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Epic-W 4k ProRes 422 HQ Proxies Split into Multiple Clips

Kevin Reilly

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I'm trying to edit with ProRes 422 proxies and sync audio but all of the clips are split up when I import into Premiere CC. Because of this I can't synch my audio.

I'm aware that red divides long clips into 4gb segments, but no matter how I try and import I can't get them to ingest as a single clip.

Is anyone else experiencing this problem?
 
It says in the media browser that I can only pick File Directory. Every clip has a different part of the whole clip, which I would expect but it isn't reading it as a RED file.
 
Not sure if this will help, but right now I'm working with a TON of GH4 clips that require syncing with a couple other files. As you may know, GH4's break their clips up too.

What I do is throw them all on a timeline. I get the GH4 clips all next to each other and then layer all the other files above or below the GH4 ones, just roughly, not synced yet. Looking at the entire sequence fully zoomed out, it's easy to tell where the GH4 was actually started and stopped during production, since all the camera 4GB pieces are nearly identical in length. Then I highlight everything and drag it so that there is quite a bit of empty space at the beginning of the timeline. Then I grab the FIRST GH4 clip (and whatever needs to sync with it) and drag them closer to the beginning of the timeline. With just those clips selected, I right click and then synchronize. Once they are synced up, I just drag the rest of the GH4 4GB pieces down to the first, now synced GH4 clip, and they are therefore synced up too. Then I trim all the other files up to each other so the beginning and ends are all nice and tighty. Then I repeat this for each of the remaining "start and stop" series of GH4 clips.

That may sound confusing, but it's really easy, and I would have synced an hour or two of footage way faster than it took me to type this post.
 
I've developed a simple tool on the PC side of things for ProRes. Just figuring out how to release it and make it a bit more simplified.
 
In FCPX I see inly one file when I open the folder from the import window, I suppose fcpx already does the job :)
 
Found the source of the problem

Found the source of the problem

Found the solution, but has to be done in-camera. When you format the REDmags, you have to change it from FAT32 to UDF.
 
Kevin Reilly said:
I'm trying to edit with ProRes 422 proxies and sync audio but all of the clips are split up when I import into Premiere CC. Because of this I can't synch my audio.

I'm aware that red divides long clips into 4gb segments, but no matter how I try and import I can't get them to ingest as a single clip.

Is anyone else experiencing this problem?
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For future reference, format your mini mags in the UDF format instead of FAT 32. This feature was added around firmware 7.0 I think and I’ve been using it for Prores and Raw recordings for 2 years without problems. It removes the 4gb file size limit of FAT 32 so that you can have just the one single Prores file for as long as you have space to record. Also, I highly suggest always doing secure format for that extra sense of reliability. Good luck on the current project!
 
Tyler Zak said:
Found the solution, but has to be done in-camera. When you format the REDmags, you have to change it from FAT32 to UDF.
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Yep. U can record both Raw & Pro Res for assurance. Just make sure u have the card space or shoot at high compression ( that is comfortable) if you don’t.
 
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