Questions for CS6

[John Czerwinski]

Hi Dennis,

One of the features in our work flow is custom templates. For the moment we are using FCP 7 with Motion templates that has an animation (buillt in AE) and a phone number and website. Once we build the master commercial we build out versions using Motion templates adding the lower third in FCP 7 and changing the phone number and website within FCP 7. Has a similar feature been added to Premiere or dynamic linking?

The work around in 5.5 I found was to have one layer for the animation and one layer for phone number built using Premiere’s graphic program. Not exactly the best work flow but it could work.

Thank you for your time,

John

[Dennis Radeke]

[Michael Hancock] “Does Premiere have Auto Patching in the timeline now? Example: If I have source V1 patched to Record V1, uncheck Record V1 and check Record V3 does V1 automatically patch to V3? If not, has anything changed in how Premiere patched video/audio tracks?”

No, and we know we need to address track targeting.

[Michael Hancock] “Can you use the keyboard to move selected clips to a higher or lower track?”

No, you can move clips left/right, but not up/down. We saw this pop up late in the beta cycle by a lot of FCP users. We took note, but it’s not in CS6

[Michael Hancock] “Can you load a sequence into your source monitor and cut it into the timeline without it nesting – I’d prefer to have access to all video/audio tracks in the loaded sequence to repatch to the timeline.”

This is an Avid feature and again, no – couldn’t get to that one.

[Michael Hancock] “If I load a clip with 4 mono tracks in my source monitor but have all stereo tracks in my timeline, does Premiere show me that I have 4 mono tracks on the source side? Right now it doesn’t show those tracks available for patching if I don’t the proper audio tracks available for the clip.”

With regards to audio, Premiere Pro will let you do just about anything you want with it. You could take your 4 audio clip and display it nearly any way you want: 4 mono, 2 stereo or 1 ‘adaptive’ track that holds all 4 audio as a single track instance.

For source side viewing you need to switch to an audio display mode if you want to see the wave form. The master audio meter in CS6 has also been done and toggles automatically between the source/timeline/program views. So, if your clip in the source has 4 mono tracks then the audio meter will display 4 mono meters.

[Bob Woodhead]

Brave? I’d call it downright professional and responsive to their customers’ concerns. Hello, Apple? knock, knock… Apple….. anyone listening….?

[Dennis Radeke]

[John Czerwinski] “One of the features in our work flow is custom templates. For the moment we are using FCP 7 with Motion templates that has an animation (buillt in AE) and a phone number and website. Once we build the master commercial we build out versions using Motion templates adding the lower third in FCP 7 and changing the phone number and website within FCP 7. Has a similar feature been added to Premiere or dynamic linking?

The work around in 5.5 I found was to have one layer for the animation and one layer for phone number built using Premiere’s graphic program. Not exactly the best work flow but it could work.”

I think the short answer is no – we haven’t done the workflow like FCP+Motion as of yet. There are however a lot of workarounds. The one I’d probably do (using After Effects) is to use a spreadsheet or comma deliminated file to make substitutions for your file for multiple render outputs. If you just need to change it periodically (not multiple times in one shot), then dynamic link by itself should work handsomely.

[Michael Hancock]

Thanks for the reply Dennis. Sounds like the audio issues have been solved (and then some). That’s huge.

Once CS6 drops I’ll start sending in more feature requests (like auto patching, retain sequence tracks when in source monitor, etc…). Congrats again on the impending release. You guys are getting a lot of positive press.

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Michael Hancock
Editor

[Steve Connor]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “Definitely not the way that hot wheels demo shows it –

that hot wheels demo is off all my known AE charts. Nevermind the implications of the 3D camera tracker.
“

I hadn’t seen this until now, it’s pretty incredible!

Steve Connor
“FCPX Professional”
Adrenalin Television

[Misha Aranyshev]

[Dennis Radeke] “This is an Avid feature and again, no – couldn’t get to that one.”

This is FCP Legacy feature too.

[Alan Lacey]

Prem to report back its last known filepath to clips that have gone online. PLEASE!

Alan

FlashXDR,XDcamHD,XDcamEX,D9 etc
FCS,AE,Combustion,LiquidSilver,Vegas,Edius,
G5,MBP,Vista64,XP

[Misha Aranyshev]

Thanks for the link. So merging clips in timeline automatically puts the merged clip into a project. Fine.

How do I select clips to merge without resorting to mouse?
What is a keyboard shortcut for “Merge Clips”?
Will it always add “- Merged” to my clip names?
How can I control what Bin does the merged clip go to?

[Dennis Radeke]

All good feature requests to file here:

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform