Video Workflow for Windows

also I know I sound like a total beginner, but I've heard of people using Da Vinci Resolve - I've never used it, how would I fit that in my work flow?

Shooting DSLR right?

I'd just edit your h264 assuming your computer is decent.

i like using mpeg streamclip then premiere

Adobe is great because you get dynamic link. Premiere to After effects and you never have to export.

then when im done there I export out quicktime h.264 animation quality for my non compressed

then bring it into abobe media encoder to encode for whereever the video is going.

I never convert my clips for editing, if you have cs6 im pretty sure you'l never run into format problems.

Why would you export out of premiere and then put it into encoder? You can send it directly to encoder.

When working in premiere I send it straight to encoder.

Most of the time though i do my whole project in AE, I KNOW you can send it to encoder from there to, but weirdly enough the option isn't even displayed in my composition drop down menu... never really bothered to figure out why.. (shrugs)

But now that I'm thinking about it, I guess you can just open media encoder and open the ae file and select your comp.

Cheers.

You do your whole project in AE?!?!


WHY???

I'm going to school for motion design, AE is my career :P

A lot of the time I'm NOT working with live action footage. I only use premiere to cut footage.

Chill haha

I like to convert all my clips to apple pro res 422 (when shooting on a DSLR) with MPEG Streamclip then edit them in premier send them over to AE for some finishing touches. I would love to do all the CC(color correction) in Resolve but I dont have a Cuda graphics card.

I've done a handful of speed tests with Media Encoder vs MPEG Streamclip, and they've shown Media Encoder to be faster than MPEG Streamclip by 10-15% - the more CUDA cores, the bigger that difference will be.

I fucking love Resolve because it can import ANYTHING, and it's a great conversion tool since unlike Media Encoder or AE, you can import folders that contains several layers of subfolders with footage and image sequences. Then it will export the individual clips to an identical folder structure without manually needing to create all the sub folders, AND it will name all the encoded footage based on its original name.

As a coloring tool, its integration with Premiere is great. Once you have a cut in Premiere that you're ready to color, just export a Final Cut XML out of Premiere and import it into Resolve. All your footage will import automatically with the cuts and layering in place. The only thing that won't transfer are certain effects and titles.

That said, Resolve does not have an easy learning curve - but even if you don't care about coloring it's a super powerful conversion tool.