Andy Lewis
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This whole subscription thing is a bitter blow made worse by just how good Premiere CC is.
I did some paid jobs on 5.5 and then on 6 and both times got initially excited, then went back to FCP7. Ppro felt beautifully engineered and clunky clunky clunky.
Premiere CC does not feel like this. The long list of small UI improvements adds up to much more than the sum of its parts. The talk of it being FCP8 is not giving it anywhere near enough credit. If Apple had released this 2 years ago we would have all been stunned and Avid would have been very worried indeed.
It’s not just that they’ve incorporated loads of nice touches from FCP7’s interface (although they obviously have). It’s that in so many ways they’ve designed something that works better. To pick one example, after 3 months on CC I now don’t have to think about the keyboard shortcuts for expand/reduce audio tracks, expand/reduce video tracks, maximise/minimise all tracks, because I use them so much. Combined with the endless flexibility of window layouts, it really feels like the software gets out of the way and lets you focus on what you’re doing.
Then with the stuff that has been great in Ppro for a long time – like keyframing.
SIGH.
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You’re hired.
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No problem. It’s happened before so I think it’s partly my scattergun writing style.
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“Not sure why it’s so complicated” – I meant I’m not sure why Adobe make it so complicated to extend a marker.
Haven’t used labels in AE but sounds good.
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Justin, not sure if I understood you right but you can make marker comments visible on the timeline by extending markers.
Open the “markers” panel and change the out point to give the marker duration – once it’s extended a little bit you can drag the in and out on the timeline. Not sure why it’s so complicated.
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Agreed. It would also be nice if that (excellent) marker viewer could display all of the clip markers in the timeline.
Like FCP, it seems that PPro treats clip markers as secondary in importance to timeline markers (In FCP you can’t view clip markers during playback for example).
Maybe this is because if you do everything in timelines (as I do) you are not using the software “properly”. The proper way is 3-point editing so organisation is done in the browser/project area and timelines are just for final assembly.I want to annotate clips in timelines and have that information follow the clip. It seems like no NLE is really enthusiastic about me working that way.
How many out there are timeline editors? Are we a small minority?
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Great. Thanks!
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Thanks Peter,
That’s what I’m talking about though. Adobe stuff about this on the web always starts with someone making a multicam sequence (as he does in that linked video).
I am nesting synced clips in the sequence I already have and then enabling multicam. Is there any downside to working in this way?
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I’m new to PPro (from FCP). I’m editing footage from 2 cameras with separate sound and everything is already in synced sequences. I’ve played around a little bit with multicam, I’m just waiting for them to fix the bug.
Each time I’ve tried multicam I’ve:
1. Highlighted the clips in the timeline
2. Nest
3. Right click “multicam enable”Done.
Is that correct?I ask because every time I read about multicam on forum posts or in adobe’s literature there is talk of making “a multicam sequence.” If it is fine to use multicam without bothering, I just wonder why this isn’t promoted as a feature. Or maybe there is something I’ve missed. I’d hate to discover what that is at the end of a project.
If there is no problem using multicam in this way I will simply nest and enable multicam for each interview segment independently. Seems like a nice step forward from FCP (when they get it working.)
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And in answer to the OP; I don’t use FCPX but if adobe continue with the current rental model and the next Motion update is amazing, I will have another look.