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From FCP to PP: what i miss…
From about a week i’m evaluating alternatives to my (loved but dead) Final Cut Pro.
I’ve extensively tested Premiere Pro CS5.5 and these are my considerations on what i miss and what i’ve gained.GAINED: Direct editing, without transcoding, of almost every format
MISS: FCP seems to be more stable (but this should depend on my configuration)
GAINED: Perfect integration with AE and PS
MISS (Feature request): Effect applied to master clips. In FCP i can apply motion and effects directly to a master clip (video clip, sequence,…) and then use the effected clip in the viewer. Every edit i do with that master clip as source maintain the effects. This is very useful when you have,for example,an entire tape as master clip and want to apply an effect to every clip you edit from that clip, without using copy/paste attributes. In FCP the edited clips become independent from the master clip, is should be useful to create a sort of hierarchy so that you can modify a filter on the master clip and the modification automatically copy to all the “child” clip on the timeline.
MISS: more precise copy/paste/delete attributes. i should be free to paste or remove only specific effects and not “all or nothing”.
MISS: better quality motion scale in realtime playback on FCP
MISS: better integration of third-part editing cards (Aja, BMD,…). In FCP you have only to select to output video out to the card or not, in a normal sequence. In PPro you have to use a specific editing mode, you are unable to disable the output for a moment and so on.
There are a lot more things i’ve gained using PP, but i think it’s more usefull, for the moment, to only underline what i missed, with the hope that “someone” is listening.
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Alessandro Cofanelli
Top Service Audiovisivi
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[Alessandro Cofanelli] “MISS: better quality motion scale in realtime playback on FCP
MISS: better integration of third-part editing cards (Aja, BMD,…). In FCP you have only to select to output video out to the card or not, in a normal sequence. In PPro you have to use a specific editing mode, you are unable to disable the output for a moment and so on.”
I can see how you’re missing all of the features you list except the two above.
Regarding “better quality motion scale in realtime playback” have you turned on scale to frame size? It’s in the context menu for each clip or as a general preference. Unless your system or graphics card is woefully inadequate that option makes move and scale playback butter smooth, even with 5k stills.
As for the 3rd party sequence settings for video out: I’ve never found that to be particularly inhibiting. The Mercury Playback Engine and all codecs work in my Matrox timelines. And why would you want to turn video out momentarily off?
David
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Hello Alessandro,
MISS: more precise copy/paste/delete attributes. i should be free to paste or remove only specific effects and not “all or nothing”.
You can select each and any parameter, keyframe or what ever value from a clip to another. Just mark that specific value/s and copy/paste.
The “effects to a master clip” could be on the list for future PP features^^
But if you need to use this workflow you can create a sequence with the whole clip. Do your effects there. Open this sequence in the source monitor and make your in/out from there to your editing sequence.A better integration of third-part editing cards (Aja, BMD,…) is on my wish list, too.
LG, Robert
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alessandro,
[Alessandro Cofanelli] “MISS: better quality motion scale in realtime playback on FCP”
PP is far better, you can bezier control x and y scale and position separately, copy paste keyframes etc…
[Alessandro Cofanelli] “more precise copy/paste/delete attributes. “
select a clip, go to effects control panel, copy attributes you want, select target clips, paste.
cheers
mark
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