Missing Essential Keyboard Commands in 2.0

[Paul King]

Are we talking about editing the video and leaving the audio where it is?
So we are making a change to the interview and overlay vision and not touching the interview audio?

A’lt’ key – edit video or audio only. Works with all the tools and video and audio stay in sync.

Paul

[Paul King]

I agree about missing the home key taking you to the head of the clip. I too used it for setting keyframes. At least the other way you had a choice to deselect all clips and then hit the home key.

So what Premiere needs is a set of edit preferences (like AVID) that tells it how the user would like it to behaive for specific commands, like the home key.

Other would be how to behaive when doing an audio automation mix – clip or track, where to save titles and whther to use project embeded ones or externally saved versions and whether to offer speed or duration change for Crtl R.

Switches would fix everything because users could make Premiere behaive how they want it to.

Thanks

Paul

[L. D. james]

The wrong directions is right, in many ways. Following the version upgrades there are many zigzags. When I first starting using Premiere the preview would always pause on lost of Premiere’s focus (ie any windows alert message pop up, or if the user decided to check his email). This was finally fixed in Premiere pro. Now it’s removed in version 2.0 (unless I’m missing how to fix this “BUG”).

Actually I wish someone would tell me that I’m wrong and would tell me where to find the configuration option.

I’m glad they didn’t go back to the annoyance of moving the Current-Time Indicator to the beginning and playing the movie every time you rendered.

I recently upgraded my machine, so the speed in rendering and the smoothness in realtime preview might that appears to be a plus might be a reflection of my hardware upgrade. However, in this matter, I like what I see.

There are quiet a few annoyances I see in this latest versions. However, the respecting of Windows control is such a profound enhancement, that it eases a lot of aggravation. I couldn’t believe how they locked you in that “Work Space” when you had a lot of real estate that was being lost by not being able to drag windows to other areas (including other monitors).

When I complained about this before, some of the die-hards would say all you have to do is stretch your work space. However, that took away a lot of functionality from the OS by hiding everything else besides Premiere. Now with this new feature, we are allowed to include more of the power of the OS with our productivity.

Look at the picture below. I’m able to review the Creative Cow forum while working with my project. Unfortunately, I can’t preview my project while reading the messages, because of the “bug/feature” that pauses the playback when Premiere loses mouse focus.

By the way, I shrunk the Project Monitor to just the controls because the actual preview is being shown on an extended monitor via the firewire output. I also shrunk the workarea to just the menu bar because all the windows are places throughout my desktop, expanded across two monitors. The space in between the windows are the OS’ explorer windows and other programs that I find useful to be able to conveniently switch to. I won’t reiterate my aggravation about the preview pausing every time I switch. However, it would really be nice to be able to have my preview running while I post this article.

As far as I can see, we lost the ability to delete a file from the Project window. They gave the Bridge which has this functionality. Of course this will take Premiere out of focus and cause your movie preview to stop if you look at that window. The Bridge has the functionality of review in Explorer. This is a plus. However, the option should be in Premiere and not just the Bridge. Having the review in explorer would have removed the need for the Bridge for people who are familiar with using the OS. I would take the power of exploring using the OS and other applications over the limited (though neat) features of the Bridge any day.

There are many things that I see missing, that might appear in version 2.1. I’ve read in some of the threads here and other places that Adobe might have been under the gun with certain strategies to release, which might have prevented the programmers to getting all the features smoothed out. They might be still in the process of fixing them. So whoever has a voice the might be heard by the developers, please be expressive.

The jury is still out on what’s missing, and what enhancements are appreciated. I hope someone will tell me that some of the features I count as missing has a workaround that I happen to be missing.

I have a list of those features that I’ll mention in a separate post so as not to clutter this initial post more than it already is.

— L. James

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