Premiere Pro 2.0 …..Where’s the Beef?

[Greg Beckt]

For my workflow I was really hoping for 4 things…

-Native HDV & Other Capture Card options(AJA)…Great, gives us some options other than Axio.

-Tighter Integration with AE…all f/x carry over from PPro to AE…looks like this has been addressed.

-The “Chain of Effects” like AE…really thought this would’ve been added. I do some work on Avid DS too and having those presets and a keystroke to access saved presets is huge, especially from project to project. They did add a “transparent layer” which you can add several effects to and it will affect the underlying layer. I just think this may be cumbersome. If anyone who has beta tested this can describe how this is working for you let us know.

-Time Remapping…looks like we’ll still have to do this in AE…why?

Greg

[Lance Bachelder]

Complete AAF / OMF integration – to play nice with others
AAF import/export much improved and works well with Vegas 6 and Avid Xpress Pro.

Hardware control – external mixers etc
Not yet. Although I’ve yet to see editors running work surfaces even on systems that support them – audio editors seem to live by them.

Import Single sequence from another project automatically
I agree with this one but simple work around – dump all unnecessary files and sequences from other project before you import it. Importing other PPro projects works well – though don’t know what “automatically” menas?

Chain of effects – user built effects chain to be reused
Presets are easy to build but still must ne appied individually unless via copy and paste attributes. Sony Vegas is the only NLE I know of the allows custom fx chains.

Hot keys for Effects
Odd request.

Open complete sequence into Audition – Audio and Video –
This is a MUST but not there.

3:2 Pulldown tools like after effects for film based work
Are you editing film that will have the begative cut? Doubtful.

Ram leak issue
You want this added back in as a feature?

Lance Bachelder
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