Hi fellow Premiere users, I have what I think will be a simple question but I want to make sure I am doing this right... I conducted a long interview with 2 Nikon DSLRs (D850, D750) (tight/wide) and a lav mic wired directly into the wide angle camera (reduced in-camera sensitivity) while recording reference audio from a shotgun mic into an external audio recorder. The D850 recorded 4K footage with the best audio recorded directly in camera. The D750 recorded in camera sound (auto sensitivity) and 1080p. As you can see, I made a sequence with all the D850 interview clips synced with the reference audio (shotgun mic). I synced these by manually selecting the reference audio and 1 clip at a time and using the audio synchronize feature. What I want to do is export this sequence as 1 master video clip that I can use to log the interview without any compression/loss of original data. My question is to verify that I am going about this the right way (using the export media tool under file) as opposed to i.e. making a nested sequence or merging clips and to verify that if exporting media is the best practice, that my export settings make sense. What I am particularly confused about is when I hit "match sequence settings" it says the output media will be 1080p... why is that? I made the sequence originally based on 4k clips... if I change the format to Quicktime and use the Apple Pro Res 422 HQ codec it does show 4k output ... but now I am suspicious I may be missing another dimension of the export parameters (this aspect of post-production always confuses me). Any experts able to make sure I am on the right track here? Screenshots below.. ... View more

Hi everyone, For the past few days I have been struggling through a workflow issue. I have a personal affinity for ingesting and logging my footage in Adobe Prelude before moving it into Premiere for the edit. For this project I am shooting on an assortment of cameras, one of which shoots 4K on a 2015 MacBook Pro 2.5 Ghz, 16GB RAM, media on USB3 external drive. I know some people would just edit with the primary media Prelude was being sluggish (taking forever to open / lagging with the clips, particularly the 4K clips) so I started to explore a proxy workflow. I became a fan because of the logic of it, and particularly liked the idea of being able to keep the master media on my Thunderbay RAID5 array and the proxies on my USB3 drive for travel / speed. Fast forward, I have transcoded all my footage into H.264 720p proxy files (I have since learned that H.264 using temporal compression makes it less than ideal for a proxy file but don't have time to re-transcode them into ProRes or Dnx). These proxy files I have reviewed and made subclips of in Adobe Prelude (see screenshot). I then sent the Footage_proxy and Selects bins to Premiere and proceeded to *successfully* "Reconnect Full Res Media" for my master files (see second screenshot) but my subclips do not carry over that Full Res Media reconnection. This was the confusing part for me. I first attempted to just "Reconnect Full Res Media" on the subclips which does connect the media but renames the subclips with the name of the master file defeating the point of me labeling them intelligently for the editing process. I then did some Googling and found that if I Offline Media the subclip > Relink Media the subclip (to the master file) > Attach Proxy the proxy file I do achieve the desired outcome BUT this only works on one subclip at a time. I have too many subclips to do this for the whole project. My question is: is there something I'm missing in this workflow? Something I should have done differently? My current course of action is to edit using the proxy media subclips without the master files associated to the subclips at all, and only once the sequence is finalized or close to finalized, use my above Offline>Relink>Attach Proxy workaround on only the clips I have used in the sequence. This does not feel very efficient or practical and I would appreciate some input on how I can use Prelude, Premiere and a proxy workflow together. I have been researching extensively and I seem to be one of the only people interested in this process. Thank you, Nick ... View more