugs that seem to popup and keep me from viewing footage and tech support that at least for me is terrible (maybe others have time to continually reinstall software and jump through hoops?) I've jumped over to Raylight and couldnt be happier. Will probably upgrade to cs3 (from cs2) when mxf support is released and people seem to be happy with it. Raylight is a great fix for me in the meantime as I've got some jobs to edit that will easily cover the cost of raylight. Demos for raylight and cineform (i used aspectHD) are available if you want to try them out.
 
Yeah, I tried to find a demo for Raylight a few days ago but couldn't seem to get one. However, I found one last night and gave it a shot. It converted the files fine, and I could import the .avi files into Premiere and edit it all good. However, isn't there an issue with editing converted HD footage in a SD project file? Is there still something I need to do in order to load a HD preset file project for Premiere?
 
Hiya for now you could get a 30 day fully working demo of Edius Broadcast where you have been able to edit P2 MXF for well over a year now, more like two.

I got frustrated with adobe waiting to see if CS3 were supporting it back when it was launched and got nothing so I just bought Edius Broadcast 4 which by the way has a free upgrade to 4.5. Thats the sort of great product and customer understanding I like. I can understand aying for a version 5, but for them to release 4.1, 4.2 & 4.5 as freebies, they got my money.

Richard
The Major
 
On your raylight demo find the premiere plugin *.prm (I forget the real name, but its the only one in there) and toss it in your plug ins folder. From there just bring the mxf out of the video folder straight in to your timeline. No conversion to AVI necessary. They show up with the red bar but playback just fine. For presets I just made custom ones that fit the project I was working on.
 
thanks for all the help and input. the more and more i use this raylight demo i keep thinking maybe it's just worth forking out the cash for the full version... i wish adobe had a street date for the CS3 MXF support though cause then i'd probably just hang out for that.
 
the projected date (from IBC), I think, was to have been "three weeks." I would suspect they already have it and are just making sure it's right before issuing the free patch . . . so "soon" is probably as close as we're going to get, info-wise.
 
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