Premiere Workflow With Lightroom

I have Adobe Premiere CS6 and Lightroom 4.1. I like both. But I'd like to figure out a better workflow for copying my AVCHD video files (Panasonic GH2) from SD cards to my computer and managing them.
Even though I've been using PhotoShop for years, I now do almost all of my still image post processing in Lightroom.   While it seems to have some new video editing features, it's still seems like it's focused on the traditional, photography, single-file paradigm - each file is a distinct piece of art that has little or no relationship with other files taken at the same time.
Obviously this is different from video where each piece of art is a combination of multiple media types (e.g. video, audio, stills, etc.) and most of the time there are multiple instances of each media type, all of which need to be combined into seamless end result.   Premiere does a great job of this. However...
It's the media import and management aspect that I'm unhappy with. Prelude is an option, but it seems to have some media management features but not as robust as Lightroom.   In addition, the position of Prelude in the overall video creation workflow is unclear to me.
So I'm perplexed. I'd like to manage all of my media in a single place.   Even though this post is about Premiere, I spend at least as much time working on stills as video. So a single media management tool (like lightroom) is my goal.   Unfortunately the overall Adobe management solution is still not as integrated as I'd like.   So...
How do you manage you media?   How do you deal with the first stages of your workflow starting with the capture tool (camera, sound recorder, etc.) media card?   What tools do you prefer?
Thanks in advance for any feedback.
Regards,
Dan.
p.s. I'm an amateur in this. I've been taking pics for 58 years (since I was 7), but I'm not a pro.   So my needs probably won't match a pro's needs.

IMO...
Photoshop and Premiere, and several other Adobe products are essentially products with a legacy approach - incredibly powerful tools for single purpose.   Historically, products and people were pretty much single purporse...
Photoshop did photography stuff and Premiere did video stuff.   Photographers and video guys (and ladies) were two different groups with two different languages. And there are also audio guys who did audio stuff, writing guys who did writing stuff, drawing guys who did drawing stuff, and web guys who did web stuff.
At the Pro level this is still true. But for many Pros and most amateurs, this single-purpose world doesn't exist exist any more. We wear multiple hats.   The tools (like the GH2) capture mutiple types of media.   The GH3 will extend this. Portable audio mini-recorders like the Zoom H1 extend it further. Powerful, easy to use script-writing tools like Celtx extend it further.   And then we have the internet...
I'm a professional software developer. I don't do web pages professionally, but I've created a few, including a weather website (in progress) for Bellevue, Washington. Web pages use multiple types of media. It's normal to see a website with text, still images, video, audio, drawings and combinations of the three.
So how do you manage all this stuff? Not very well, IMO. Adobe products don't do well here...
Lightroom comes the closest because it stores metadata externally in a database. For example you can apply metadata to .MTS files (try that in Bridge).   And you can group and stack files. BUT... It doesn't manage a very wide array media - just photos and videos.   And you can't create a stack of clips and send it to Premiere.
Bridge seems to work with well with certain types of media only. Try adding a keyword to a .MTS file.   And it seems to be Photoshop-centric.   Many of the Bridge features seem to be nothing more than a prettier interface to standard Windows (Mac?) features.   Lightroom easily does most of what Bridge does plus a whole lot more.
As I wrote above, I just don't get Prelude. It's UI is kinda/sorta Adobe-like, but uses unique terms like "ingest" (sounds like a bodily function).   What's worse is that it's media management and editing features are poor.   I.e. I don't see any added value over just using Premiere.
IMO, Adobe should extend Lightroom to be the entry point for all media-related products of any type.   It should have the ability to import, preview, and manage any type of file photos, videos, audio, text files, Word docs, Celtx files, etc.   For photos, videos, and audio, it should have modules that can provide at least some minimal editing features.   And most importantly...
To the greatest extent possible, it should have the ability to send media and other files to other applications for editing, and then manage the modified file that is returned. It's probably not feasible to do this with all apps, but it should be able to send files to apps like Premiere, Premiere Elements, Photoshop, Audition, and Soundbooth.
OK... /Rant = OFF.
Thanks,
Dan.

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14. Once my photos look the way I want, I then export them to JPEG. I have set up a Photoshop droplet for Lightroom that will then do all my sharpening after export.
That's it! I know it sounds like a lot of steps, but once you've done it a couple of times it goes by really quick. I'm really loving most things about Lightroom in terms of its cataloging and export options. But the image quality of the Lightroom raw conversions just isn't there yet. I've found by integrating both Capture NX and Lightroom I can get top quality results while still gaining advantage of Lightroom's many nice features. It took me a few days of exploration and experimentation to nail down the optimal workflow for my needs. Hopefully this will help some others out and maybe give them some ideas of their own toward a better workflow.
Please feel free to share your thoughts or own experience on all of this.
Thanks to Tony Long for his suggestion in this thread, which caused me to go on a search for the optimal Lightroom/Capture workflow: http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?7@@.3bc719df/3
If you are interested in taking a look at the final output of the workflow listed above, please look here: http://photos.unsavory.com/p634883589
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Robert.....
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Functionality wise, I am ready to start using this - it's the initial stuff regarding my workflow that I am curious about!
Do you find this as a complement or replacement to Adobe PSE? Maybe I am used to 'opening a file' or doing the catalog in Adobe PSE that is throwing me off as I convert to a new process! Although, I didn't really use it for organization, just minor PP.
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I'm sure other people will be able to provide more in-depth answers to some of your questions, as I have little experience of Canon raw file formats or PSE. However, I'd like to offer you a couple of suggestions regarding your workflow.
1. The FIRST thing you should do after you download the files onto your laptop is to make the backups. Do this here and now, not later. If you don't, you only have one copy of your precious photos. If something goes wrong, you're going to kick yourself if you don't have a backup. Make sure you have your external backup at this stage too, if your laptop drive fails, then your backup is not much good to you if it's on the same drive.
2. Personally, before I import the photos into LR, I do a quick cull to get rid of what is obviously junk, ie. out of focus/unnecessary shots/etc. RAW files take up a lot of space and the more of them I import into LR, the slower it will be. That isn't to say I ONLY import the ones I am going to work with, rather, I DON'T import the ones I'm NOT actually going to keep and store. I do import photos that I eventually don't work with but I keep some anyway because at some point in the future I may come back to them for whatever reason.
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I looked at this a while back with Lightroom 4.1 and believe the following to be the same in Lightroom 5. Photoshop Elements and Lightroom combo in this context is not the same as Premiere Elements and Lightroom combo. I will post an exerpt of my work but the answer that I found was to go from Lightroom to folder on computer hard drive and then import the supported media on the hard drive from that folder into Premiere Elements with Premiere Elements' Add Media/Files and Folders.
Please check out post 6 which reports on my look at Premiere Elements and Lightroom 4.1.
http://www.elementsvillage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72137
I no longer visit that forum, so, if you have any questions about what I wrote in that thread, please ask me here at the Adobe Premiere Elements Forum.
You might consider posting your question in the Lightroom forum also.
http://forums.adobe.com/community/lightroom
Please review.
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Ikegami GFCam and Premiere Workflow

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I am new to Premiere, but versed in Avid and FCP. Does anyone have suggestions for the best workflow with an Ikegami GFCam HDS-V10 that records to a GFPak? I believe the mxf files produced by the GFCam are most similar to XDCAM. In terms of our Avid workflow (I have yet to tackle this task with FCP) we must transcode each GFPak clip that is imported to Avid and moved to the storage drive. Considering the XDCAM similarities, can I expect the mxf files to be received natively?
For our P2 camera clips, I am simply working from the MXF files which are pulled from the cards to the storage drive before importation into Avid. If there is a better workflow for this too, please let me know, but based on the small bit of research I've done in teh 2 hours I've had my hands on the new software and computer today that hte latter method is common place because the mxf files are native to Premiere. Can a simliar approach be used for the GFPak clips?
Otherwise, the method I'm thinkign would be to import the mxf files from the GFPak into AME (this is Adobe Media Encoder correct? just making sure I've got my acronyms right as I dive into Premiere forums/discussions) and convert to another format which might be more compatible/efficient to work with in Premiere. Am I headed in the right direction? Any suggestions for optimal codecs to transfer to?
It seems the Ikegami shooter is few and far between, so any helpful suggestions will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Lindsay

Just in case anyone's curious, I found a solution to the Ikegami import problem. It requries the plug-in at the link below. It's a little bit pricey, but seems to be the only option out there.
http://www.mainconcept.com/products/apps-plug-ins/plug-ins-for-adobe/codec-suite.html
Among other things I attempted, which all failed, was to pass it through Media Encoder first, but neither AME or PP had hte capacity to link the audio and video mxf files stored on the GFPak.
The plug-in allows PP to do so, and media may be imported using the Media Browser. While PP links the audio and video it does not hide the file structure like it does with P2, just giving you a thumbnail image. You need to be sure to pull your clips from the 'Video' folder. The audio will come right along with upon import, have no fear!
Happy to say I only really struggled with this for a solid day with the help of my IT staff . I thought it would have taken much longer to find a solution.
Lindsay

Will Photoshop Touch work with Lightroom?

I have read that Photoshop Touch for the iPad will work with Adobe CS5. Will it also work with Lightroom? Being able to easiy import photos etc.? thanks,

Hi Evertsa,
Sorry for the delay. There is a plug-in for Photoshop that allows you to import Photoshop Touch project files into Photoshop CS5 on a computer by transferring the file through a the Creative Cloud website (https://creative.adobe.com/) and importing with a special plug-in. If you sent out jpeg copy of a project from within PS Touch to somewhere you could import it on a computer into your Lightroom catalog that would work (via email would be the easiest), but its not natively setup to work with Lightroom.
Check out this doc that describes the workflow with Photoshop CS5.
http://forums.adobe.com/docs/DOC-1336
Hope that helps,
-Dave

Much faster SpeedGrade workflow with new 7.1 update

Thanks Adobe team, with this new upgrade, it is much easier to open Premiere Pro timelines in SpeedGrade and get started.
Ever since SpeedGrade came out, I always considered it as a great tool for the future, but never felt it was "ready" until this new 7.1 upgrade. It has always been a very powerful colour grading tool, but you had to convert your video files which would take forever on my computer. I tried converting a 2 minute video in the beginning, and it gave me an 8 hour estimate, so I just clicked cancelled.
Thankfully Adobe fixed that, and you can now natively open Adobe Premiere Pro timelines right into Adobe SpeedGrade, and skip the conversion. It now takes a few seconds to open a timeline in SpeedGrade, and about 2 seconds to save the results once you're done. After that, you're all set to open Adobe Premiere and compose the output of your video.
This gives you quick and easy access to a very powerful color correction tool, and is included in the Adobe Creative Cloud membership.
In this video, I show the new and improved workflow for Adobe SpeedGrade which now allows you to very quickly color grade your projects to improve the colours.
http://www.studiojpic.com/adobe-speedgrade-cc-7-1-new-and-improved-workflow-with-october-2 013-update/

Yeah, I'm just going to go ahead and agree with you guys on this.
Super easy workflow. No workarounds or anything. And you don't have to have a ridiculously spec'd system to playback your footage! It almost feels like I'm cheating.
Don't get me wrong, there are still a ton of things I have on the wishlist (curves, interface options, better scopes, better tracking for masks), but this was the HUGE number one item. I'm sure everything else will improve in time. It's just great to see that Patrick and his team are working hard to make these improvements for all of us.

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