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Sony Burano XOCN LT Footage in Premiere 24.6. : No hardware acceleration, Processor at 100%

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August 28, 2024
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I am currently working on a Doc Feature in Premiere. I have mostly 8K footage from RED V-Raptor and some SONY Burano Footage.

The RED Raw footage works fine as usual with hardware acceleration, the SONY X-OCN LT codec doesnt get Hardware acceleration at all. Processor is at 100% when playing these clips. GPU basically not used.
I thought Premiere supports these new SONY codecs?

My computer is more than capable (i can play both files/codecs without problems in native 8K in Resolve):

i9-14900K, 4090, 64GB RAM, Nvme RAID thunderbolt RAID system.

Any ideas what i could do to get the hardware acceleration going?

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juliepmachado

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Hi, is there any news on this topic? @Fergus Kousha ?

I've been mostly working with Sony XAVC, but my studio got a Burano and we're trying some projects with X-OCN. I can lower the playback and watch it on up to 2x speed. But that's too slow for my workflow. I have to go through a bit of b-roll and I usually watch it faster, and sometimes even scroll on the footage to find the right moment I've been looking for, and that's very difficult. I tried creating proxies but it's so slow that it wasn't worth it. Will there be hardware acceleration introduced for this codec? Thanks!

R Neil Haugen

Legend

What was slow about the proxies? And one thing I've normally done with larger projects is setting their creation while I'm away from the computer.

So I'm wondering what was the trouble slowing proxies?

And of course, getting better X-OCN support would be a good thing.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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juliepmachado

Participating Frequently

Hi Neil, because I normally get hardware acceleration to create the proxies, I can make them really quickly. I also move away from the pc, but it doesn't take more than 1h for the average project. I have a pretty decent GPU, but I haven't concerned myself with the CPU in a while. I realised now that it's about 5 years old, so for a 40s clip it's taking about 8min to create the proxy. So while I don't have the CPU upgraded, I've been creating the proxies on my macbook pro, which has a pretty good processor. So my workflow is all messed up at the moment, having to move the footage a lot from NAS to SSD to M.2 than back to NAS.

Better support for X-OCN would be amazing!

jamieclarke

Community Manager

Hi @escanar - Premiere Pro introduced native support for X-OCN LT in version 24.2. However, X-OCN LT is not HW accelerated, XAVC files from the BURANO are hardware accelerated. If you are cutting with 8K X-OCN material reducing the playback to half should get you better performance without sacrificing quality.

Here is an article discussing working with files from the Sony Burano Camera 5 Tips to Master the Sony BURANO in Adobe Premiere Pro

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escanarAuthor

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Hi Jamie, thank you for the answer.

Unfortunately lowering the resolution doesn't improve the performance for me, which is strange. I mostly work with RED footage where this was absolutely the case (before I had my new system which can play 8K raw without interruptions).

Maybe this could be a problem of the new codec.

R Neil Haugen

Legend

@Fergus Kousha is the person that would be best assistance.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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escanarAuthor

Participant

Thank you, do you suggest to write him directly?

R Neil Haugen

Legend

I'm hoping he'll notice the "ping" and pop in. He's in charge of codecs and is both very knowledgeable and helpful.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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