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Have You Hugged Your Metadata Today? Part 2

Mar 24, 2008 12:00 PM, By Jan Ozer

P2 import/export in Premiere Pro

           

In the last segment, I extolled the virtues of Panasonic’s P2 cards and the Material eXchange Format (MXF) used thereon. In this segment I review Adobe’s P2 and MXF workflow. Just to change things up, I’ll write this segment as a FAQ, rather than a narrative, which will identify the questions I feel are key to any implementation of P2/MXF support, and also let the hurried reader quickly find the issues most relevant to them. Keeps the word count down, as well—which is nice, because I’m way over.

What version of Adobe Premiere Pro are you describing?

You’ll need to update to at least 3.1.1 (374) to get the features I’m about to describe.

Figure 1. Here are Adobe Premiere Pro’s DVCPRO-related presets, which you can augment with custom presets.
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What types of DVCPRO projects can Premiere Pro handle?

Figure 1 shows the presets. Between frame rate, frame size, progressive and interlaced, and data rates, apparently there are dozens of different project types (the number 81 pops into mind, but I couldn’t find the source). Figure 1 shows the presets that Adobe supplies, which you can augment with custom presets.

I shot and tested only DVCPRO HD projects at 1080 24p and 1080 60i.

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