Premiere Pro CC impressions

[Chris Harlan]

[Andy Field] ” one I’d like them to fix is being able to cut and paste transitions…this doesn’t seem possible now”

But, you can! Put your cursor over the trans., select the trans., copy the trans. Put you cursor over the cut where you want to paste, select it, make sure the track is selected, paste.

[Herb Sevush]

[Andy Field] “have you tried their new multicam in this version? It is much improved and I think will sync on sound”

Anyone can sync on sound using Plural Eyes. It’s nice to have it as part of the internal ap, but most of my work is in studio where Time Code sync is expected, so that feature is not such a big deal in my situation.

I tried the new multicam when Adobe first posted it on the cloud and it still sucked – I’ve heard that they have since added the missing match back features in later updates, so that’s an improvement. But they still don’t seem to comprehend that it is essential to create a multicam clip that can be manipulated exactly as any other clip but with the added feature of having multiple angles. They still seem to think of multicam as some sort of filter instead of as an object in itself. The fact that at this point in time their multicam implementation still can’t handle discontinuous shooting just shows how little they understand the needs of a multicam editor. They need to take a serious look at the FCPX multicam feature and understand that they have to at least come up to that level, if not exceed it. It can’t be that hard, discreet *edit could do this sort of stuff 10 years ago.

Herb Sevush
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[Lance Bachelder]

Yeah I don’t think I’ve crashed once since June, maybe because I’m running it on Win 7 Pro?

I do agree, Option dragging transitions was a staple for me in FCP 7, needs to be added to CC for sure.

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1680680/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

[Lance Bachelder]

I agree about transcoding – I’m loving Adobe Media Encoder for batching tons of files using a custom preset – easier and faster than Compressor or you can use Prelude if you want to change file names, metadata etc.

Yeah I find the 3-way corrector in CC completely useless, I use the Fast Corrector for quick scoping of levels and saturation but no one has been able to create a simple yet powerful 3 way corrector like we had in FCP 7. Colorista is great but I find i don’t get very good real-time performance out of any of the Red Giant tools even though I like them.

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1680680/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

[Walter Soyka]

[Shane Ross] “BAD: Media Management still needs a lot of work. But that’s a drawback to working native…tracking media. And doing things like managing a sequence to only reference the footage used in the cut…PPro can’t do that. And built in color correction isn’t there yet either, I still rely on Colorista 2…which is great. Speedgrade…can’t monitor out via AJA or BMD yet, so it’s useless.”

I’d agree that media management does still seem a bit weak.

The new Pr CC relink window is miles better than the CS6 relink hell.

Pr’s Project Manager can trim projects [link], but not for long-GOP formats.

I’m still a bit of a novice at SpeedGrade, but I had been using a calibration LUT for my profiled 10-bit HP monitor for accurate color on CS6 without the NVIDIA SDI daughter card. CC added support for supported AJA and Matrox cards via Mercury Transmit (though I have no idea which ones).

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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[Steve Connor]

[Walter Soyka] “I’m still a bit of a novice at SpeedGrade,”

Proper round tripping to Speedgrade would at least make up for the poor CC tools in PPro, I would imagine this would be added at some point.

Steve Connor

There’s nothing we can’t argue about on the FCPX COW Forum

[Walter Soyka]

[Steve Connor] “Proper round tripping to Speedgrade would at least make up for the poor CC tools in PPro, I would imagine this would be added at some point.”

I’ve filed my feature request.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
Creative Cow Forum Host: Live & Stage Events

[Justin Ferar]

4 projects in (coming from FCP7) I cannot make Premiere CC crash- even if I try. This on a MacPro.

To my astonishment it even plays back some of my Motion projects in realtime right in the timeline.

Audio Clip Mixer is great except the last key frame doesn’t stay where you left the fader. It snaps back to the point where you first touched the fader- this is plain old dumb.

True- no transcoding if you don’t want to but snappiness lags and then you have super long transcodes at the end if you want edited masters (and who doesn’t ?). But that’s what Media Encoder is for and it works well in the background.

For God’s sake you can finally adjust the volume of a clip in the source window so you don’t get blown out of the edit chair on playback.

Bad: You still have to select the tracks in the timeline before you do the “add edit” command. This is also just dumb. You should be able to just lasso the clips in the timeline and then add edit.

Very BAD: I haven’t figured out a way to select a group or batch of commonly used effects and then drop them onto a clip. Even if you’ve created a preset folder you can’t just grab the folder and drop it on the clip. You have to shift click each one and then drag and drop. Stupid.

Bottom line for me is that FCPX is not an option until GenArts brings Sapphire to the table.

[Kevin Monahan]

[Justin Ferar] “Bad: You still have to select the tracks in the timeline before you do the “add edit” command. “

Justin,
You might try “Add Edit to All Tracks.” It will place an Add Edit without track selection. However, it will place an add edit where you might not want one. Make a feature request if you like.

If you want to save multiple effects as a single preset, make a feature request. That would be a good one: https://www.adobe.com/go/wish

Thanks,
Kevin

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[Paul Neumann]

Re: Very BAD

You can save any number of effects as a single preset that can be applied to multiple clips. So say you put a scale, transparency/blend, ccr, blur and audio EQ on a clip you can then highlight them (command click) in the effects control panel, right click and save the preset. It will save all of them together as one preset.