Premiere Pro – I could be convinced!

[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

Then how’s this for a solution to #2: Don’t have audio assignments be a property of the master clip, make them a property of each instance of the clip anywhere in the project, like the way in/out point are; when you bring a clip from the project panel to the timeline or the viewer it opens with the current audio assignments, but when you change them in the project panel it doesn’t affect any clips already in the timeline.

So, say, you bring in your clips as dual mono, and you stick a bunch on the timeline. Then, you modify the channels on any of them and any future clips added to the timeline will come in with the new assignments, but everything already in the timeline remains the same.

As an added bonus, add the ability to change the audio assignments of a clip already in the timeline. You’d just need the appropriate warning boxes about possibly overwriting stuff.

As a bonus, this would solve one of my biggest peeves… that there is no way to bring back the audio to a clip once the audio has been unlinked and deleted. You’d just right click the clip and select “Audio Assignments” or something like that and a window would come up and all the audio track would be turned off. You could then turn the audio back on and you’d have your audio back. No need to match frame back to the bin to get the audio back.

You could even do the same thing with audio that’s lost it’s video… just turn the video “track” back on.

While you’re at it, do the same thing to “source settings” for Red footage. I’ve often had to duplicate Red clips in the bin to apply two different color corrections to them.

[Mike Cohen]

[Mike Cohen] “Double click the clip on the sequence to open in course monitor. But then if you change an in or out point, it changes the clip on the sequence. You can right click the clip and select “reveal in project” but not necessarily get to the same in point in the original clip.”

Ok, so the match frame command solves this riddle. Did match frame exist as a function prior to CS6?

I can tell you how to do a match frame on an ACE 25 if anyone is interested 🙂