Since Premiere Pro CS5 is a 64-bit application, this presents a bit of an issue for example, with the AVI container, a codec MUST have a 64-bit flavor in order for Premiere to be able to import, playback, and export to that codec. My guess on the ProRes 'hangs' would be due to the fact that ProRes is 32-bit and, as far as I'm aware, the QuickTime components that Adobe uses are 32-bit, as well. That's great to hear! I'm sure many AVCHD users will be glad to know that timecode is now available in a project it wasn't that way before, as I recall. I found this thread on DVInfo that suggests you might have some luck. The first step would be to import one of your AVCHD clips and make sure that timecode is actually preserved before beginning the transcoding process.ĮDIT: it appears that CS5 WILL read the timecode of the AVCHD files, so long as they are contained within their original folder structure (might actually have to be on the card where they were recorded). You could set the start timecode of each imported clip manually, but that could be tedious. This doesn't make for a good proxy workflow, obviously. However, even if this works, you might have bigger problems: last I had heard, Premiere does not read the timecode of AVCHD files, and instead resets the timecode of each imported clip to 00 00 00 00. well, it's not going to be anywhere else.

If it is, you can select it and then click the Codec Settings button to setup the codec particular to your export. After you select QuickTime under the Format dropdown, go to the Video tab, and click the Video Codec dropdown ProRes should be there.

ProRes will only be an encoding option if you select QuickTime as your format, and only if you're using Premiere on a Mac (which you are, I'm assuming).

Avchd collection to mp4