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10 great Premiere Pro CC tips for FCP 7 refugees
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Chris, doesn’t it depend on the situation?
For example, I’m working on a doc right now. I have quite a few academics in it. As I cut their sections, I send them youtube unlisted links for their approval. They love it. It’s a simple one click on their end and they can see it anywhere they have their smart phone.
the same goes for some of the other folks that are in my doc that are elderly. They would be lost with dropbox and don’t even have ftp, but they can click on that single link with no problem and also forward the email to their family members so they can all enjoy it together.
Now this is different than trying to send someone a finished file, but so much of what I send is not the finished file. I send more stuff to get it approved or just to show somebody something they may like than anything else. You are most likely only going to send the finished file once. Leading up to that you may send a bunch of files depending on how picky they are : )
I save time not waiting for the file to export and I like that.
Many corporate clients are not that tech savvy. They love that one click link on their end. They can see what I’m cutting on the golf course while they are waiting for the group ahead of them to putt out.
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Bret,
I agree a lot of that stuff is useful, and I miss it in Premiere 6, but a few of the things you listed are actually there:
– Snapping razor tool (the visualization of it could be better)
– Linked selection (though you can’t toggle it globally, which is a pain – I just leave it on and hold Option when I need to toggle it off)
– Paste attributes (though with less granularity than FCP7)
– Copy of a range – there’s a way to do this using lift ( ; ), which puts the range from In to Out on the clipboard, and undo, which heals the extraction, but leaves the copied range on the clipboard. It’s pretty easy.
– Marker duration
– Switch between video and audio waveforms in source monitor – you need to set up keys for this
– Toggle audio scrubbing on/off – you need to set up a key for this as well -
[tony west] “Chris, doesn’t it depend on the situation?”
Yes, of course it does. I think that’s actually what I’m arguing. There are a whole variety of services available beyond the few that Apple has made deals with to include in X. And that what Apple has done is nothing more than create an exclusive link to those few companies. If you use them, great! But if you don’t use them, and use something else, it ain’t a particularly significant difference. And if you use some other NLE and want to use the services that Apple has links to, its only a couple of extra steps to use those services.
[tony west] “I save time not waiting for the file to export and I like that.”
But, that’s an illusion. A unique file HAS to be rendered. That step may be invisible to you, but it is still happening. Extremely tight integration could allow for some sort of sequential render that could upload the file while it was compiling, but given the disorganized nature of TCP/IP networks, I’m a little uncertain that that would be of much value.
What you are gaining, I believe, is that you are exporting a file, and that file is being automatically sent when it is finished. And, it IS certainly something that you don’t have to be between the output and the send to drag and drop. So THAT is the time you are not wasting. Of course, you can use automation to set something like that up yourself, if you like.
[tony west] “Many corporate clients are not that tech savvy. They love that one click link on their end. They can see what I’m cutting on the golf course while they are waiting for the group ahead of them to putt out.”
Yes. That’s terrific. And, you can do that with a zillion other services beyond those that Apple has made deals with.
I have no problem at all with Apple making the deals, or with people using the provided shares. It’s a nice convenience. I do have a problem when people make claims that the sponsored batch files that are built into X represent a mind-bending culture shift and a competitor-shattering new age in editorial.
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[Stew Fyfe] “- Linked selection (though you can’t toggle it globally, which is a pain – I just leave it on and hold Option when I need to toggle it off)”
Yeah! I’d like to see that changed in Pr, as well.
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[David Eaks] “A couple days ago the Terence and Philip show did a short episode about Adobe CC, if anyone is interested-
https://www.theterenceandphilipshow.com
“However much I learn, I am always vaguely disappointed that the link doesn’t take me to the gaseous Canadian cartoon Comedians.
Good discussion, though.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “CC ppro suite you walk into, you just sign in, and it loads all your app specific customisations keyboard shortcuts, screen layouts – that’s quite a nice feature”
That’s pretty cool.
What about Adobe Anywhere? Anyone know if its underneath-the-hood is FTP?
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[Chris Harlan] “Good discussion, though.”
Except for the part where they get the whole “saving to CS6” feature wrong, intimating that it works for more than AE. This is how the misinformation begins.
and also the fact that they sound like Adobe salespeople.
other than that, good discussion.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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That’s probably the number one annoyance for me, in terms of basic, cut to cut editing tasks. Well, that and the whole patching system (though I’ve got some keys set up to help with that as well.)
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[Stew Fyfe] “That’s probably the number one annoyance for me, in terms of basic, cut to cut editing tasks. Well, that and the whole patching system (though I’ve got some keys set up to help with that as well.)
“Oh yeah. Me too. I also find the patching a little uncomfortable. I don’t quite have down yet, the way I do with Avid, and I wish it were more visible, though that may be that I haven’t quite worked out a color scheme yet.
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[Herb Sevush] “Except for the part where they get the whole “saving to CS6” feature wrong, intimating that it works for more than AE. This is how the misinformation begins.
“Ah! I’ve got that wrong, too. I thought it worked that way for Pr, as well. Bummer.
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