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With my new OMD EM1 I am also have made films. I noticed that the frame rate is 29 Frames per second. My old film camera works with 25 frames per second. I live in Netherlands and so work with pal. I always edit the movie in adobe premiere pro. With the new movie clips from the EM1 I still can make any good movie because all material should be rendered, making it all takes very long time and memory problems. Does anyone have good suggestions, so I can handle weather footage in adobe premiere pro. Thanks in advance for your contribution.

Gerard
 
ghv said:
With my new OMD EM1 I am also have made films. I noticed that the frame rate is 29 Frames per second. My old film camera works with 25 frames per second. I live in Netherlands and so work with pal. I always edit the movie in adobe premiere pro. With the new movie clips from the EM1 I still can make any good movie because all material should be rendered, making it all takes very long time and memory problems. Does anyone have good suggestions, so I can handle weather footage in adobe premiere pro. Thanks in advance for your contribution.

Gerard
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I am an absolute beginner with video (my wife/partner usually does that part) BUT one weakness of the otherwise very capable EM-1 is that it only does video at the nominally 30fps (which in your case was 29fps). Having lived in Europe - and like any sane person, much preferring the PAL standard, I can appreciate the headaches this is causing. So , unfortunately, you will likely have to continue the tedious conversion process.

Others here may know of a way to at least speed this up. (Maybe the easiest way would be to just find a good prce on a Panasonic GH2 oir somesuch.
 
Long story short - for the price of an MMF3 adapter you can get a Panny G3, load it with Vitaly Kiselev's firmware and dedicate it to your video needs. The E-M1 is not a video machine by any means, and it was never developed as such.
 
ghv said:
With my new OMD EM1 I am also have made films. I noticed that the frame rate is 29 Frames per second. My old film camera works with 25 frames per second. I live in Netherlands and so work with pal. I always edit the movie in adobe premiere pro. With the new movie clips from the EM1 I still can make any good movie because all material should be rendered, making it all takes very long time and memory problems. Does anyone have good suggestions, so I can handle weather footage in adobe premiere pro. Thanks in advance for your contribution.

Gerard
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I do make also video with olympus camera's. I don't change the speed. Every Hd ready video player will handle this 29,75 frames/s. On a Windows computer Windows mediaplayer has no problems with it. Rendering time in Premiere is mostly induced by the effects you are using, also is the memory problem. If you can use your graphic card for rendering it will do it quicker than without. A SSD as harddrive help too. If I use no video effects the rendering time is about as long as the real time of the video on my machine.

Premiere proCS6 is not bugfree. Use the latest updates. 16Gb memory will not be used as far as I have seen on my machine. Max 8,5 Gb. My latest montage (I did not make the recordings exept the sound) was made with a epl3 with 45/1.8, epm1with 50-200swd and a em5 with 12-50. The biggest problem was the difference in whitebalance between the cams. I could not get it right. Parts of an early excerpt of the video (resized to 1280x720)you can see here.


YouTube put the quality of the video heavy down.

The final version has fortunately become even better. The rendering was about 8 hours for 1.07h concert.

succes!
 
ghv said:
With my new OMD EM1 I am also have made films. I noticed that the frame rate is 29 Frames per second. My old film camera works with 25 frames per second. I live in Netherlands and so work with pal. I always edit the movie in adobe premiere pro. With the new movie clips from the EM1 I still can make any good movie because all material should be rendered, making it all takes very long time and memory problems. Does anyone have good suggestions, so I can handle weather footage in adobe premiere pro. Thanks in advance for your contribution.

Gerard
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Anyone who does video seriously would not use an em-1/-5!
 
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ghv said:
With my new OMD EM1 I am also have made films. I noticed that the frame rate is 29 Frames per second. My old film camera works with 25 frames per second. I live in Netherlands and so work with pal. I always edit the movie in adobe premiere pro. With the new movie clips from the EM1 I still can make any good movie because all material should be rendered, making it all takes very long time and memory problems. Does anyone have good suggestions, so I can handle weather footage in adobe premiere pro. Thanks in advance for your contribution.

Gerard
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Anyone who does video seriously would not use an em-1/-5!
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Yep what would you know :) anyone know that the best Film Camera is the one you have with you.

I have only used the EM-5 ones for filming, and that was when I was getting bored in a Hide.


Forgot to mention, I have no problem loading the files into premiere pro for editing. Works ok. (im in Europe)

//Steen

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dingenus said:
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I have only used the EM-5 ones for filming, and that was when I was getting bored in a Hide.


Thats a very nice video in my eyes!

Dingenus
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Thanks Dingenus

It can be used for video, it has lots of flaws, but for casual film shooting it works.

//Steen
 
erichK said:
erichK said:
... For most video uses it is much simpler to borrow or buy a small and relatively inexpensive dedicated camcorder, the entire ergonomics and control interface - and the sensor of which is designed for video.
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The one pressing reason is to do otherwise is allow the use of certain lenses (like my 150f2), but most of the time the fast, wide zoom range lenses on such camcorders are adequate, and also simpler and more versatile.
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have you seen the quality of video from a large sensor camera taken in low light? And the blurred background from an f1.7 lens? Hard to go back to a camcorder After that. Not to mention the convenience of carrying one camera, charging 1 spare battery, maintaining one set of SD cards instead of two. Of all these things. These reasons make it worthwhile to do my family videos with my GF1-20 mm even if it means having to put on my reading glasses and focus manually.

I don't know how bad th EM1 is for videos, but I cannot blame the OP door trying it.

Drusus
 
This is a gross statement. We do documentary and we use Em1 as well as other platforms that people like you will not call 'professional'. And the results are very professional. I's say you need to buy a better computer to do what you need...! We have no issues. And no other SDLR Camera has a better stabilization system.
 
CptRoger said:
This is a gross statement. We do documentary and we use Em1 as well as other platforms that people like you will not call 'professional'. And the results are very professional. I's say you need to buy a better computer to do what you need...! We have no issues. And no other SDLR Camera has a better stabilization system.
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Original post was from 2013.
 
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