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Selection tool access size
I’ve been transitioning from FC to CS6 for the past few months on some rather sizable project, and it is working out very well. I’m looking for advice and suggestions re: some of the functions.
Often, I am looking to change transition rate or other things using the selection tool at a small time value. Before I can get the tool to actually allow me to select(as opposed to the shorten or lengthen the clip function), I need to zoom in “a lot” to get the transition point large enough to select it. Is there a way to allow me to select a 1 sec transition point without zooming in so much?
When I change the length of a clip in the time-line it gives me the amount of addition or subtraction. I would prefer to see new duration. Is there a setting to change this?
There are a lot of index,.cfa and.pek files generated. These files are clustered in w/ the source footage. To help keep things tidy, are folks setting up separate folders for those reference type files, and if so, how are you porting them to those folders?
I do a lot of on location editing, and tend to move projects from hard drive to hard drive. Have best practices been established for maintaining access to moved files and projects? Within that question is a future request for the Final Cut type hint of where an unlinked file was, as a guide as to where it might be on a different drive.
As always, I appreciate the collective wisdom and guidance of the Cow.
Thanks,
Jim
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To edit the transition duration without having to zoom in you can just double clic it, and then establish the new duration on the window that will open with the transition controls.
An easy way of zoom in and out is to hold ALT and use the scroll on your mouse, this makes really easy to go in and out really fast.The files that Premiere generates next to your media contains some basic clip info, like waveform information and things like that. You can keep them, so opening the project is faster, but is not really important.
To avoid getting lost, this is the folder structure I use
>Project Name
>Footage
>Cam 1
>Cam 2
>B roll
>Audio
>FX
>ProjIn the proj folder I keep the .pproj project and .aep in case I use After Effects too.
Premiere will create 3 folders next to your project where the render files and others will be created.Whenever a file is unlinked you can see the last location where it was, that can give you an idea of where it was.
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