Alex Hawkins
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Shawn sorry my bad. I posted too hastily.
Yes this is something that they have fixed in 5.5. I just realised you were on 5.
5 imports all sequences as the project name plus an increment whereas 5.5 will import all sequences with their discreet name intact.
Is this enough of a reason to upgrade?
Alex Hawkins
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Shawn I just did this the other day with 18 sequences and it worked fine.
I just opened up AME and went File/Add Premiere Pro Sequence and they all came in with the correct name and were automatically outputted to my default folder I have selected in the preferences.
Then it was just a matter of highlighting them all and changing the codec format to the preset I had already made.
Is this really not working for you?
Alex Hawkins
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Have used FCP7.
Haven’t used FCPX.
Maybe never will.
Why are you all still here?
Because this is the most entertaining, engaging and compelling forum on the Cow right now and is always my first stop when logging on to the net each morning.
Alex Hawkins
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[Peter Corbett] “I have since read there are editors who edit on a native timeline, then cut and paste the sequence into an SDI-based third-party card timeline at the last minute to do grading and checking. I’m not mad about this method of working.”
Hi Peter, I have an AJA LHi card and occasionally do this due to similar problems as yourself. I get laggy playback and scrubbing alot of the time on an AJA sequence. The native Adobe sequences are beautiful but then you don’t get any monitor output.
From everything I’ve been reading lately there does seem to be some issues with PPro on a newer Mac and outputting with a 3rd party hardware card. Changing the Audio hardware default device in preferences to Digital Out or System Out helps with audio performance in playback.
How was SMPTE for you? I saw the Digistor FCPX demo and was singularly unimpressed. It looked more prosumer than I had even origianlly thought. (Can I type in a T/c point and get there?) Mind you it was standing room only…
On another note, what are you archiving to these days? I had a good chat to one of the guys from Powermedia (do you know of them) about archiving and he was trying to lead me down the LTO-5 path from Quantum. Do you have any thoughts/experience with them?
Cheers,
Alex Hawkins
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Gday Mark, thanks for making the effort to post this. Very helpful.
I know you probably know this but there are quite a few hidden keystroke abilities in PPro that are not included in any menu. Basically you have to go through the keyboard shortcuts and assign a keystroke to them. For instance there is an assignable keystroke for your number 10 above.
Another nice feature is replace clip on timeline simply by holding alt and dragging the clip from either the bin or source monitor straight on to the timeline over the clip you want to replace, and when doing this the new clip retains all the previous clips effects and various parameters such as speed and audio levels and such. Very handy.
Don’t forget that even though you can’t have more than one project open at a time you can import other projects into your current one, with the option to import the whole project or just selected timelines.
Most of the other things you mentioned are quite valid and the whole Lift/Extract thing is a bit messy and almost superfluous really. Did FCP7 have back paste?
Anyway glad to hear the switch has been worth it for you so far. Things will only get better from here on in.
Cheers,
Alex Hawkins
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Sorry Ann I’m not sure what you mean. I know earlier versions of PPro had a clean up button in the project panel, but I am on CS5.5 and that button no longer exists.
Alex Hawkins
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Hi Jim, I see you got no joy on your post.
I too, tend to browse through clips in icon view and have exactly the same problem.
I do not know how to fix it.
Alex Hawkins
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Cliff the thing to remember is that while FCP’s audio mixing was more or less clip based, PPro’s is definitely track based. Generally speaking.
Alex Hawkins
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[Tom Daigon] “come on over to PrP. The waters fine. Actually its amazing . Nothing but blue skies and a company that gets it. Free phone support with folks who know the product. And tidal waves of new users to will act as catalysts to a software company THAT LISTENS!”
Ditto That.
Plus, I for one, would just love to have you on the forum.
Alex Hawkins
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Thanks Dexter for all the info. I have been through all these issues with the driver and updating from 10.6.7 to 10.6.8 but this was a problem before this. Plus I have a GTX285 not a Quadro 4000.
The whole thing seems to me to be some sort of memory or caching issue, as like Keith said, it gets worse the bigger your project gets.
I have a thread going on the Adobe forum as well but no real answers yet. I think at the moment it might be just a fact of life with some MacPros. Don’t ask me why.
Alex Hawkins
Canberra, Australia