Prelude uses

[Andy Edwards]

Had one of our producers use it 2 weeks ago. He got part of the work flow down from some tutorials, but in the end dropped it. All the transcoding that was going on with his base MBP laptop was taking so long before he could get anything done. He figured he could copy his full res clips to an external drive, load up premiere, cut his selects, send the sequence to the in house editor that had the same clips on a SAN and move on.

Since I’m not really up to speed on Prelude I figured he was not using it right or there were some wrong preferences set up to eat up his time transcoding. I guess I need to watch some tutorials on it and see if I can help him out with a better work flow. For now he has moved on and won’t use Prelude any more.

Andy Edwards

[Paul Neumann]

I use Prelude for every edit I do now. Took a while to figure out all the goodies in there but it’s worth it. Have yet to come across any comprehensive tutorials on not just features but workflows as well. You just got to get in there and learn it. But man, it quickly becomes a favorite way to get things organized and familiar.

The only real flakey thing I’ve come across is that for AVCHD it needs to ingest any clip and have the audio conform before you can hoverscrub and hear the audio. So I just ingest the entire card, let it conform then delete the clips and start over. Seriously doesn’t take that long.

So Oliver, for me it’s load, mark, ingest, subclip, organize in bins then send them all to PPro to start editing.

[Oliver Peters]

[Paul Neumann] “for me it’s load, mark, ingest, subclip, organize in bins then send them all to PPro to start editing.”

Out of curiosity, why not just do the same in Premiere to start with?

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Paul Neumann]

Easier to mark multiple subs off a single clip. Easier to mark just by audio (bigger display and waveforms). Once marked the info carries with the clip throughout the Suite. Comments, names etc. are displayed for you in AE and Audition for instance. Makes it real easy to set up an multicam clip of different takes a la FCPX’s Audition feature.

But one of the big things for me is marking select clips and transferring them to new destination (no transcoding mind you) and Prelude rebuilds a file structure with the selects so that’s easy to hand off or to archive.

[Herb Sevush]

[Paul Neumann] “Makes it real easy to set up an multicam clip of different takes a la FCPX’s Audition feature. “

What makes FCPX’s Audition feature special is that the alternate takes can have different lengths, and the timeline adjusts automatically. Showing different versions of the same length has always been an easy thing to accomplish in most any NLE.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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