Anyone transcoding footage?
 

Hi all - footage from my 5D3 is very choppy on the timeline (prem pro CS5.5) and occasionally, when rendering out it falls over when encountering 5D clips - not always though which is baffling. It's now driving me nuts and I want a solution before I get busy again with weddings this year.

I'm wondering if anyone has similar problems and how you get around them - can you recommend any transcoding solutions.

AVCHD footage and XAVC-S from my other cams play smoothly without any problems.

Pete

Re: Anyone transcoding footage?
 

Hi Pete. I hope more expert people come in, but I'll ask some questions that may she'd some light.

Are the clips from your 5D on an SSD drive? Are you using All-I compression? Which effects are you applying to the clips? Have you tried editing on another editor to see if the problem occurs there? What is your OS and computer specs?

Re: Anyone transcoding footage?
 

changed my mind on this one.

Re: Anyone transcoding footage?
 

Chris I'm using IPB compression. The clips are on a standard 7,200 speed hard drive (not SSD) and on the timeline they have no effects. Clips play smooth only for a couple of seconds and then get choppy.

Intel i7 processor 3.40/ghz, Windows 7, 16GB Ram, 1.5GB Nvidia CUDA card - it's a pretty decent setup.

Pete

Re: Anyone transcoding footage?
 

It's definitely a codec issue then. Either upgrade to cs6 or transcode. I haven't tried it, but many recommend DNxHD from Avid.

UPDATE: Here is one program that I've used in the past for transcoding:
http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-win.html

Re: Anyone transcoding footage?
 

Cheers guys :)