I’ll just leave this here

[Tom Daigon]

Congrats! Knock ’em dead

Tom Daigon
Avid DS / PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com
Mac Pro 3,1
8 core
10.6.8
Nvidia Quadro 4000
24 gigs ram
Maxx Digital / Areca 8tb. raid
Kona 3

[Derek Andonian]

Wow, that’s great! Out of curiosity, what video format was the show shot with?

As for whether or not it was a fluke- only time will tell. But I wouldn’t be surprised to see a trend when CS6 gets here, because it looks very promising. Just from watching the John Adobe video, you can tell they’ve been working their tails off on this thing. The entire timeline has been rebuilt, for starters. Those new audio meters are gorgeous, and the playback buttons are much nicer looking. The whole thing has a lot less clutter and it seems like it will be much easier to find things quickly. Everything seems to have a more professional feel to it- they seem to be taking into account that people are going to be using this program for hours on end if they’re working on something very significant like, say, a half-hour tv show…

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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.”

[Nick Ring]

I’m fairly an utter novice w/ Premiere, but the brief glimpse of CS6 do look good. The button clutter was one of the things I hated about Premiere–the streamlining of that, at least at first glance, looks like a good usability improvement. I look forward to seeing the next stage of Premiere.

[Daniel Frome]

The “show” was not supposed to be a show initially. It was a web series produced by an ad agency. Shot mostly on DSLR (but fairly good production value). Now the idea was spun to turn it into a half hour TV program, and several editors have passed on this job because “it’s Premiere.” As ungrateful as that sounds, that’s the truth of how it ended up in my lap. The idea is to take the existing webisodes and create a proper half-hour from them.

I have some bad news though — the project looks like it was handled terribly from a media management standpoint. I’ve got multiple 5D shots with the same filenames (and it forced me to manually relink when opening the project…. not knowing which file is correct) – and it even uses plenty of WMV renders, which appear to be mixed down from other edits. There’s also plenty of “sequence within sequences” – which I also hate (but that’s probably the Avid editor shining through).

My workstation at home (8 core Xeon, 16GB RAM, CUDA supported videocard) was able to open up this project OK. But my laptop (quad i7, 8GB RAM, non CUDA card) has frozen 3 times already after opening up the project. It seems to get stuck on all the conforming jobs.

I’m already having a bad feeling about this, and might end up having to pass on the project simply because I already have a daytime editing job, and can’t fix this + finish the job in my spare time on schedule.

This is sad because I truly like Premiere… and I’ve used it on plenty of smaller projects. This is the stereotypical issue(s) that plague Premiere on every large project I’ve seen.

I’ll report back if the situation gets better.

[Tom Daigon]

Maybe its just as well. A sloppily managed project can be a big PITA. And if this is on your time, you probably dont need the frustration. Another will come along.

Tom Daigon
Avid DS / PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com
Mac Pro 3,1
8 core
10.6.8
Nvidia Quadro 4000
24 gigs ram
Maxx Digital / Areca 8tb. raid
Kona 3

[Brian Mulligan]

Why does it HAVE to be edited on Premiere?

Brian Mulligan
Senior Editor – Autodesk Smoke
WTHR-TV Indianapolis,IN, USA
Twitter: @bkmeditor

[Daniel Frome]

While I’m at it, is there a way to insert material from one sequence to another WITHOUT nesting? I remember Ppro was missing this feature before…and now I’m really hoping it has it…

[Daniel Frome]

Other editors actually tried to get the project converted XML. But when you’ve got complex sequences with WMV’s and DSLR footage (stuff that FCP sucks at) then even getting the entire complex edit transferred over (hardly realistic) you’re going to end up with a bunch of footage formats that don’t jive with FCP.

Trust me, the drive is littered with FCP XML files.

I finally got these projects to open on my laptop, but performance is very slow. Half the time the viewer isn’t even responding when I scrub around the timeline. If I render the timeline, then it’s not bad at all… so … rendering is what I’ve got to do.

[Ewan Lim]

Just a query… Isn’t there a media manage -> file renaming feature in PPro? If not then it looks like an extra edit day just to rename the files according to each episode and then re-link everything…. Either that or just export each webisode as a whole(minus the music) and edit from there if possible since it is a plonking together everything to make a half an hour show.

If it is bbc then i hope someone there turns misery bear into a full half-an-hour show. Love that bear.

Ewan
Avid, FCS3, Premiere Pro, After Effects

[Alex Udell]

Copy and Paste is really what you are looking for….

there is insert paste as well….

Alex