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July 30, 2017
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Lumix GH3 or Canon 750d/80D, which files are better for Premiere CS5?

  • July 30, 2017
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Dear All

I am in the market for a decent DSLR that´s also good for video and want to make sure the material will also be good to handle with my Premiere CS5

Right now, according to my budget, I consider these:

1) Lumix GH3 (second hand) because of the  seemingly terrific video specific specs

2) Canon 750D/800D (paying a bit more)/ 80D (second hand)

As said I have Adobe Premiere CS5 installed (original, no download!!) and want to keep it that way.

Specs: Windows 7, an i7 intel (I think it´s the 2600) and 16 GB of RAM, onboard graphics.

My question, if you are in the position to answer that:

Just looking at the video formats these cameras can produce, which one would you rather recommend for editing of Full HD material (1080) with my Premiere?

I´d like to avoid "converting" with third party tools as much as possible, it would be great if I could just import the files into my projects...  The GH3 seems to offer more choices, and I have read some horror storys about the canon 264 codec material and premiere, for instance, and thought the best place to ask is right here in this forum.

Thanks for reading this, I´d enormously apreciate even a short answer

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Bonus question A) I was super happy when I found the specs of the GH3 but then saw some videos about the autofocus in video mode being rather bad...so if you have this camera and are writing me anyhow about the premiere quesiton, I´d also apreciate a quick input (can be super short).

Bonus question B) I have trouble finding good unaltered sample files for some of these cameras to run tests on my PC, do you have any link you can share?

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    Ann Bens
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    Ann BensCommunity Expert
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    July 30, 2017

    Anything but mov, proress or dnxhd.

    CS5 uses Quicktime 32 Server which will cripple the system to only using 4 gig of ram.

    If you go for avchd you need a good machine as these files are heavily compressed.

    i_am_the_count
    i_am_the_countAuthor
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    July 30, 2017

    Hi Ann, thanks for answering! Did´t know about the 4 gig ram problem... but are you trying to say that my PC with i7 intel is a "bad" machine and will be unable to handle the workload?

    I´m not sure I understand your first line "Anything but mov, proress or dnxhd." - do you mean I should find a camera that outputs "anything but" these formats .....?

    I´m also unsure if or how I am "going for avchd"...is that what the canons do output, or the lumix, or both?

    Ann Bens
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    Ann BensCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 30, 2017

    No idea if you machine can handle avchd: trial and error.

    I´m not sure I understand your first line "Anything but mov, proress or dnxhd." - do you mean I should find a camera that outputs "anything but" these formats .....?

    that is what i said.

    As workaround one could change the mov extention to mpg to avoid using the QT32server: trial and error.

    If you are upgrading your gear might consider upgrading Pr.

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