10 great Premiere Pro CC tips for FCP 7 refugees

[Herb Sevush]

[Steve Connor] “I know, lot’s of learning required to find the “Import FCPXML” and “Export OMF” menu items, apparently Ripple training are going to make a series of tutorials”

Well if it’s that simple, then I stand corrected. OMF export is now solved for $199, when it happens.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[alban egger] “Sorry, but that is EXACTLY the strength of X.”

I agree it is a strength until such time that a paying job requires what Apple tossed out, and then it’s a weakness. Throwing out a lot of stuff from my storage area to make room is a strength until the IRS calls and asks me about some old quarterly forms, and then it doesn’t seem so smart. I prefer the Adobe and Avid way, where they can deliver anything that X can deliver while not throwing away past workflows. If you never need those workflows, then I understand why you don’t care.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Bill Davis]

[Walter Soyka] “Bill, can you walk me through how this works and what you mean by “connected to an on-line output file?””

My day before yesterday was all about this.

Music video in final approval stage with client and artist and record company. We sat down last Fri and made changes. From X I hit the Vimeo “send” button. It’s uploads to the service. I email them the link. Then Monday, a few small changes. From the same timeline, I hit SEND again, but this time, I just range select the part under discussion that they had a minor change to and directly email it to them from my Storyline. They call back that it’s perfect. So I hit the Vimeo feed Share again and replace the old one with the new one. Then Wed, they find something ELSE small to change. Repete the process. At the end of it all, what I have is a CURRENT file in my Vimeo Pro account that everyone around the world has access to with the proper password. For incremental changes, the file that I’m working on in X can email out small review files in one step. Vimeo lets me replace old versions with new ones as needed. X maintains all my current export account logins and passwords within the software. So it’s a single menu choice only.

The work on my desktop in X remains connected by simple clicks to agile deployment to my clients – as needed – and everytime I change anything, it’s a click or two to reflesh the Vimeo and/or YouTube “published” versions – or email out a review copy.

Couldn’t be simpler. AND if I’m working on something else when a simple change order comes in – I can just switch projects to get it done without having to close and open anything but the tab in the Project Library.

Couldn’t be much easier unless maybe they build a voice command front end on it.

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[Herb Sevush]

[Walter Soyka] “Bill, can you walk me through how this works and what you mean by “connected to an on-line output file?””

Walter –

You seem to be under the impression that there is something more than a simple one-button “publish to vimeo” button at work here, but there isn’t. There is no magical metadata connection. Whatever Bill’s doing can be done by anyone with any NLE, by exporting a file to their desktop and then posting to vimeo – X let’s Bill do that in one step instead of two and apparently it makes his day. Go figure.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Gary Huff]

[Bill Davis] “At the end of it all, what I have is a CURRENT file in my Vimeo Pro account that everyone around the world has access to with the proper password. For incremental changes, the file that I’m working on in X can email out small review files in one step. Vimeo lets me replace old versions with new ones as needed. X maintains all my current export account logins and passwords within the software. So it’s a single menu choice only.”

I’ve been doing this in Premiere for the last two years, sans export via the menu…but then I get greater control of what I want to export on a per-project basis, a tradeoff I like (I routinely have to export via Compressor anyway for a lot of what I do…I have deliverables based on an internal web interface that FCPX doesn’t have a listing for).

[Gary Huff]

[Herb Sevush] “There is no magical metadata connection.”

I have tried this actually. I used the “Send to Vimeo” feature thinking it would save time doing it through FCPX than the traditional way I usually did it through Premiere. Nope, same amount of time.

[Bill Davis]

Interesting. So you’re telling me you can upload any video or a part of any video from inside Premier without leaving the running software? Because that’s what X does. I don’t createa a disconnected file on the desktop, nor do I have to post process it in any way unless I choose to. Plus I get to continue working on my current projects or change and work on other ones WHILE my files are uploading to my service accounts or the versions are being emailed out.

I had no clue that Premier allowed this. Points to them then.

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[Brett Sherman]

FCP X has drop shadows? Honestly I never noticed. I’m too busy getting s**t done with it. I can say without hesitation, they haven’t slowed me down in the slightest.

[Brett Sherman]

[Andy Field] “Guys, Guys…..you love FCP X — great — but why does everything have to be disparaging of other options?”

I’m not sure anyone is being disparaging. But when you post 10 great Premiere tips on an FCP X or Not forum, I don’t think you should be surprised when people analyze that and compare it to FCP X – favorably or otherwise. I don’t see how anyone stepped over the line.

[Bill Davis]

[Herb Sevush] “Walter –

You seem to be under the impression that there is something more than a simple one-button “publish to vimeo” button at work here, but there isn’t. There is no magical metadata connection. Whatever Bill’s doing can be done by anyone with any NLE, by exporting a file to their desktop and then posting to vimeo – X let’s Bill do that in one step instead of two and apparently it makes his day. Go figure.”

Herb, don’t I recall that you’re the guy who was all bent out of shape because it took TWO separate keystroke operations rather than one – for some X operations? Or was that someone else?

Still, I remember that kind of thing as common complaints leveled at X in the early days – so it’s pretty amazing that when a competing program requires one to LEAVE the timeline entirely and go back to the desktop to accomplish something like sharing that even MSWord does from within the program – that should suddenly be considered “no big deal.”

But whatever.

Know someone who teaches video editing in elementary school, high school or college? Tell them to check out http://www.StartEditingNow.com – video editing curriculum complete with licensed practice content.