Why Not Default Export Source Range to “Entire Sequence?” Why must snapping be enabled in general prefs?

[Reid Vanvoris]

Dear Dave,

Thanks for responding.

What I’m referring to are 2 things. First, in Preferences>General there is a check box that says to “enable snapping when snapping is turned on.” The “snapping” on/off button is in the track header of the Premiere Pro timeline. It looks like a small horseshoe magnet. When this button is active, the playhead snaps to the head and tail of clips on the timeline and to markers. If the Preferences>General check box is not checked, no snapping occurs, no matter if the track header button is active or not. The check box inside preferences>general seems redundant and even awkward, since if I enable snapping in the track header, I want snapping to occur. I didn’t do it by accident. I wasn’t kidding. I really wanted snapping to function, but if it’s not checked inside preferences>general then it does not snap, until it is checked. Seems to me like the preferences check box is not needed and a little annoying at times. My question is, why is it even there? What’s it for?

Now the “Select Range>Entire Sequence” issue is in File>Export>Media. The media encoder window export source range is defaulted to “sequence in to out.” Unless most people are outputting just portions of their projects, sort of as a test, prior to outputting the entire project, I think the source range should be defaulted to “entire sequence,” as I find myself having to change this setting to export my finished projects every time before I export. What say you?

Any one from Adobe have answers?

Reid VanVoris
e-Mail: r1108@hotmail.com

[Reid Vanvoris]

Wow Dave,

I found your reply to be unnecessarily rude.

Not be be chippy right back at you, but do you actually edit anything, ever? Snapping is very convenient. It does need the option of being turned on and off occasionally. There is a button for that in the Timeline interface and a keyboard shortcut. I was just wondering why it’s defaulted to “off” in general preferences and needs to be activated for the on/off function in the Timeline to work. I was just wondering why that pref existed and whether or not I might be missing a functionality that might help me by knowing.

I still don’t think you understand what I was asking and why, but never mind. Sorry to bother you.

Next time, if a post annoys you, please just don’t answer it.

Thanks.

Reid VanVoris
e-Mail: r1108@hotmail.com

[Michael Rothenberg]

Hey Reid, I have the same issue with the Source Range default. With later versions of AME, the setting is not even visible when you’re looking at your queue; it’s only findable when you click on the individual preset setting of each item in the queue.

Normally Adobe’s settings make sense to me but here I really don’t understand why “Entire Sequence” is not the default. It’s burned me several times, especially when I quickly post a viewing copy and later find it’s only a fragment of the cut. Ideally I’d love users to be able to set their own Source Range default in AME’s settings.

I’ve posted a feature request to Adobe and encourage you to do the same.

Mike

Michael Rothenberg
Peak Productions

[Che Broadnax]

There’s no redundancy in this snapping setting.

Snapping, without the preferences checkbox, only refers to the snapping of clips to other clips in the timeline. If you’re a drag-the-clip-around kind of editor, that’s pretty convenient.

The checkbox brings the playhead into the snapping action, so that dragging the playhead around will snap to clips heads/tails.

Different functionalities, same name.

Meanwhile, I’m peeved that every time I export I have to select “In to Out” as it defaults to work area. Frankly, the whole “work area” thing has always felt redundant to me. Why wouldn’t I just use in and out points? Why would I render the work area, when I could render in to out? It feels pretty vestigial, although, I use it from time to time in After Effects. But only because there’s no real way to mark in and out.