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Todd KCCO
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August 1, 2019
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Premiere Sequence Settings for Canon 5D MK IV?

  • August 1, 2019
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I've been trying to find what the go to or default settings should be for Canon 5D MK IV and have found nothing to really answer it.

Basically the default sequence settings when I start a new sequence or drop in 5D footage is the Arri 1080p.

Is this the best one for my footage or is there another, like DSLR 1080p?

Does it make a difference?

Jessie

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Sumeet Kumar ChoubeyCommunity Manager
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August 1, 2019

Hi Jessie,

You may refer to the points I have mentioned in this post.

Workflow from Sony a7III

The discussion was around Sony a7III but it will still be applicable to Canon 5d Mark IV.

That being said Warren made a really good point of transcoding the file to a better codec like Apple ProRes. Especially if you are shooting 4K on 5d Mark IV which uses Motion JPEG.

Thanks,

Sumeet

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    Todd KCCOAuthor
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    August 1, 2019

    Thank you Sumeet, I will check that out. Yeah no 4k right now, hard drive space is taxing enough in the 1080P world as it is.

    Cheers,

    Jessie

    Warren Heaton
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    Warren HeatonCommunity Expert
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    August 1, 2019

    Transcode your camera original footage to a CODEC that supports Smart Rendering (Smart rendering in Premiere Pro ).

    I recommend Apple ProRes422 (LT) or Apple ProRes422 (HQ), but GoPro Cineform 3 will work well, too.

    You can do the transcode in Adobe Media Encoder and then import the resulting clips into your project or set the Ingest Setting for the Premiere Pro project to do it.

    Use "New Sequence From Clip" on a transcoded clip and you should be good to go.  (In older versions of Premiere Pro, you have to go into the Sequence Settings and change the Editing Mode to Custom and the Preview File Format to Quicktime Apple ProRes; however, the current version should do this for you.)

    Does it make a difference?  Yes, but does the difference matter?  If you're doing really quick turnaround footage for social media that may get some views for a day or so, maybe don't bother.  If you're doing something that requires an edited master that can be repurposed for a variety of delivery options, then transcode.

    If I remember correctly, the Canon 5D records long-GOP MPEG2 in a QuickTime wrapper.  This is a great 1st generation file for transcoding to a mezzanine CODEC (that is, a CODEC that's good for editing).  It's not as good of a file as it could be for editing.

    You might look into video field recorders that record directly to Apple ProRes like the ones made by Atomos (https://www.atomos.com/ ).  On the editing side, I'm always much happier than the camera person hands of ready-to-edit footage.

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      Todd KCCOAuthor
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      August 1, 2019

      Thank you for the transcoding information Warren, I appreciate the time. I will definitely do that for my freelance projects and personal footage when and if I ever get around to editing my own videos... lol.

      For the most part my work is mainly for social media and I shoot a boat load of footage, so that would be too much extra work for the platform.

      As long as I'm not automatically either dumbing the footage down between using Arri or the Digital SLR sequence, I'm good. Or that it isn't causing Premiere to work harder at playing the footage in one preference VS the other.

      Thank you again for your time.

      Jessie

      R Neil Haugen
      R Neil Haugen
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      August 1, 2019

      The name of the settings doesn't matter. What Premiere does is look at the media specs and then go down the Presets list alpha-numerically to find the first one with the same framerate, framesize, and audio channels.

      For most DSLR media that's the Arri sequence of the framerate/size.

      Neil

      Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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        Todd KCCOAuthor
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        August 1, 2019

        Thank you Neil,

        As I mentioned to Warren:

        As long as I'm not automatically either dumbing the footage down between using Arri or the Digital SLR sequence, I'm good. Or that it isn't causing Premiere to work harder at playing the footage in one preference VS the other.

        It sounds like it's the same thing as the other, so we're all good.

        Thanks again, Cheers!

        Jessie

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