Catalyst browse solves a lot

royfphoto wrote on 2/17/2015, 9:35 AM
I have been shooting UHD with a GH4 panasonic which spits out a MP4 of different flavors none of which are NLE friendly (especially with wimpy graphics in Resolve). In fact there were only 2 UHD intermediate formats until recently (Resolve uses DNxHR now.. but not recognized in much else.) The December issue of Catalyst Browse gives great scopes pegged to .709; a viewer that is .709, very nice color correction tools (wheels, curves) and allows transcode of all this to a very NLE friendly XAVC file.Really speedy..opens in Resolve, Vegas, Premiere. I used to be a Cineform fan but since the GoPro buy out it has not kept up. Check it out for free. Hey Sony how about a discount for Vegas users on Catalyst Prepare?

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Wolfgang S. wrote on 2/17/2015, 12:37 PM
GH4 internal recorded files can be edited in Vegas Pro 13 with my older i7 2600K 4.2 Ghz with an old GTX 570 without any transcoding - the only issue is that one may have to use the script that reduces the lenght of the video part of the files. I wonder if your machine is weaker then mine?

The major issue that I see is that Shogun files recorded with the GH4 and the Shogun cannot be edited in Vegas, since Vegas crashes after the import of 20-25 ProRes 10bit 422 Shogun files. Beside that, these files seems to be not decoded in Vegas as 10bit.

Unfortunately, the Catalyst will be less helpfull in the Windows world since ProRes cannot be imported at all - only in the Mac version. Very borring.

A solution was to use TMPGenc to transocode the Shogun-GH4-files to the Cineform codec, which you can receive for free when installing the free GoProStudio in your system (at least that was possible up to now). The Cineform UHD files are great in Vegas, in terms of preview capabilities - and they are decoded as 10bit what is great to.

Desktop: PC AMD 3960X, 24x3,8 Mhz * RTX 3080 Ti (12 GB)* Blackmagic Extreme 4K 12G * QNAP Max8 10 Gb Lan * Resolve Studio 18 * Edius X* Blackmagic Pocket 6K/6K Pro, EVA1, FS7

Laptop: ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED * internal HDR preview * i9 12900H with i-GPU Iris XE * 32 GB Ram) * Geforce RTX 3070 TI 8GB * internal HDR preview on the laptop monitor * Blackmagic Ultrastudio 4K mini

HDR monitor: ProArt Monitor PA32 UCG-K 1600 nits, Atomos Sumo

Others: Edius NX (Canopus NX)-card in an old XP-System. Edius 4.6 and other systems

royfphoto wrote on 2/17/2015, 4:13 PM
My comparison of the XAVC MXF vs Cineform UHD files,:I prefer the XAVC, it will smart render in Vegas and plays a lot better in Resolve, and the transcode is much quicker. My problem isn't so much in Vegas as running it in Resolve. Pretty good specs:
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High 4:2:2 Intra@L5.1
Format settings, CABAC : No
Format settings, GOP : N=1
Format settings, wrapping mode : Frame
Codec ID : 0D01030102106001-0401020201323001
Duration : 5mn 55s
Bit rate : 304 Mbps
Width : 3 840 pixels
Height : 2 160 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Standard : Component
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:2
Bit depth : 10 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 1.221
Stream size : 12.6 GiB (97%)
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709
Color range : Full