5k to 1080

[Ron Elliot]

I am trying to go conform in Premiere from 5k to 1080 to do some small offline edits however I am having issues. Can you do a media manger like in FCP to down covert the media to 1080? I tried to go to RedCine X with no luck, any suggestions


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[Timothy Eaton]

If I understand correctly you want to edit 5k footage from a 5k sequence as 1080. Just copy the media from the 5k sequence and paste it into a 1080 sequence.

Or are you trying to export? With the timeline selected, File / Export /Media.

Tim Eaton

 

[Louis Maddalena]

Ron,

Are you talking about making proxies of the 5k Material so you can edit in 1080p and then reconform back to 5k in the future? I usually do this by creating files in RCX in 1080, and just making sure the names are the same, then I reconnect later. However, I am using FCP so that is the easiest way for me. Lately, I've been slowly migrating to premiere for my projects and I find I don't need to use proxies any more, since I can just lower the playback resolution and it works just as good.

 

[Ron Elliot]

In FCP there is a way to media mange the footage, converting it to what ever codec you want. I want to keep my edit point and time line and go down to 1080.

 

[Stefan Scherperel]

You do no need to convert the footage first.
Simply make a new sequence, select the red preset for 1080P that matches your footage frame rate ans aspect ratio, copy your footage from your original timeline and paste in the new timeline. Select all the footage in the new timeline and right click. Check the box that says "scale footage to frame size".
Your footage is now automatically being debayered at 1080P instead of 5K, performance for exporting and playback will be improved as well, just make sure not to check "render at maximum quality" in your export settings as this will dabayer footage at 5K and then scale the footage which really slows things down. Plus the footage looks just as good exported at 1080P as if you were to check maximum quality.

 

[Ron Elliot]

Yeah I know how to do that but how do you export or conform to 1080, I want to be able to go to FCP with a 1080 media and edit audio and video

 

[Nawaf Alsabhan]

Fastest way would be to conform to 1080 using Adobe Media Encoder, just set the watch folder to the folder with all the 5K R3D files, and choose the transcode to Apple Prores 1080P, but you'll need to download Prores presets (mac only)
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5411

Another way is doing it in Redcine-x pro.