[Alex Udell]

Oh and the Rate Stretch tool. (the X Key)

Need a clip to to be speed adjust to fit a particular gap on the timeline? Hit X and trim the clip. Keeps the same frames viewable, but the play faster or slower depending on how much you trim. Love this one.

I think you can also temporarily mute/unmute tracks without losing renders which is a lil annoying in FCP (although you can mute clips without losing renders.

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX
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[Alex Udell]

I have really always liked the audio mixninf in Premiere Pro better than FCP. You can so so much more in the application.

Per clip Effects and mixing that move with the clip and track based mixing and fx make final master a lot easier to deal with.

Sub masters in the mixer also help out a lot.

I used to hate the whole stereo/mono track thing, but now I like it a lot.

I’ll add more as I think about it.

[Alex Udell]

Jim…

there is no uncollapse.

this is a gotcha of the workflow….

always always save a safety version of your sequence before you start dynamic linking…otherwise you get stuck.

Check your autosave projects and pull a sequence from one that was before you sent to AE….

Sorry….

Alex

[Alex Udell]

Brian,

What? Nesting = taking several layered clips and collapsing them into one editable clip on the timeline

Why? beacue it makes some complex effects easier to build. Rather than having to animate several seperate elements, you nest and animate the one…

How? CS3 and earlier: make a new sequence, cut and paste the clip you want to nest on to that sequence. then edit that new squence back to your original sequence. In CS4 an newer, select clips, right click, NEST.

Hope that helps,

Alex

[Alex Udell]

If they are going to use it for their reels…give it to them as a DATA CD/DVD with DV formatted video clips.

This can be brought into any NLE, which is what they will need if they want to prep their reel for the web.

In other words, you’re giving them raw segments they will likely be incorporating into a longer piece where the encoding for web will happen as the last stage.

Hope that helps…

Alex

[Alex Udell]

Hey Jon,

That’s a cool overview….any chance of a more step by step example?

I’d like to know more about that too…

Alex

[Alex Udell]

The hack is to find the actual render file and import that in as a clip. You could then lay it on the top layer of the nested sequence as a placeholder.
It’s not very practical though.

If you nest, open the nested sequence, and render there, then your main sequence should be using the render from the nest and not require you to render again.

Alex

[Alex Udell]

If you’re getting far along on opening the project and then it hangs, it may have it a bad piece of media.

Hopefully your media is in one place…if so…rename that folder slightly….

then try to open the project….

this should force it to open but ask you where the media is…

Offline all media and make sure the project opens.

Save AS the project

then start relinking the media in small batches….saving after each small successful batch…

eventually you will find the culprit that will make you crash….

re open last saved version, skip the file that cause the problems and relink the rest of the media…

hope that helps….

Alex

[Alex Udell]

Hi Shawn…

I know you what you mean. Shoot me a private e-mail and I’ll see who I might be able to connect you with.

Alex
audell999 (at) yahoo (dot) com

[Alex Udell]

Hi Shawn…

I understand everything that you are asking for. As I said, I’ve not used those tools in production, but I am somewhat familiar with the functions they offer. I was sort of pinging you to see what, of those capabilities, you might be looking for.

For sifting and sorting, Bridge and clip metadata could be used to find clips in the pool that editors could edit with. But beyond that I don’t have an answer that immediately comes to mind.

In both cases (Unity and FC Server) these applications are made by the manufacturer (although FC server was previously Artbox). This is not to say that a third party can’t do it, I’m just not yet aware of a third party doing this on the Adobe side yet. Of course I haven’t looked very hard.

Alex