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Media Organization in Premiere vs. FCPX
I started my video editing work in FCPX, but decided to start learning Premiere to see if I like it better. I’m starting to see a lot of benefits with Premiere, however one thing I can’t get over is the media organization. Although the bins and sub-bins thing is great and intuitive, FCPX seems to have a lot more features for organizing your project before you edit.
For example, in FCPX, you can quickly add keywords or “Favorite” labels to a clip or section of a clip with just a few keystrokes. You can even add multiple keyword labels to a clip, which is very helpful in case I am torn as to what to label it. For example, if I took a timelapse while on a mountain hike, I can label it as both “Timelapse” and “Mountain Hike”, so if I’m searching through my timelapses keyword collection it will show up, as well as in my mountain hike collection. Also, if I’m not sure what to label it at all, but I just know I definitely want to use this clip sometime, you just hit F and it will Favorite that clip or section so you can easily find it later.
So far, I haven’t found similar tools in Premiere. All the organization tutorial videos I’ve found on Youtube are very fundamental, like “Make a new bin, label it, drag and drop your footage into that bin”. What happens if I drag and drop that footage into multiple bins? Does that create extra work for my computer? And how do I mark a certain clip as something I definitely want to use, and be able to recall it at a future time?
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14 Replies
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Prelude.
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You can add keywords to the description field in the project panel or the metadata panel and if you search for a keyword in the project panel you can find your footage.
[Jeff Holcomb] “What happens if I drag and drop that footage into multiple bins?”
In Premiere you’ll have only one copy of a media file. You can duplicate that but then it’ll be a new independent clip.
[Jeff Holcomb] “And how do I mark a certain clip as something I definitely want to use, and be able to recall it at a future time?”
Use labels or mark the clip as good in the metadata or drag it into a favorites bin or write favorite into the description metadata. You can also make a keyboard shortcut to a specific label.
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If you look at the Metadata panel in project panel…
there are a lot of options…some may not even be exposed by default.
you also have the option of creating your own categories….
Alex Udell
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Cool, thanks for the reply, all of those seem pretty straightforward, although maybe a few steps longer than in FCPX. For example, in FCPX, you can highlight a clip or section, hit CMD+K and it will bring up a text box for keyword labels, or you can set certain keywords to hot keys, so you can highlight a clip or multiple clips and hit CTRL+1 and it will tag everything you’ve highlighted. I’m not sure yet if there are any streamlined shortcuts like that in Premiere, but I’ll get acquainted with it and hopefully it becomes as quick and easy as FCPX.
Thanks!
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Premiere to me fails at the start.
Too many gotchas in the import regarding RED files.
It gets worse when you cant re-link files easily from top root.
FCPX can do this with no problem.
Oh well at least I find use for Premiere time to time.
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Have you looked at using Adobe Bridge? Here’s an article I wrote a few years ago for the COW Magazine:
https://library.creativecow.net/bourke_joseph/magazine_27-Adobe-Bridge/1
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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I haven’t, although someone mentioned Prelude earlier in the thread. What do these other programs do, in a nutshell? Its a little off-putting to have to purchase additional programs, since I’m trying to get away with paying the $20/month deal for just the one Premiere CC program.
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[Eric Santiago] “Too many gotchas in the import regarding RED files.”
There’s been a Premiere RED workflow paper since CS6. The only gotcha is importing them through the media browser panel so the spanned clips are brought in properly.
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As far as I’ve found, it will NOT become as quick and easy as FCPX at this stage.
May be in subsequent versions.
I’ll be glad to learn otherwise though. -
Jeff –
Both Adobe Bridge and Prelude are included as part of the CC offering. You just have to install them and see which one best suits your needs.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com
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