Export to Adobe Premiere Pro

Silverstack can create XML or ALE files to transfer clips and their metadata to Adobe Premiere Pro. To follow this tutorial, you need some basic knowledge about the transcoding preset panel, transcoding workflows and the export features.

1. XML Workflow
2. ALE workflow

1. XML workflow#

1.1 Creating an XML file#

In general, you can create XML files for Adobe Premiere Pro in two ways:

• Manually export metadata via the dedicated exporter without creating transcodes
• Automatically create XML files during transcoding by setting the target application accordingly (Silverstack Lab only)

The configuration steps are the same for both options, so the task is explained using the dedicated exporter. Ensure you have some footage in your library to work with, select a bin, click the Export button and select the Adobe Premiere Pro exporter. In the resource selection step, select all the clips that should be covered by the XML file and click Continue . The preconfigured options should already suit your needs but feel free to adapt them as you need. The options are explained in detail in our Adobe Premiere Pro exporter article.

Finally, save the XML file at a location where you can retrieve it easily for import in Adobe Premiere Pro.

1.2 Creating synced sequences#

Silverstack can create sequences with correctly aligned video and audio tracks (synced from external sound). This feature helps to implement workflows where audio clips are not available before transcoding and need to be synced at the end of the production day. Right after automatic audio sync, the XML can be exported and provides synced sequences without transcoding again. Bringing camera native ProRes files with synced external audio from Silverstack into editorial, would be another use case.

By enabling the checkbox “Include audio synced sequences and referenced audio clips”, the synced sequences become part of the XML and will be available in Adobe Premiere Pro after import as follows:

• One bin containing all the OCF clips
• One bin containing all the synced (external) audio clips
• One bin named “Synced Clips Sequences” containing the sequences

1.3 Importing the XML#

Open Adobe Premiere Pro and simply drag & drop the previously saved XML file into Premiere Pro’s project panel. Alternatively, you can import the XML file via the file menu. All clips including metadata will be available as described above.

2. ALE workflow#

Adobe Premiere Pro accepts ALE files which can be exported in Silverstack using the Avid Media Composer ALE exporter including a hidden setting:

1. Close Silverstack
2. Open the Terminal
3. Enter the following line depending on your installed Silverstack version:
   1. Silverstack Lab: defaults write com.pomfort.SilverstackLab9 forcePremiereALEHeader -bool YES
   2. Silverstack: defaults write com.pomfort.Silverstack9 forcePremiereALEHeader -bool YES
4. Open Silverstack again
5. If you want to disable the behaviour again, simply replace “YES” with “NO”

You can now export an ALE the usual way, drag & drop the file into Adobe Premiere Pro, and it will be recognised. Via a link operation the clips can be relinked to make them online again.