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Have you switched from Avid Media Composer to Adobe Premiere? Then you might be able to assist us.
We are two students working on an essay in which we do a usability test to find out what sort of problems may occur when Avid users sit down and use Adobe Premiere for the first time. Our focus is going to be on the basic editing functions. We are going to construct a test in which our subjects will be asked to perform a few simple tasks in order to complete a specific sequence.
If you have experience of making this switch, we would very much appreciate it if you could try and recall some of your first impressions of the interface (Adobe Premiere, that is) and whatever problems you may have encountered and post your thoughts as a response. As previously mentioned, we are mainly interested in the basic editing workflow (cutting, trimming, transitions and the like). We would be grateful for any input you can provide us with.
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I still use Avid on a daily basis working on reality TV, but I’ve started using Premiere for other projects.
I found the Avid keyboard setting in Premiere, and it was pretty much smooth sailing from there, as far as basic editing goes. I set my keyboard to mimic the way I set my Avid keys, and I was able to get pretty close. One thing that was missing was the “tops and tails” keys that Avid has, but that’s not a big deal.
It was a music video, so editorially it was a lot of overwrite edits and some slipping. I didn’t do any lifts or insert edits. I didn’t need to find the “trim mode” equivalent in Premiere, so I can’t speak to how that works.
I remember a dialog box popping up the first time I did a four-point edit – it asked me what the default action should be, and I specified “ignore out point on source side” or something to that effect.
Aside from the mechanics of editing, I really loved that I could work with my RED footage natively and the keying tool was great.
In summary – I was able to pick up Premiere CC, having never used it, and cut a music video without having to refer to the manual or the forums for any help. My muscle memory from Avid served me well in Premiere on this project.
NB – this was cutting in picture over a locked audio track, so there was a fair bit of basic edit functionality that I did not require.
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[Bill Dewald] “One thing that was missing was the “tops and tails” keys that Avid has, but that’s not a big deal.”
Hey Bill,
CS6 and above has tops and tails editing. Look for “Ripple Trim Next (Previous) Edit To Playhead” in the keyboard shortcut menu and map it as you wish.
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