DPX Files, Exporting DPX

I am using the trial version of Premiere Pro CC, and I'd like to put in a suggestion for a new feature for the program. I am importing DPX files (Cineon type) that were scanned on a film scanner for movie film, and Premiere Pro does not currently allow custom frame rates for importing. It only wants to do set rates and not a specified number of your choice. I have Super 8 which needs an 18 fps rate, and with Premiere Pro- you can only set it to 15 or 24. My only solution is to use After Effects, import in that, and the save the file to import back into Premiere. This seems like such a run around and forces me to use another programme just to do one thing with it. Premiere Pro should allow this option, as it has that feature in another of its programs.
Also since 4K video is becoming more popular, Premiere Pro should allow to save to a UHD file in a compressed format like ProRes4444 or MPEG 4 in 4K. 4K Blu rays will be available by the end of this year, so they should incorporate this option into the next software fix. My DPX files were scanned at 5K specifically to downrez to 4K video, and Premiere does not have an option for me to do that in a compressed video format. So please make this update available soon. For now- I cannot use Premiere Pro as is to finish my work, because it does not give me an output option I need.

Look in the "Manual" thingy, under "Configuring the Setup Room". In "Project Settings", there is a dialogue "Render File Type" and you will be able to choose dpx/cineon and a scaling range -- probably video for what you're doing. But take your pick:
• Video (64 Black - 940 White : Linear): The minimum and maximum values of 0 and 100
percent in Color’s scopes correspond to the digital values of 64 and 940 in rendered
DPX files. Super-white values above 100, if present in Color, are preserved using this
format.
• Linear (0 Black - 1023 White): The minimum and maximum values of 0 and 100 percent
in Color’s scopes correspond to the digital values of 0 and 1023 in rendered DPX files.
Super-white values, if present in Color, are clipped using this format when rendering
DPX files.
jPo

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