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Best export codec from CS4?

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I rendered some footage out for a friend using red cine to 2k prores HQ. He then edited in Premiere on a mac, no problem so far.

Then he wanted to bring it back to me to color correct on my mac system - which doesn't have CS4 - only final cut pro and color.

He tried to render it out using pro res - but apparantly cs4 does not have a pro res option for rendering? So he tried several different options: Animation, No compression, h.264 etc... unfortunately either the files are too big to work with or have weird compression artifacts in the background.

I was wondering if anyone knows what the best way to export 2k footage from cs4 is without getting these weird artifacts - or if there IS a way to export prores HQ from Premiere?

Thanks.
 
export it out as something like animation, bring it to his mac, recompress it via MPEG STREAMCLIP to pro res. there should be little to no loss with only 2 passes like that, you'll have to recreate your EDIT POINTS in fcp as if you bring a whole piece into color it will effect the whole thing, if u have a lot of dissolves and picture and picture it's gonna be really tricky. does premiere have a dpx option too? you can send it out as a dpx sequence and bring it straight into color like that, OR, hold out a bit for cs5, upgrade and you can send out a FCP XML, and bring your timeline direct into FCP, then color. CS5 is only around the corner...
 
Any body know if you can buy just an upgrade Premiere Pro to the CS5 capability?
 
Tom.Wong said:
Yes, you should be able to just buy the upgrade when it ships.
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Will ship same as the first products release of CS5, or later? Newegg pre-purchase suggests May 3rd while Amazon says upgrade available June 30.
 
fromwimptopimp said:
I rendered some footage out for a friend using red cine to 2k prores HQ. He then edited in Premiere on a mac, no problem so far.

Then he wanted to bring it back to me to color correct on my mac system - which doesn't have CS4 - only final cut pro and color.

He tried to render it out using pro res - but apparantly cs4 does not have a pro res option for rendering? So he tried several different options: Animation, No compression, h.264 etc... unfortunately either the files are too big to work with or have weird compression artifacts in the background.

I was wondering if anyone knows what the best way to export 2k footage from cs4 is without getting these weird artifacts - or if there IS a way to export prores HQ from Premiere?

Thanks.
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Cineform..
better wait to CS5..
 
don't even look at h.264 for grading....

cineform is the best, if you don't want to buy that ....then the blackmagic codec is free on there site and a decent codec.

top quality besides cineform would be in an image sequence....openexr with the wavelet encoding is a very good choice for the size, and theres always dpx

i don't know about proresHQ export from premiere, but i would bet you could from ae
 
Cineform all day... They have a free 15 day trial that lets you encode your files. You can decode the files with their free codec after that. I have found the quality to be second to none, and they offer a wonderful utility that rewraps AVIs to MOVs and vice-versa for back and forth between PC and Mac. I also found that you get about 75% compression (25% file size) from uncompressed or 10 bit DPX making this a great space saving tool as well.

Edgar
 
ProRes is working fine on the Mac, but you can't generate it on a PC.
 
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