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Coming from FCP, what are the Premiere equivalents??
Alright, I got a cam where Premiere plays nicely with the footage it shoots! (no transcoding) so… now I wanna take the time to learn it.
Can the community help me with the laundry list of things (I’ve been kind of working a little, then journaling my issues…)
ONE) Renaming the actual files in the Finder via the NLE
I often rename imported clips in the bin and then choose Mark > Modify and Rename File to Match ClipHow in Premiere?
TWO (BIG topic… sorry if redundant but read through… ) SPLITTING STEREO AUDIO FOR MIXING CONTROL OVER BOTH CHANNELS
In FCP, I often drag a clips to the timeline, select it (especially selecting the stereo audio channels) and using Option-L to split the linking of the two channels of audio.
Great for recording two separate sources (boom on cha. 1 and Room mic on Cha 2) and THEN getting to control the mix of the two.But in Premiere, the best way I’ve hear thus far is to duplicate the stereo track into ANOTHER stereo track, adding the Audio Effects, “FILL RIGHT,” and “FILL LEFT”
– this method loses the linkage of the duplicated track – edits become clunky— **Now I have an update on this.** I was working on a project and I don’t know WHAT I did to get it to act EXACTLY how I wanted it, but the clips in the timeline actually reflected almost exactly what I was familiar with in FCP; there was a track of video and TWO “mono” channels stacked and the clip’s A/V data was all linked for the three tracks. I could actually tell that the two audio tracks were MONO due to the small one-speaker icon on them. I could right-click on the clip and choose “Unlink” from the menu.
What is the world did I do differently ???
THREE: Auto ZOOM OUT
In FCP, I commonly used the Shift – Z shortcut to zoom out to where I can view my full timeline.Does a similar short cut exist in Premiere?
FOUR: Slice via the keyboard
In FCP, I commonly would forego the actual blade tool for the Control-V short cut which would
1) Slice through all tracks (if none were selected) or
2) Only slice through a track that was selected.Is there a short cut to do this in Premiere?
(even checked a short cut that didn’t seam to work from the kb shortcut list)… ??
FIVE: The WORK AREA vs I and O (re: timeline)
In FCP, I used I and O (IN THE TIMELINE) to dictate what I might export (or edit)In Premiere, I can set In and Out points using the same method. But then what.
In order to export a specific excerpt, I use Option- [ and Option-] (to set the beginning and end of my “Work Area”)
Then I use Command-M to open AME (Adobe Media Encoder).… soooooo…. what’s the I and O good for in Premiere if I just use the Work Area??
SIX: Moving clips around — Video and Audio together
In FCP, Video and Audio “Mirror” each other as they are moved around.In Premiere, the default behavior is different. The Vid and Audio are “Linked” but one can still raise a Video track to “Video 5” all while its linked audio track REMAINS right on “Audio 1”
Is there not a way to get Premiere to act the same way?
Ok, that’s a fairly long list. Good for now… I try to keep this up as I use it and run into ??’s
Thanks in advance.
Drew“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
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[Drew Hudgins] “TWO (BIG topic… sorry if redundant but read through… ) SPLITTING STEREO AUDIO FOR MIXING CONTROL OVER BOTH CHANNELS
In FCP, I often drag a clips to the timeline, select it (especially selecting the stereo audio channels) and using Option-L to split the linking of the two channels of audio.
Great for recording two separate sources (boom on cha. 1 and Room mic on Cha 2) and THEN getting to control the mix of the two.But in Premiere, the best way I’ve hear thus far is to duplicate the stereo track into ANOTHER stereo track, adding the Audio Effects, “FILL RIGHT,” and “FILL LEFT”
– this method loses the linkage of the duplicated track – edits become clunky”Audio effects > channel volume will give you control over the individual left and right channels of a stereo audio track.
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