I am editing 1080p footage from a 5d mark ii in Premiere Pro CS5.5. Playback is very slow, even with no filters in place. The bar at the top of the timeline is always yellow and sometimes during playback, it will freeze on a frame while the player head keeps moving in the timeline and the audio keeps playing.
Here are my specs:
2010 MacBook Pro
8 gigs DDR3 ram
2.66 GHz Intel Core i7
Mercury Playback Engine enabled
Premiere Pro CS5.5
Using an external hd with Firewire 800 for all my media
I read that transcoding the footage using Cineform Neoscene makes the footage easier for Premiere to edit since the native 5d mark ii footage requires Premiere to calculate the "in-between" frames.
So should I transcode my footage before editing it in Premiere? If so, what is the best tool to do so and what should I encode the footage too? I am also concerned with losing quality in the footage when transcoding the footage.
Here are my specs:
2010 MacBook Pro
8 gigs DDR3 ram
2.66 GHz Intel Core i7
Mercury Playback Engine enabled
Premiere Pro CS5.5
Using an external hd with Firewire 800 for all my media
I read that transcoding the footage using Cineform Neoscene makes the footage easier for Premiere to edit since the native 5d mark ii footage requires Premiere to calculate the "in-between" frames.
So should I transcode my footage before editing it in Premiere? If so, what is the best tool to do so and what should I encode the footage too? I am also concerned with losing quality in the footage when transcoding the footage.