It’s Been a Day… Initial Reactions?

[Casey Pegram]

Just being able to render my timeline to prores and then export using those same render files is going to be a huge, huge time saver for me.

My only real pet peeve so far is I wish when you muted/disabled output for a track, it had a muted color in the timeline as well. As it is right now, it feels harder to eyeball what’s turned on and off at a glance because the same bright color is still there.

Very handy having duplicate frame indicators and through edits. Also having selectable attributes to copy/paste from one clip to another will be huge in some situations.

Also happy to see all my CS6 plugins came in without issue once I copied them over (Colorista, FilmConvert, Creative Impatience, etc).

I haven’t used it much yet, but I think the clip audio editor is going to be very helpful as well.

[Al Levine]

It’s actually pretty quiet on this forum, considering this is a major release.

I’m enjoying the software. I can move very quickly with the new key commands, it’s feeling good. It’s comfortable. Few small issues (that can be big depending on what I’m trying to do):

• When I use the pen tool to create keyframes on a clip, I cannot raise or lower the entire clips audio levels using a key command. Only when there aren’t any keyframes.

• Cannot match frame a freeze frame in the viewer, or change a freeze frame’s duration. Because I work in animation, I freeze frame quite a bit. In FCP 7, I would SHIFT+N to create a freeze frame, then drag out a duration.
Seems the only solution I can find is to export a JPEG still, then bring it back in… a lot of steps.

The software is FAST though, even with a ton of layers and effects it’s working amazingly well with my i7 iMac… Open CL is on, ATI Radeon HD 5750 1024 MB.

[Greg Jones]

I’ve had time to play with it on my b computer. Seems pretty spunky. I’ll have more time to put it through it’s paces once I finish the job I’m currently on. Didn’t want upgrade software in mid project. I learned my lesson on that one a long time ago.

Greg Jones
D7,Inc.

Greg Jones
Orlando,Fl.
https://www.d7-inc.com

[Chris Borjis]

[Al LeVine] “• Cannot match frame a freeze frame in the viewer, or change a freeze frame’s duration. Because I work in animation, I freeze frame quite a bit. In FCP 7, I would SHIFT+N to create a freeze frame, then drag out a duration.
Seems the only solution I can find is to export a JPEG still, then bring it back in… a lot of steps.”

darn, I’d hoped they’d addressed that in this version (making it more like fcp).
I too need a duration of still often.

[Mel Matsuoka]

[Al LeVine] ” Cannot match frame a freeze frame in the viewer, or change a freeze frame’s duration. Because I work in animation, I freeze frame quite a bit. In FCP 7, I would SHIFT+N to create a freeze frame, then drag out a duration.
Seems the only solution I can find is to export a JPEG still, then bring it back in… a lot of steps.”

You’re working too hard 🙂

You can freeze a clip by right clicking on it in the timeline and choosing “Frame Hold”. You can extend the length of the freeze by using the Rate Stretch tool and dragging the outpoint to however long you want it.

[Nevin Styre]

Haven’t had much time to delve into it but it has already helped me a little with the new media reconnecting. I have to online an old FC7 project and all the media was not managed well by the previous editor, after half an hour of trying to reconnect clips/files in FC7 I decided to export an XML and import it into PP CC. PPCC automatically connected to 95% of the material while I was probably only near 50% through trying to reconnect manually in FC7. I’m going to have to reapply a few filters and make some new masks as not everything translates perfectly from final cut, but I still reckon I’ll save time compared to just trying to get it up and rolling in FC7. Also by doing this I found out livetype ipr files work in premiere pro.

[David Gaudio]

I’ve had a couple of crashes, but fortunately the program managed to save my project file both times before exiting, so it was just a minute or two of time lost while crashing and reopening; no actual work lost.

I have an audio issue, however, that I will deal with in a separate thread.

[Chris Borjis]

[Mel Matsuoka] “You can freeze a clip by right clicking on it in the timeline and choosing “Frame Hold”. You can extend the length of the freeze by using the Rate Stretch tool and dragging the outpoint to however long you want it.”

True, but sometimes thats a pain in the rump to do and you don’t
quite get the result when adusting the frame held clip.

But ya, it’s faster that way then exporting a still.