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Quiet in here…
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The presets when setting up a sequence in Premiere Pro are there to optimize playback. Whenever mixing footage with different codecs/resolutions/framerates I choose the preset of the footage that I have the most of. You can also customize your sequence settings after selecting the preset if it’s not exactly what you want. A single true open timeline with just selecting resolution and framerate would be great but this method doesn’t bother me. I’ve mixed DSLR, XDCAM HD, XDCAM EX, AVCHD, DVCPRO HD, and RED with different framerates and resolutions on the same timeline and haven’t had any problems.
Dennis
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I’m playing a little dumb, but it really does look awful.
If software had PR handlers – they would be screaming.It completely confuses the issue of what Premiere actually is – a hackneyed editor of decade old codecs, or a blade sharp contemporary editor with realtime Avid style JKL trimming that is as fun as you imagine it might be?
either way – any sane person would freak out when presented with the premiere options – it looks awful.DV? seriously? three versions of it? **Tape DV**??
As PPRO 6 primary sequence options in 2013?that is just freaky, weird and embarrassing.
And why don’t they have an intermediate codec anyway?
https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics
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I’m kinda spoiled from over a decade of using Sony Vegas and usually sound design and mix as I cut picture – this was extremely painful in CS6 – in Windows version I found it took too long just to stop the playhead using the spacebar or JKL. The timeline also felt very clunky and small, like I would be zooming in and out constantly just to make cuts etc. Much more than even FCP7. Also the myriad of dialog boxes – for instance, we had 4 tracjs on audio with each video clip and the sound guy really screwed up on the set when sending the boom and lag to the camera – meaning no consistency as far as what track the mics were on from clip to clip – in Premiere you have to right click and select audio channels and you can disable the unused ones, in this same window there is a preview button but it was always greyed out so you have to turn of channels then go back and listen then if that didn’t work go back into the dialog box again. Optionally you can just unlink and kill the tracks you don’t want etc. But I found it unusable to try to mix, normalize or get clean dialog on the timeline – I guess you can send the cut to Audition and do the work there but an extra step when you just want to get through the cut with clean audio.
Conversely, in FCPX you have this beautiful audio tab that has all 4 channels right there to scrub, demo and just simply uncheck the bad tracks – you can also quickly fix volume. EQ and noise in the same window with just a couple of clicks – even before you start editing! Brilliant and even better than Vegas.
I was forced to use Premiere on the last gig and swear I will never use it again for anything and will pass on future jobs that require its use. There are some cool things about CS6 – the bins, scrubbable thumbnails at huge sizes and Media Browser all help when checking out footage – but they pale incomparison to FCPX and Keyword Collections etc.
Lance Bachelder
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To clarify – it was really the John Davidson videos that changed my mind about FCPX – it was a revelation! I now have the previous doc I was cutting in Premiere living in FCPX and set-up 100% in Davidson fashion and it rocks. The use of Compound Clips as Comps is just insane and why has no one else thought of this? Everything about his videos is truly revolutionary and once you put it into practice it kinda makes EVERY other NLE seem stupid. The light goes on and you realize why Apple did what they did and how it fully utilizes all the great features of OSX.
Thanks John Davidson! Apple owes you a couple of thousand shares of stock! I now believe FCPX will become the go to NLE here in Hollywood and elsewhere very soon.
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
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[Lance Bachelder] “I now believe FCPX will become the go to NLE here in Hollywood and elsewhere very soon.
“righto.
https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics
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I don’t believe it. The NLE space isn’t Highlander. No one’s going to come together around 1 platform, or even 2. Everyone isn’t going to move to a Mac, and not everyone like some of the core concepts behind FCPX- and that’s fine. It’s great to have choice and competition in the space- otherwise no one is compelled to improve.
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It isn’t Highlander.. it’s Star Wars, and even though it’s been stuck in a murky swamp for a couple of years, a newer, sleeker, more powerful version is emerging…. dressed in black and ready to kick some A_______
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California
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