Premier ePro new version reveal

[Mitch Ives]

[Charlie Austin] “The debate is really whether they’re doing it quickly enough, or succeeding at all.”

I think the succeeding part is sort of a given. Whether they’re doing it quick enough, I think a lot of people think they aren’t. Let’s face it, Apple has a lot of irons in the fire… Adobe is less distracted…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

[Steve Connor]

[David Cherniack] “Just so it’s clear. The Color Panel invokes an instance of the Lumetri effect in the Effects Panel where the effect is maskable and stackable, effectively creating as many secondaries as you want.
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Thanks, that answers a question I was going to ask. Looking forward to trying it out soon.

[David Cherniack]

[David Cherniack] “Just so it’s clear. The Color Panel invokes an instance of the Lumetri effect in the Effects Panel”

Should read “The Color Panel invokes an instance of the Lumetri effect in the Effects Control Panel”

David
https://AllinOneFilms.com

[Dennis Radeke]

[David Powell] “I was really hoping for improved track targeting, patching and marker function. Color following playhead is great. Its one thing I sorely missed from Avid.”

What specifically are you looking for that is missing in Premiere Pro in these respects?

Thanks,
Dennis – Adobe guy

[Timothy Auld]

Well, for my part navigation being so dependent on track patching is a problem for me. I feel it slows me down quite a bit. Smarter folk than I probably understand why it is designed this way but I’ve yet to figure it out. Also I would love it if, when you navigate to a cut, the cut point was highlighted so you could clearly see it. And finally the markers need to be “smart markers” that stay put with respect to the source clip no matter where or how many times it is moved or otherwise altered in the timeline. Not having the markers that do this severely limits their usefulness.

Tim

[Dan Pearce]

I’ll throw in my 2 cents regards track targeting…

Personally i was hoping we’d now be able to change track targets whilst in Trim mode.
At present one has to deselect edit points (taking you out of trim mode), make a new track selection, go back into trim mode. I find this ruins the experience of going up and down a timeline whilst in trim mode.

[David Powell]

Hi Dennis,

There are a number of things. The patching and track selection should have a follow function. Way too much mousing, clicking and dragging has to happen. In FCP 7 for instance a right click would give you the option to pull the target to from A1 or A2. In Premiere you have to drag it. Check out how avid can easily select track targets by lassoing and option lassoing over them. Its extremely smooth.

Re: Markers

When I’m playing a sequence, I want to hit “M” (or whatever hotkey) and the track that is targeted should have a marker placed on the clip. This is HUGE for cutting down events into highlights. Currently Premiere forces me to stop click on the clip and add a marker. This slows down my work process so badly that Premiere is just unusable for the loss in time. There is no reason markers should default to sticking to the top. As soon and you make an edit that time in place is obsolete and the marker is of no use. I want to hit play and mark up selects on the timeline without the stopping.

Oh and a fade down command like Avid’s! That would be awesome! I have more but those are the biggies for me.

[Chris Harlan]

It’ll be terrific for bts featurettes, as well.

[Andy Lewis]

“I want to hit play and mark up selects on the timeline without the stopping”

I agree with this. FCP7 had an “extend and edit marker” keyboard shortcut. Although to be fair, you couldn’t use it with clip markers.

When I first saw Ppro’s marker window I thought it was excellent – then I realised that it only shows sequence markers – it should show all markers in a sequence.

And what is it with Premiere and stopping playback? To edit a marker I have to double click on it, and not only does playback stop but the playhead shifts to the marker before grinding to a halt – why? I can’t think of any situation in which that would be desirable behaviour.

It’s possible that Prelude does all the above better than FCP ever did but I can’t use it as nearly all projects start with pluraleyes and xml. Maybe if Premiere projects could be sent to Prelude that would work. Or how about bringing Prelude functionality into Ppro – like with the new colour tools?

[Paul Neumann]

Hit D (select clip at playhead) and then M while the timeline plays. This puts the marker on the clip.