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What’s the point of the work area?
Hey there, another FCP user confused with an aspect of Premiere. I’m trying to determine what purpose of the Work Area is other than to define a section of the timeline to render or export?
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5 Replies
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That is the main point. To select only a portion of the entire sequence for rendering or exporting. Rendering being the biggest I would think.
Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC -
Lame, that just adds unnecessary clutter to the interface when a simple in and out selection would suffice perfectly – please correct me if I’m wrong though. Does anyone prefer to use the work area method over in and out points?
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You can mark in and outs on your timeline to mark a specific area, and then jump to the in and out using Q and W respectively. The cool thing about the render bar is how easy it is to set. Double click in the light grey strip where the bar is and it will automatically mark the section that’s filling the window or if the entire timeline is visible it will mark your entire piece and it’s ready to render. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve double clicked and it put an end point way out past the end of my timeline because I had left a stray bit of audio or a few seconds of graphic hanging out there.
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I don’t like the work area either.
I went to render out a specific section of a video
(had marked it in and out) and it was exporting the whole thing.it shouldn’t do that.
I suspect CS 6 will take care of that aspect.
Adobe has worked really hard to make it easier to use
for those of us coming from Avid / FCP -
Just turn the Work Area off.
Joseph Mastantuono
http://www.goodpost.net
Color Grading & Post Production Consulting
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