PPP3 - Premier & Prelude Skills

Brushing up on Premier Skills

- To avoid the media offline message when re-opening a Project Folder for the 2nd time when not using the original piece of hardware with the imported Data on do the following:

- Transfer all data you will use onto your personal hard drive so you always have access to the data you might need for your project folder. 

One way to transfer data (video format) is to use Adobe Prelude, which is similar to using Bridge prior to using Photoshop for Image files.

Prelude:

Hard Drive format is best to be set to XFAT (which will require a Reformat if not XFAT format already). FAT32 will restrict you to not having files bigger than 4GB and will also not function on Windows but not Mac.

XFAT WILL work on Windows/Mac and allow larger files than 4GB.

Viable Codec for editing - more lossless filetype:

DVX HD (365x, 1080p, 444)

- 444 = Lossless, every Pixel is encoded. 

- 422 = Compressed, loss of colour data.

H264 however is a compressed file. (Equivalent to JPEG in image filetype terms).

Prelude also gives you the ability to Batch rename files (Similar to rendering an image sequence in Maya).

Premier:

"New Sequence from Clip" > In order to match Timeline footage and Imported footage codecs. 

- Necessary skill-set within the industry to know how to name files correctly, organize folders, back them up and arrange the correct codecs to files. 

Editing/Effects are very similar to interface within After Effects.