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From Final Cut Pro to Premiere?
We are considering to enter into the Adobe world with 5-10 new iMacs as its not possible to buy new software license of FCP7.
Anyone have any experience with this transition? Is Premiere a good alternative? Any disadvantages? Issues/challenges you have met? Any reason not to do it? Is it hard to learn for an FCP editor?
Also- what kind of server requirements is needed to be able to work together on a project with Premiere Pro?
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it’s a pretty easy transition – especially with CS6 –
Premiere has a set of keyboard shortcuts that match FCP 7’s so it will feel like you are editing in FCP – there are a number of differences — the list of plugins and filters aren’t as robust..and little things like transfer modes at first look like they aren’t there – but in fact are a filter you add in with one of the Keying effects.
All in all it’s faster – will take virtually any codec you throw in the timeline and play in real time without rendering — you can have all red render bars and it will still play and edit…huge advantage.
Downside is even you rendered as you go along – it doesn’t seem to care about that on final render – it re-renders everything into the export codec you chose — however you can offload it all to the Adobe Media manager and it will work in the background while you continue to edit something else.
The Adobe folks are working hard to add things FCP editors want so go to their suggestion page – they are listening.
Andy Field
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Thanks! Sounds really promising then.
Do you know how it works with sending your projects for grading in DaVinci Resolve?
And can you do mastering to XDCAM through USB deck/export or on SDI output?
Does it have multiclip support?
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One of the neat things I tried yesterday was to open a project I did in FCP 7 and without selecting any timelines (sequences) or bins, chose export XML. I opened the XML in Premiere CS6 and in a few minutes the whole project showed up in Premiere the way it was organized in FCP. All the folders, subfolders, bins, sequences, etc.
Now the only annoying problem was some of the audio levels in a sequence I opened were correct and other whole tracks were silent. I had to raise the levels up to hear them. I don’t know why this happened.
Also, I haven’t figured out the equivalent of [ + which raises the audio +3 dB in FCP. I can select and highlight all the clips in a track in FCP and hit [+ to raise all the clips +3 dB or CMD+ to raise 1 dB. You can’t seem to do that in Premiere.
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Exactly. This is a huge productivity loss for me and a reason I had to leave Premiere on this last job. Also, rubber banding in the timeline is difficult, at best. I use a wacom tablet and the reaction when trying to drag or add keyframes is very odd. It works great in FCP.
Reason I’m saying this is because I think it’s a real reason to consider when plotting a move over to Premiere for a job.
Michael Garber
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[Andy Field] “and little things like transfer modes at first look like they aren’t there – but in fact are a filter you add in with one of the Keying effects.”
We call them Blending Modes. They are actually built in to every clip in the Effect Controls tab under Opacity. They aren’t filters at all.
More info here: https://help.adobe.com/en_US/premierepro/cs/using/WSa41b87baf39dd9b07e3480c31221838a260-8000.html
You can send your Premiere Pro timelines to Resolve via XML. Strip out any Premiere Pro effects first, though.
We don’t have multiclips, per se. We just use nested sequences. More info here: https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/editing-multi-camera-sequences1.html
Premiere Pro CS6 supports mastering to optical disk via FireWire or USB 2.0. More info here: https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/products/premiere/cs6/pdfs/adobe-premiere-pro-cs6-sony-xd-cam.pdf
Kevin Monahan
Sr. Content and Community Lead
Adobe After Effects
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Kevin,
One of our editors uses a Wacom tablet for all of her editing. One thing that drives her nuts is to not be able to add and move keyframe points in her audio levels with her pen. Apparently it’s a known issue.
https://vimeo.com/46319803
Are there any workarounds for it? Timeline on a bug fix?Thanks in advance!
fond regards,
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Is there any adobe forum (not finding one) or address to send feedback on what an FCP7 user now turned PPro CS6 user would like to see in future PPro software additions/upgrades
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