[Alex Kuzelicki]

Hi Frank,

Thanks for your help.

I’m on the very latest edition of Adobe After Effects.
My OS is Yosemite 10.10.5.
I don’t think it’s a drive issue as nothing else is playing up from my laptop, and the external Lacie Rugged Drive I use to store the video files works on my machine and, at least one other computer I’ve tested it on, with no noticeable problems.

Hope that helps you help me. 🙂

Cheers,

ALEX

[Alex Kuzelicki]

Hey Robin,

I had a similar problem with P2 footage awhile ago. Posted here – https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/3/968671 – but, though there were some helpful suggestions, nothing worked.

In the end, unfortunately, the only thing that worked was an old copy of Final Cut Pro 7 – which had no problem syncing up sound and video, and transcoding in half the time of Media Encoder. It’s bizarre, but I suspect it’s one of those ‘random bugs’ that pop up and wreak havoc on our workflows from time to time. Just to make life interesting.

If you have access to an old FCP7, try that – I have a feeling it will work.

Cheers,

ALEX

[Alex Kuzelicki]

Hey Paul,

Yes, did that test too. Tried both ingesting the clips natively and also transcoding them to another format (ProRes). Still no audio.

Can’t imagine why FCP7 can read the audio but nothing else, so far, can?

Thanks for your suggestion though. Appreciated.

ALEX

[Alex Kuzelicki]

Hey Tero,

Thanks for the reply. Did actually try that but that’s not working either. Has me totally stumped!

Appreciate your help though.

Cheers,

ALEX

[Alex Kuzelicki]

Hey Ann,

Thanks for the suggestion, only I want to drag out the markers on the actual clips (sitting on the timeline)- the same way you can drag out the handles for a marker along the top of the timeline.

There must be a way. 🙂

Appreciated though.

Cheers,

ALEX

[Alex Kuzelicki]

Haha, all good Alex.

🙂

[Alex Kuzelicki]

Hey Alex,

Thanks for that suggestion… only I can’t find it in the Prefs. Mind telling me exactly where? Have looked it over a few times but am no seeing it.

Sorry if it’s right in front of my eyes, haha.

Thanks in advance,

ALEX

[Alex Kuzelicki]

Hey Dennis,

Just in case anyone’s interested. In the Keyboard Shortcuts > Edit > Label menu you can assign shortcuts to the different colors, and they will apply in both the Project window and on the Timeline.

Pretty happy now. 🙂

The only weirdness is that the names of the colors don’t match the actual colors in any way whatsoever. In fact, some of the names don’t even match the default names in the Label Colors Preferences. I’m guessing that’s something that’s been overlooked from previous versions (when the color names were more straight forward eg. green, red, yellow, etc).

No big deal though, a simple matter of deduction by trial and error and I got my green, red and orange color shortcuts.

Hopefully, this might help someone else somewhere out there.

Thanks again, Dennis.

Cheers,

ALEX

[Alex Kuzelicki]

Hey Dennis,

Thanks for your reply and info. I watched your video and you have some great stuff in there. The Search Bins are an awesome feature that I can see would come in really handy, in lots of situations. Played around with them for awhile and was impressed with the possibilities.

Unfortunately, all the workflows I could come up with involved having the time to enter in some sort of Metadata, for the Search Bin to search for and then create the bin containing the desired clips – of course! But, for me, the amount of keystrokes to do that is actually the same or (if I go without an assigned shortcut) more than if I did my current ‘Right-click > Label > choose a color’ method.

I’m trying to cut down on keystrokes! I’m currently editing live-action previz on an action film and we just don’t have the time to spend entering in Metadata (as much as we’d like to). Everything must be edited and revised so quickly that the best system is to label good takes as green as we go. Then we have a quick visual way to identify the preferred takes – especially useful if another editor wants to do a revision or alternate cut.

The pace we work at doesn’t allow for much else, which is why I’d LOVE for there to be a way to assign a keyboard shortcut to a Label color. Then it would be one click instead of three to label good, bad and alternate takes. That would be such a simple and incredibly useful shortcut, I’m surprised there doesn’t seem to be a way to do it. I searched around on these forums and it seems there used to be a way (in PPro CS 5.5 at least) but it’s no longer available.

If anyone does know how though please, please let me know. Or Adobe, if you’re listening – please help make labelling clips quicker for people in a rush, like me, haha.

Thanks again for your help, Dennis. Great stuff.

ALEX

[Alex Kuzelicki]

Hey,

I know your post is years old but I was trying to do the same thing, label clips as a color with a single shortcut, but I can’t find any options to do that in the Keyboard Shortcuts in PPro CC 2014.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

ALEX