very important issue with selecting multiple tracks

[Mike Velte]

I’m either being a complete spastic (which is likely) or something is fundamentally wrong with Premier Pro…

Let’s have a little Avid/Adobe fun here.

Pro cannot lift or extract multiple tracks. It can do lift/extract to all tracks, by nesting one sequence in another sequence.
I cant imagine the need to lift/extract two video clips, but then again my range is red dirt south of Kansas and north of Texas…
It is quite possible that Pro can accomplish what you need using a slightly different workflow, like turnring a track output off. After all, the Avid apps seem just as strange to many Pro folks as Pro must seem to you.

[Victoria Ellis]

Right…
This is the exact situation: we shoot a 28min ish section of chat for a current affairs type programme we produce. It’s pseudo-live, so theoretically we don’t need to edit anything out. And over the top of the raw footage go straps/captions with phone numbers, email addresses etc. We have to produce about 4 of these a week, and so to make things quicker in Avid, we copy the most recent timeline, and jsut delete the footage and insert the new programme footage, leaving the straps alone, so that we don’t have to fiddle about with them too much.
So if when i watch this show for edit points (which there invariably are when the topic is contraversial) and i come across a section that i need to take out, in Avid i would mark in, mark out and cut, so the video, audio and strap tracks were cut at the same time just like that. Simple. But when I try to do this in PP, I can’t and it is EXTREMELY frustrating.
I’ve actually just thought about putting the straps in their own timeline, and nesting that in the programme timeline, and then cutting all the tracks….is this what you meant?!
Thanks,
Victoria

[Dan Plonsker]

If I understand correctly, you want to delete part of the timeline in all tracks. On P6.5 this can be done using the multiple razor tool. it’ll cut all tracks and than you can delete them all at once. I guess this tool is also in PP.

[Victoria Ellis]

Hmm…that makes sense. I can actually try this out at the moment because I’m trying to copy a project off a rather slow network…anyway.
If I use the multiple razor tool I could cut multiple tracks and then get rid of it. Lovely!!
Thanks for all your help.
Might I be able to ask another question?! Is it possible to centre both channels of a stereo track? (Yet another rather important issue!)
Regards,
Victoria

[Mike Velte]

Is it possible to centre both channels of a stereo track? (Yet another rather important issue!)

The audio mixer has a Pan knob to adjust the relationship between stereo tracks.

[Tom Scoville]

Hi All,

You had my curiousity peaked on this one so I dug in the manual and found the answer-according to Adobe. Looks like the multiple razor tool is no longer in PP but if you hold down the shift key you will cut all unlocked clips at once.

Hope this helps,

Tom S

[Steven L. gotz]

It is not that the tool is not there, they just cut down on the number of tools in the toolbox by using modifier keys.

Steven
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[Victoria Ellis]

Doesn’t this just move the position of one audio track in relation to the other, rather than actually making both tracks identical…?

[Victoria Ellis]

Yes. Tried this and it works…how then do i cut several but not all tracks?! Sorry – I’m being incredibly picky, but it is irritating when layers above those you want to cut are cut too…makes the timeline messy!

[Victoria Ellis]

Would you happen to have a really good list of shortcuts and modifiers then…?!