This may be somewhat less useful for FCP X users where FCP X will create proxy files on ingest but certainly is useful for Adobe PremierePro users until Adobe releases the promised update which supports proxy creation at ingest. A useful workflow here is to create proxy files while also creating full-resolution files. This final option really helps declutter a timeline.Īnother very useful feature is multiple batch creation. That edited Metadata obviously will export with the clip.Īn Additional Options palette allows LUT application, framerate adjustment, resizing, advanced H.264 configuration and removal of unused audio tracks. The current version of EditReady allows viewing and editing of Metadata including automatic file renaming. Divergent Media does make speed claims on its website. I have not personally done a speed comparison with other competing products I just offer the observation that it is fast.
From the UI, select the clips to be manipulated, choose a codec or wrapper, select a destination and then let EditReady do its work. The program reads any MXF, MTS, M2T or MOV wrapped file. It quickly recognizes those media files and lets you get right to work. Other possibilities include Apple Compressor, Adobe Media Encoder, Episode, Squeeze, FFmpeg and other entries.ĮditReady provides one of the simplest and fastest solutions to the mixed format dilemma.ĮditReady presents the user with a drop and drag interface and can even find files within folders.
We have already looked at other software solutions beyond the NLE including the Sony Catalyst Suite and the beta of the forthcoming Kyno. And your choices dealing with this footage is either to rewrap/transcode or let your NLE deal with it. Where shoots have used a menagerie of cameras, editors are confronted with a range of wrappers and codecs. There are a number of possible workflows to rewrap and transcode the myriad of formats that we encounter. In this review, I’ll take a look at EditReady to be followed by ScopeBox in a subsequent article.
mov wrappers or into ProRes or DNxHD codecs.ĮditReady and ScopeBox constitute Divergent’s more up to date workflows. Ned Soltz takes a look at Divergent’s EditReady, a transcoding tool that for $49.99 deserves a place in many people’s toolboxes.ĭivergent Media has been around at least 10 years creating Mac applications for transcoding and evaluating footage.Īmong its earliest products was ClipWrap, a utility still being sold, which rewrapped or transcoded footage in HDV and AVCHD (the dreaded. $49.99 could sort out many of your transcoding needs