{"id":9027,"date":"2010-05-10T20:44:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T18:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philipbloom.co.uk\/?p=9027"},"modified":"2010-05-11T21:47:03","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T19:47:03","slug":"yep-am-about-to-learn-how-to-edit-in-premiere-all-because-of-native-h264-editing-in-cs5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/yep-am-about-to-learn-how-to-edit-in-premiere-all-because-of-native-h264-editing-in-cs5\/","title":{"rendered":"Yep, am about to learn how to Edit in Premiere all because of Native H264 editing in CS5"},"content":{"rendered":"

I never thought I would say this but i am learning how to cut in Premiere. I aways dismissed it as an amateur tool. Much preferring my Final Cut Pro. All because this CS5 is damn amazing. You do need a powerful MAC with the right graphics cards. My new i7 17″MBP works great with it.<\/p>\n

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A market that i know who will LOVE this is the wedding market with there SAME DAY EDITS shot using DSLRs, this would make their stress levels at lot lower!<\/p>\n

Jason Levine wrote this piece for PVC and did an excellent video all about it. He explains it way better than me!<\/a> Jason is an Adobe Evangelist and he is often seen at events promoting Adobe which is where I met him at a FPUG meeting.<\/p>\n

Native DSLR Editing in Premiere Pro CS5<\/h2>\n
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Now that CS5 has officially been announced, launched, and available for download and purchase, I figured it was time to blog about one of my favorite features in Premiere Pro\u2026Native DSLR editing.<\/p>\n

A few months back, while on Press Tour in Singapore I purchased a Canon 7D. Having only worked with some 5DMKII footage (during our demo-asset creation phase) I was really psyched to \u2018get my hands dirty\u2019 and see what these cameras could do on the video side. And more importantly, really test the power and push the boundaries of the Mercury Playback Engine.<\/p>\n

In this brief tutorial, I\u2019ll show you (very quickly) how to take your DSLR footage, regardless of frame-size, frame rate or aspect ratio, and start cutting your vision together\u2026in seconds. As with RED R3D, AVC-Intra and XDCAM-EX (among many others), we handle DSLR footage NATIVELY; those H.264 files straight from your Canon or Nikon cameras can be dropped into Premiere Pro, and you just, well, EDIT. No transcoding, no wasting time. And remember: Bridge CS5\u2019s \u2018Photo Downloader\u2019 can be used to simply grab the video files from your camera\u2019s media card. That\u2019s how I do it (but you\u2019ll see reading from cards directly too). Adding transitions, Color Correction, Keying, other effects\u2026it all works the same. And the with amazing new 64-bit Mercury Playback Engine, you can work with these effects and playback without rendering.** Check it out\u2026<\/p>\n

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DSLR Editing in Premiere Pro CS5<\/a> from Jason Levine<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I hope to do a little follow-up in the coming weeks on some additional DSLR workflows. In the meantime, if you want to learn more about the power of the Mercury Playback Engine (and the 64-bit capabilities of Premiere Pro) be sure to check out\u00a0Karl\u2019s latest Short & Suite episode<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And if you want to download the trial of CS5 Production Premium, click\u00a0HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Blog on\u2026preferably, in 64-bit\u00a0\"wink\"

**Mercury by itself is a software engine. As such, even on my MBP laptop (the newest model, 17\u201d COREi7 w\/8GB RAM) I\u2019m able to typically add Fast Color Corrector (a 32-bit floating-point color effect), Sharpening and Levels and *still* get real-time playback, without any kind of rendering or GPU acceleration. For more info on leveraging Mercury with GPU-accelerated cards, watch the Short&Suite video above.<\/p>\n