.DIF -> Premiere Pro?

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April 23, 2004 - 07:59
TWulfA
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Since driver support for DV.NOW.AV is now pretty much dead I'm looking for alternative ways to move .DIFs into PremPro.

It looks like PremPro only natively supports about 4 cards (2 canopus, 2 matrox) total so far, so I'm sure that other people are somehow wanting to get digital video into PremPro too.

Has anyone found any combination of 3rd party soft and plugins that may get your raw .dif data into a PremPro readable form? (Probably an external encoder and a MPEG2 plugin... been searching but coming up short...)

Thanks for reading.

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April 23, 2004 - 11:17
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dpalomaki
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Pinnacle has offered an upgrade discount to move from DV.now AV family to their Liquid Edition. It can read DV.nows DIF format without problem. (LE is based on a higher end FAST (the developeer of the DV.now line) product.

I understand that Premiere Pro is a bit of a learning cruve from Premiere 6.5, so the transition LE may not be all that bad. However, you might try using Premiere 6.5 and converting the files of intrest to to AVI. That might work for Premiere Pro. Also, Premier Pro requires Win XP, in case you are using Win2K now.

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April 23, 2004 - 21:00
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TWulfA
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Ulead's MediaStudio7 may also read .difs...

Currently looking into the new Mainconcept MPEG Pro plugin (for Adobe). Should allow MPEG2 imports... just gotta get DIFs into MPEG2 somehow (with minimal conversion loss of course HAHA).

Thanks for the reply, didn't know Pinnacle was offering a deal, nice of 'em.

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April 24, 2004 - 17:22
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TWulfA
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Ok, to move .dif files into Adobe Premiere Pro...

Get the Mainconcept Encoder (v1.4.2).
Get the Mainconcept MPEG Pro plugin (v1.0).

The encoder will change your dif into an mpeg2 that the plugin now allows Premiere Pro to read. It's an extra step in the process, but it doesn't take that long and there's very little quality loss.

Firestore DV Standards Converter will also convert difs to a PremPro "readable" format (though it converts to AVI only I think.)

I've found nothing else that successfully works with difs. One that claims to work with them, DV Converter, simply sucks and doesn't (at least for Dv.Now.Av), save your time for looking into something else.

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