Premiere wish list

[David Cherniack]

Hey, when Friendly gets upset about what’s missing in PPro, you know it’s Serious.

Here’s one that no one seems to have thought of – a set of keystokes to lock and unlock tracks. This would be like ctl 1-9 to toggle video tracks, alt 1-8 to toggle audio tracks. Mousing around to do it is driving me silly.

David
AllinOneFilms.com

[David Cherniack]

And how bout ‘ctl home’ and ‘ctl end’ to do what they do in all other apps! If you want to go to the beginning/end of the sequence having to deselect whatever is selected before you push home or end is positively cruel.

David
AllinOneFilms.com

[David Cherniack]

And the ability to have seperate undo lists for each open sequence ( kind of a no-brainer, eh).

And how ’bout the ability to maintain undo lists from session to session.

David
AllinOneFilms.com

[Tim Kolb]

[Dave Friend] “What I have in mind is to be able to re-scale the display’s area much the way Audition zooms the waveform display in the vertical direction. For instance, if we assume (dangerous I know) that it currently reflects 0dDfs at the full height of the waveform display area I would like it to instead reflect other values. For example, where full display height is at -9dBfs.”

Ah…now I get it. I suppose first we’d have to have some sort of graticule that showed the level before we could bother to scale it with any effect…right now there really isn’t a way to visualize this on the audio track.

TimK,

Kolb Syverson Communications,
Creative Cow Host,
2004-2005 NAB Post Production Conference
Premiere Pro Technical Chair,
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net

[Dave Friend]

Can not believe I almost forgot this one.

16. Easily select multiple clips, on multiple tracks, and create a nested timeline from them. The selections would be moved into a new sequence. This new sequence would be the source clip in the original sequence replacing the clips used to create the nest. (And no, cut & paste is not the same thing.)

This one is so elemental that I keep thinking it must be there somewhere but I haven’t found it yet.

[Tim Kolb]

[Dave Friend] “16. Easily select multiple clips, on multiple tracks, and create a nested timeline from them. The selections would be moved into a new sequence. This new sequence would be the source clip in the original sequence replacing the clips used to create the nest. (And no, cut & paste is not the same thing.)

This one is so elemental that I keep thinking it must be there somewhere but I haven’t found it yet.”

I get it…a’ la “pre-comp” in AE. That’s a good suggestion.

TimK,

Kolb Syverson Communications,
Creative Cow Host,
2004-2005 NAB Post Production Conference
Premiere Pro Technical Chair,
Author, “The Easy Guide to Premiere Pro” http://www.focalpress.com
“Premiere Pro Fast Track DVD Series” http://www.classondemand.net

[Eric Jurgenson]

That’s why I like the idea of a macro tool. A lot of these things could be implemented through something not too different from the macro tool in Photoshop (actions).

OK, I’m going to say it. Could we pleeze have point to point timeline selection indicated by a color change on record enabled.. I mean TARGETED tracks, which could subsequently be removed and rippled by hitting the delete key? I thought not. damn.

[David Cherniack]

And how ’bout the ability to select a range on the timeline for cut/copying. Right now we’re limited to selecting clip boundaries which is way too constricting and requires the additional steps of making razored cuts in order to accomplish it….which leads me to:

The ability to delete a cut in a clip where the timecode is continuous.

David
AllinOneFilms.com

[Dave Friend]

[David Cherniack] “The ability to delete a cut in a clip where the timecode is continuous.”

I agree. (Of course the rolling edit tool would suffice if it didn’t insist on leaving the last frame of the clip you are rolling over. grrr…)

Dave

[David Cherniack]

[Dave Friend] “(Of course the rolling edit tool would suffice if it didn’t insist on leaving the last frame of the clip you are rolling over. grrr…)”

grrr, is right! What the (substitute your own expletive) were they thinking with that!

David
AllinOneFilms.com