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Switching to CS5 from FCP…
I’m in the middle of switching over from Final Cut Pro to Premiere Pro by editing a project in Premiere 🙂
I love that there is no transcoding involved and that I can just drop the footage in the timeline. Saves a ton of hard drive space and less time cleaning out my hard drives to make room for projects!
Anyways, as I edit with Premiere, I have noticed some differences from Final Cut Pro and was wondering if there were any preferences or ways of changing how some of these things work.
– When ripple editing a clip to trim off the front end of the clip to somewhere in the middle specified by the CTI, after making the edit, the CTI stays in the same spot. In FCP, the CTI would move to the beginning of the ripple edited clip. It would save the extra step of pressing page up to go the beginning of the clip if the CTI would just move automatically. This is not an issue when rippling the end of the clip since the CTI is where the clip would end after the ripple edit.
– When playing through the timeline and wanting to skip to another part of the timeline by clicking in the time bar, the playback stops. It would be convenient to keep playing until you tell it to stop playing explicily (by pressing ‘k’ or space bar).
– Is there a way to show through-edits or at least to join through-edits? In FCP, when I split a clip, there are indication arrows that show that the frame before the razor cut and the frame after the razor cut are from the same clip. It’s a missed “feature.”
– When I drag a clip from the timeline into a bin, the clip shows up but the in and out points are removed. Am I doing something wrong or is there a way to keep the in and out points when moving a clip from the timeline to a bin?
– When editing a multiclip sequence, when I stop playback, the angle automatically makes a cut and switches to the angle that the multicam monitor was on before I hit play. I’m not sure why it does this at all and has been frustrating for me. Is there a way to make the angle just stay on the last selected angle?
I’m not hating on Premiere and am liking the benefits and features or Premiere like being able to make J and L edits easily without having to unlink, edit, and relink clips, native editing, thumbnails in the video track. These are mostly just little quirks and user interface preferences that I miss from FCP.
Thanks for any tips or advice you have.
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As far as I know, these are just the ways Premiere works. I use Premiere at work and Final Cut at home. There are those little differences that I think you just have to get used to.
Also, in Final cut when changing the duration of a transition, you can click on the transition, press TAB, and type the number of frames you want for your new duration. In Premiere you have to click on the transition, go up and click on the “Effect Control” tab, click on the current duration, then type in the new duration.
All small things that, when done enough times, will become large annoyances.
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