Annoing things about PPro

[Kevin Monahan]

Hi Alex,
Let me see if I can help:

1. When you click on the Source Monitor to drag a clip to the Timeline it is automatically selected. I don’t experience a delay, so not sure why that is annoying.

2. Sorry the controls don’t feel right. In Premiere Pro CC, we have keyboard shortcuts to moving audio levels, maybe that would work better for you.

3. It doesn’t work like FCP. You can operate with a stereo clip in a single track, not two separate tracks. If that isn’t working for you, create a sequence with stereo tracks.

4. See 3. You are not using the right audio tracks.

5. Just press Caps Lock on your keyboard.

6. See if pressing Shift 5 will help. That opens the Effect Controls panel.

Check out this article. I think it might help: https://www.claygasbury.com/10-things-i-wish-i-knew-the-first-time-i-launched-premiere-pro-cs6-part-1/

Good luck,
Kevin

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[Larry Asbell]

If I may add:

3 – It’s recommended, rather than stereo tracks use Standard tracks (the default) They work as stereo or mono. Best to convert your Stereo Track to Dual Mono before you cut them in if you want to mix the tracks separately.

5 – I didn’t find it at first either but there is a Small Caps check box on the Title Properties panel on the right. Then there’s a slider to adjust the size of the small caps. At 100% it turns lower case text into All Caps.

[Lance Bachelder]

2 – The audio controls on the timeline are disproportionate, meaning that when I drag the audio line almost all the way to the bottom is -20db from there just a tiny move is all the way down or -48db

One thing I’d like to see with the audio tracks is waveforms that update based on level like FCPX and Sony Vegas.

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1680680/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

[Alex Udell]

Lance: so you want to see output transformations of the waveform, as opposed to just in the input waveform?

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX

[Elin Grome]

Hi alex – if its any help ive mapped keyboard shortcuts which allow me to select the project window, navigate to clips, open clip in source and move from source to timeline – makes life easier…

It’s all the those pesky details :p

[Lance Bachelder]

I want live updates of the waveform as I raise or lower levels just FCPX or Sony Vegas – don’t need them , just spoiled by 12 years with Vegas.

But I do like Premiere CC and using it for all my recent work.

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1680680/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

[Alex Rod]

1) this doesn’t work. Try it. Put a clip on the source window, then select the timeline, then try to just drag what’s on the source window to the timeline. – I edit 75% with shortcuts, but still, I also drag and drop.

2) it’s not that they don’t feel right, it’s that they are actually disproportionate. This makes it very hard to be accurate. There are other ways, but the idea (to me) is to be able to edit fast…among the other obvious advanteges.

3) ah…I am still a little confused. When I get an audio clip where the left channel as NAT sound and the right channel the lavalier sound, I’d like to be able to separate it them to delete the NAT channel. Also, when I have clip with two channels, I’d like to be able to adjust the audio of both simultaneously.

5) Larry Asbell got this one. Thank you. There is a check button on the tittle tool that allows you to make them all caps and still have the appropriate size for the actual capitalized letters. This is very handy.

6) that only selects the effects control, but it does’t expand the motion tab within the effect controls.

thank you soo much for your help. Hopefully you understand what I mean.

Again, thanks!

Overall I am in love with ppro and aside from the little annoying things, I am almost 100% up to speed. 🙂

[Alex Rod]

3) this is how I used to do it in final cut. It was extremely simple. Can you recommend a quick way to do this in ppro?

5) perfect!!! thank you!

[Alex Rod]

I’ve mapped the most useful tools already, but I think doing deeper customization is not a bad idea. thanks

[Matt Galuszewski]

1) this doesn’t work. Try it. Put a clip on the source window, then select the timeline, then try to just drag what’s on the source window to the timeline. – I edit 75% with shortcuts, but still, I also drag and drop.

It works for me. I’m on a Mac with Premiere CC