Best export codec from CS4?

[Ben Goldenberg]

I rendered some footage out for a friend using red cine to 2k prores HQ. He then edited in Premiere on a mac, no problem so far.

Then he wanted to bring it back to me to color correct on my mac system - which doesn't have CS4 - only final cut pro and color.

He tried to render it out using pro res - but apparantly cs4 does not have a pro res option for rendering? So he tried several different options: Animation, No compression, h.264 etc... unfortunately either the files are too big to work with or have weird compression artifacts in the background.

I was wondering if anyone knows what the best way to export 2k footage from cs4 is without getting these weird artifacts - or if there IS a way to export prores HQ from Premiere?

Thanks.

[Tom.Wong]

export it out as something like animation, bring it to his mac, recompress it via MPEG STREAMCLIP to pro res. there should be little to no loss with only 2 passes like that, you'll have to recreate your EDIT POINTS in fcp as if you bring a whole piece into color it will effect the whole thing, if u have a lot of dissolves and picture and picture it's gonna be really tricky. does premiere have a dpx option too? you can send it out as a dpx sequence and bring it straight into color like that, OR, hold out a bit for cs5, upgrade and you can send out a FCP XML, and bring your timeline direct into FCP, then color. CS5 is only around the corner...

[Elsie N]

Any body know if you can buy just an upgrade Premiere Pro to the CS5 capability?

[Tom.Wong]

Yes, you should be able to just buy the upgrade when it ships.

[Elsie N]

Yes, you should be able to just buy the upgrade when it ships.
Will ship same as the first products release of CS5, or later? Newegg pre-purchase suggests May 3rd while Amazon says upgrade available June 30.

[Mohammed El Sharqawy]

I rendered some footage out for a friend using red cine to 2k prores HQ. He then edited in Premiere on a mac, no problem so far.

Then he wanted to bring it back to me to color correct on my mac system - which doesn't have CS4 - only final cut pro and color.

He tried to render it out using pro res - but apparantly cs4 does not have a pro res option for rendering? So he tried several different options: Animation, No compression, h.264 etc... unfortunately either the files are too big to work with or have weird compression artifacts in the background.

I was wondering if anyone knows what the best way to export 2k footage from cs4 is without getting these weird artifacts - or if there IS a way to export prores HQ from Premiere?

Thanks.


Cineform..
better wait to CS5..

[Mike Harrington]

don't even look at h.264 for grading....

cineform is the best, if you don't want to buy that ....then the blackmagic codec is free on there site and a decent codec.

top quality besides cineform would be in an image sequence....openexr with the wavelet encoding is a very good choice for the size, and theres always dpx

i don't know about proresHQ export from premiere, but i would bet you could from ae

[Edgar Pitts]

Cineform all day... They have a free 15 day trial that lets you encode your files. You can decode the files with their free codec after that. I have found the quality to be second to none, and they offer a wonderful utility that rewraps AVIs to MOVs and vice-versa for back and forth between PC and Mac. I also found that you get about 75% compression (25% file size) from uncompressed or 10 bit DPX making this a great space saving tool as well.

Edgar

[Uli Plank]

ProRes is working fine on the Mac, but you can't generate it on a PC.