Bill Celnick
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Probably not what you want to hear, but I edit dialog in Izotope RX10 (Advanced) – in addition to a repair assistant, there are many tools for cleaning up audio – I rather like their “Dialog Isolate” module that has worked wonders.
I believe they have a 7 day free trial, so if you are not getting the results you want, take a look there.
https://www.izotope.com/en/shop/rx-11-advanced/
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It was part of my Linkedin Learning monthly membership – about $25 per month – you can quit or downgrade to free as needed.
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regarding training, a few years ago I took Ashley Kennedy’s on-line class which is part of Linked-in Learning – I highly recommend it.
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/premiere-pro-essential-training-2022-2024
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I’ve used mainly Premiere Pro and its earlier versions for over 20 years, and DaVinci Resolve for about a year. Once I got comfortable with Resolve, the editing was easy enough, and less buggy then each new release of Premiere, and it’s nice not to have to pay Adobe monthly. So, my advice would be Resolve over Premiere.
Only thing that keeps me on Premiere is that I know it reflexively, and have invested in some plugins that I don’t want to buy again.
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I fully agree with Mad’s suggestion of the Ashley Kennedy course on LinkedIn Learning.
I learned Premiere back in the late 1990s from self teaching and CD based tutorials of the day, but I took a 10 year detour to FCP 7, and when I returned to Premiere a few years ago I found that I needed to refresh my memory, and I spend a couple of days taking her class – I learned so much.
Because of changes with new releases and the fact that I really use the tip of the iceberg in most apps, I’ll probably take her most recent class this winter to refresh my knowledge. I’m also using Resolve, and this is what I expect to be my main editing app down the line.
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sorry for the late reply…vaguely recall a few years back Mercalli did have a Mac version, but it was a stand-alone application, not a plug-in, and it wouldn’t work with the M1 chips when they were released. Things may have changed.
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agree that any real helpful suggestion would require seeing exactly what you’re working with, but, lets assume that some of this footage was okay – I might try first to use all of this video that was good, and then have to make a gut decision on each of the unstable shots – with all the flaws is the unstable footage more or less interesting then the wide shot you mentioned?
I’ve used Warp Stabilizer, Mercalli, and DaVinci Resolve at times to stabilize – with Mercalli you can try different options, maybe you can make just enough of your shots good enough to use.
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I’d also suggest transcoding those Zoom files to ProRes before the edit, and see if that makes a difference.
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Agreed – I record all of my narration via Audition and import back into Premiere as a wav as well.
I think I did it this way since before Premiere had VO capabilities and saw no need to change my process.
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I’m running Premiere (and Resolve) on an even less powerful computer (2021 Mac Mini, 16GB Ram and M1 (not max or pro). I find that it handles 2 or 3 tracks of 4K video quite well.
I notice differences in performance when I use a San Disk SSD Extreme as my editing drive compared to my Samsung T7 SSD – don’t have the specs handy on the drives, but the performance is better with the Samsung – smoother timeline playback for sure.