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What are the primary “gotchas” in PP CS6 coming from MC/Legacy?
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I was thinking the same thing regarding the video being for 5.5 but it seems most of the functions are still the same. Anyone know any differently?
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[Paul Neumann] “Aindreas you can use the Media Browser to navigate to any Project and then you’re given the choice to import the entire project or choose any individual sequence you’d like to import. Dynamic Link is just dreamy…”
Paul, thank you for this tip!
Just tried it and can confirm it works. You don’t need to use the media browser, the trick is selecting “import Selected Sequences” when you import. This invokes the Dynamic Link connection and brings in the sequence only. The clips on the sequence are indeed linked to the existing master clips in the master project. Excellent! 🙂
Wouldn’t have helped the other day because I was importing from a FCP7 XML, but I’ll keep this in mind for the future. I love learning things in this forum! Thanks again!
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[David Powell] “Thanks Bob! How funny, the “biggest gotcha” is standard track selection form in Avid, so what drives Walter “batty” is exactly what I’ve come to expect.”
Drives me batty too! It may work like Avid, but it’s still f’n stupid! 😉 Smart track targeting was another reason many of us moved to FCP Legacy.
It’s simple. Track targeting should by default always respect the source track, i.e. if I have video tracks 1, 2, and 3 enabled and I copy a clip from track 3, when I paste it should by default paste into track 3, not track 1. Destination should always respect source unless explicitly overridden by the user. This is UI 101 level stuff.
BTW, Adobe could implement this and if you Avid folks still wanna do the Track Toggle Tango, you’d still be free to knock yourselves out. 😉
Other things I miss:
Range selection on the timeline. Anyone know a way to do this? Super handy when dialogue cutting and I need a breath or tone. I really miss GGG.
Global link/unlink toggle on the timeline. Another big timesaver in FCP Legacy. I have that toggle mapped to the center button on my Logitech Anywhere MX and I hit it all the time (or used to).
Maximum Render Quality is another thing to watch out for. I’ve found the best way to avoid pain is to leave it unchecked. If you do use it, output slows way down, but more seriously, what you see may not be what you get. The way things appear on the timeline vs. how they render with MRQ checked depend on a number of confusing variables in both hardware and software settings. Avoid.
I have plenty of other UI gripes, but overall I’m very happy. Just finished a piece with AVCHD, ProRes, HDV (from FCP7 XML) and .jpg images all happily playing on the timeline. It was a fast turnaround and would have been impossible if transcoding were required before the edit. I love the trim tools and even though it’s not as flexible as FCPX’s Channel Configurations, PrP’s Modify Audio Channels was perfect for my needs.
There’s a lot to like in Premiere and coming from MC and FCP7 you’ll have no trouble jumping in. In a couple weeks, we can look forward to it getting ever better.
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Avid has a toggled auto-patch function that makes it much less work to patch than FCP 7. Without the auto-patch enabled though, I can see how this would start to be a chore. Guess I’ll have to get used to it and cross my fingers that the complaints got through for the next installment of PP.
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[David Lawrence] “BTW, Adobe could implement this and if you Avid folks still wanna do the Track Toggle Tango, you’d still be free to knock yourselves out. 😉 “
FWIW, patching and toggling tracks works much better in MC than it ever did in Legacy. It is super easy to select/deselect multiple tracks in one operation (shift-click/slide the mouse across the track buttons), and features like auto-patching and reset default patch means there’s little of the tedious “click-click-click-click” required in other NLE:s. The track arming behaviour makes perfect sense and is both consistent and useful, because it gives me maximum control without making any assumptions about my intentions.
In typical Avid fashion, some of these features are non-obvious to new or casual users, but totally indispensable once you learn them. Just sayin’…
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Agreed. I remember having to cut a show on 7 after having spent the last year cutting exclusively on MC and thinking how cumbersome the track selection was. Of course all the time I spent cutting on 7 before Avid I never noticed.
My hope is that PP develops closer to the Avid timeline and not to 7s.
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hey – at least I know the keyframing like the back of me hand wha?
kind of really nice to see the old style inline AE keyframe curves again.
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[Bret Williams] “Maybe Hover Scrub should actually play out the client monitor like another app I know. “
Good feature request: https://www.adobe.com/go/wish
My biggest pet peeve is having to deselect ripple or selection tools before trimming in the opposite direction. I have made my own feature request for that.
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