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VIDEO CLIP VIEWING PROGRAM before CS5 ??

George D.

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Prior to working with the video clips in Adobe CS5, is there a software program that can be downloaded into a PC with Windows7 that will allow you to "look" at all the different scenes as "thumbnails" with their respective info below them, "regardless" of format ?

I am currently learning CS5 in preparation for the purchase and shooting with a RED-One or Scarlet. And, as expected, you cannot "see" the clips in the Windows7 viewer screen. You can, or course, see the first frame of each clip in CS5, but you have to download them into the program to do so.

I am just hoping there is a way to view the first frame of each clip on a single screen, before beginning the editing process. And, I want to be able to do this with ANY video, whether it is from a RED-One, a Canon 7D DSLR, or some consumer camcorder.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks.
 
George D. said:
I am currently learning CS5 in preparation for the purchase and shooting with a RED-One or Scarlet. And, as expected, you cannot "see" the clips in the Windows7 viewer screen. You can, or course, see the first frame of each clip in CS5, but you have to download them into the program to do so.
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I'm not 100% sure of behavior in Windows7 (I'm on Mac), but CS5 lets you do this in two ways. In Premiere Pro, use the Media Browser. Click on an R3D clip and it loads and plays in PPro's viewer. It isn't actually imported into the project at that point.

Second way is to use Adobe Bridge, which was installed with the CS5 package. It will let you view and play the RED QuickTime reference movies.

- Oliver
 
Oliver Peters said:
I'm not 100% sure of behavior in Windows7 (I'm on Mac), but CS5 lets you do this in two ways. In Premiere Pro, use the Media Browser. Click on an R3D clip and it loads and plays in PPro's viewer. It isn't actually imported into the project at that point.

Second way is to use Adobe Bridge, which was installed with the CS5 package. It will let you view and play the RED QuickTime reference movies.

- Oliver
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Thanks Oliver. It's great, and Adobe Bridge does exactly what I want it to do.

But, is there any way to get it to come up on it's own without opening CS5 first? I assume not, which is too bad.

If not, we're kinda back to my original question:

Is there a "separate" program that will allow "any", and "all", video clip files to be viewed? Not edited, just viewed in thumbnails.

Thanks.
 
George D. said:
But, is there any way to get it to come up on it's own without opening CS5 first?
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I don't know what you mean by opening CS5. Do you mean opening Premiere Pro? Bridge is one of the various apps within the Production Premium or Master Collection bundles, along with Premiere Pro, Encore, Soundbooth, etc. Just go to your program files and you should see a separate application icon to launch Adobe Bridge by itself. It also launches through the "browse" menu item in any of these apps.

- Oliver
 
Oliver Peters said:
I don't know what you mean by opening CS5. Do you mean opening Premiere Pro? Bridge is one of the various apps within the Production Premium or Master Collection bundles, along with Premiere Pro, Encore, Soundbooth, etc. Just go to your program files and you should see a separate application icon to launch Adobe Bridge by itself. It also launches through the "browse" menu item in any of these apps.

- Oliver
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Thanks again Oliver.

That is EXACTLY what I wanted. I thought I could only access it through the "browse" menu. Stupid me; I hadn't even thought to go to the program file and drag it onto the desktop.

Thanks, and take care.
 
I don't know if it reads R3D files on a PC. On the Mac, Bridge will read the QT refs from the R3D files, but not the R3D themselves. Apparently only PPro and AE do that.

Of course, what about Redcine-X? Or is that XP-only, so far?

- Oliver
 
Redcine-x will be fine for you. I work in Vista 64 and I can check the r3d files in Redcine-x than drag from redcine-x and drop them inside premiere. As easy as that..
 
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