Andy Lewis
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[Tero Ahlfors] ”
It’s using internal 32-bit floating point math when doing colour changes. It has nothing to do with the actual bit depth of the footage and it doesn’t make bad formats better.”I realise it doesn’t make bad formats better. I’m saying that conversion to Prores will make no difference to the eventual bit depth at which colour is processed.
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Doesn’t lumetri handle colour in 32-bit float? Surely this means that there is no colour space advantage in converting to Prores.
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Probably too late but I am based in HK (have been for 10 years). Not sure how you’d go about it in the abstract but you could get in touch with me. 🙂
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[Andrew Kimery] “Again, not in front PPro but I’m pretty sure you can copy/paste setting to multiple videos. Not sure about adding multiple settings to the same video.”
I don’t think so. I’d be very happy to be wrong though – it would certainly save me some time.
[Andrew Kimery] “[andy lewis] “7. Allow extension of clip markers within Premiere.”
Option-click on the Marker and you can drag it out to extend it.”
Only with timeline markers, not clip markers.
I’d forgotten all about quick view and frame view. I remember summers being longer and that it always snowed at Christmas though.
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Prelude will do a very good job of this. Unfortunately, nearly every project I work on starts with audio sync in Pluraleyes and you can’t bring an xml into Prelude.
I still sometimes log interviews in Prelude using just the camera audio (if you bring clips into Prelude while the Premiere sequence is open you can watch the comments appear in Premiere – you don’t even need to save / import).
Like a lot of things adobe – works great, seems designed for limited use cases.
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Just to update this:
The solution I outlined above actually doesn’t work.
– If you press play (spacebar) in trim mode, you can’t toggle trim type without stopping playback
– If you press play around in trim mode you can toggle trim type while the playhead loops but this is because you have been taken out of trim mode.
– If you are out of trim mode, the only way to get looped play around is to turn on ‘loop’ (figures). With loop turned on, if you have in and out points on the timeline, all playback is between in and out (!), even worse, when the playhead gets to the end of the sequence it loops back to the start. Has there ever been a more useless and irritating timeline feature? The problem could be mitigated by including some kind of swear detector that automatically turns loop off.I just tested PPro 2015 and this is all still the case.
PPro’s dynamic trimming and minimal trim mode window is such a nice feature. How strange to (clearly) put so much effort into something, to have it so fundamentally broken by such simple interface problems. As it stands, dynamic trimming is faster and more effective if you are not in trim mode. Even then, it involves frustrating workarounds (turning loop on and off every time you use trim).
It’s still possible that I am the idiot here and there is something I’m missing. Or maybe everyone’s way of approaching a task is different and I am somehow an outlier.
So here is a question to those using dynamic trimming with keyboard shortcuts – do you stop playback in order to change the trim type? Are you not changing trim type all the time? How can you stand it?
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Render and output is certainly an important function of NLEs but in my opinion it is not as critical as playback and latency while editing. I tried FCPX in the early days and didn’t really go far enough to know how I felt about the magnetic timeline etc. because it was unusably laggy.
Does anyone have a comparison (even anecdotal) about FCPX and PPro in terms of playback and UI responsiveness these days?
for example:
– Number of multicam tracks of 1080p prores that will play simultaneously with or without basic filters like a primary colour correction
– latency when hitting play / stop (Even back in the PPro version 5 days – it was more responsive than FCP7 which always seemed to me to have about 1/10th of a second lag) -
I mean that from what I’ve read, no one is sure what the Radeon R9 M370X actually is or how it performs. It might be more powerful than the previous GPU or it might be less powerful (but with better battery life or something). It wouldn’t be the first time that apple have sacrificed speed for something else. I would wait for benchmarks.
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I’d wait and see what the GPU is like.
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I got better tape but not in time to test it properly. In the end I put rubber bath mats over the (short) cable runs and carpet underlay from Ikea under the green screen. This stuff:
https://www.ikea.com/hk/en/catalog/products/40227879/
It worked really well – better than using tape. You could use it as scrim as well!