With all the consternation surrounding Avid and the uncertainty of its future, I thought it would be best to expand my toolset.
I mean, I have this copy of Premiere CS 6 that's been collecting dust. Why not cut a little charity promo piece in it to see what's under the hood?
Simple enough. Footage shot from a Nikon with an H.264 codec shouldn't be too complicated, right?
I fire up Premiere and wait. Hmm. It's taking a while. What's happening on facebook? This CrossFit fail video is hilarious! Wait, is Premiere still loading? Hmm.
Force quit. Relaunch.
Let's read a bit about the NFL OTAs while it launches. Julius Peppers might be a beast this season under Dom Capers. Seriously, Premiere hasn't finished loading, yet?
Force quit. Restart the computer.
Launch Premiere. Only Premiere. Ok, we're in. Set up my bins and project settings. Point Premiere to my media. Good. No transcoding to be done. Good. Right click and make a sequence from my clip. Load that sequence. Press play. No monitor out through the Blackmagic card. Hmm. Check Blackmagic settings to match sequence settings. Ok. Picture. Press play and there are dropped frames and audio sync issues. Well, this isn't going to work for cutting. Bypass monitor out. Press play. Still clunky.
2.5 hours later.
Shut Premiere down. Launch Avid. Set up my bins, and AMA the media into the project. Play first clip. Monitoring out is working. There are no dropped frames, and the audio is in sync.
Whelp, Avid made the choice for me. It just works. I don't want to have to transcode the source media if I don't have to.
Thank you, Avid. Please don't go away.
I CAN'T QUIT YOU, AVID!
-Michael Kedor
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Posted by: Michael Kedor <mikedor@gmail.com>
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