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The Project Manager and workflow
Hi,
I am an old FCP editor who like many is now making the switch to Premiere Pro. I love the ability to edit native MTS files without transcoding but it seems there is no way to offline your clips. I want to rename my clips, mark in and out points, drag them to the timeline and export only the portions of the clips that I want. When I create a trimmed project it exports the full length clip not making note of any in and out points. I have followed many tutorials online that show that it is possible to do this but it flat out doesn’t work in CS5. I also went to a forum on adobe.com and their response to one thread was that PP is a non-destructive editor and doesn’t touch your original files This is a huge problem if I we don’t want to transcode but want to only keep the good portions of our clips. I am wondering if anyone can recommend a good workflow for trimming out unwanted portions of AVCHD clips without transcoding to another format. If not which format is best? There is no AppleProRes in premiere.
Thanks for any assistance,
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This won’t address your most important points – but I do think/agree media management in Premiere leaves a lot to be desired. Many of your issues are issues I wish there were answers to as well. Sometimes I have projects that rely on clips from 10 or 20 disk images and I too would like to copy the key clips out – clips imported into a project.
Regarding ProRes – it’s a $50 add-on. It’s called either Motion 5 or Compressor 4.
While, even without FCPX, I still find myself using those applications – the $50 to get ProRes alone was worth it. Plenty of companies charge a lot more for access to their codecs so even if you never plan on using them (one or the other will suffice) – you get ProRes 422 and 4×4 for use in CS5/5.5 – works like a charm!
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