David Dean
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Okay, thank you. It’s been decades since I was an assistant, and I was there during the entire editing process, in proximity to the editor. And somehow during my entire career I’ve never had a job where I HAD an assistant, so I didn’t know what the current job description is. I’m grateful for your responses.
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Hi, John – thanks for the quick reply. No, we both work with multichannel audio and multiclips, so we already deactivate the audio channels we don’t want before copying and pasting (so yes, tracks ARE targeted). I was not familiar with pancake timelines, though, and just looked up a few YouTube videos about it. I’m definitely going to try it for our show, and maybe this will help my partner as well. Most of the videos just used the technique to move entire clips into the primary timeline, but one I saw did go into using in and out points by placing the timeline in the source monitor. I hope I can use a multiclip view as well, but I will definitely explore the technique. Thanks!
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Figured. Thanks.
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Thank you so much for your detailed response, Merlin. Is there any way I can respond to all of your points outside of the forum? What I can immediately tell you is that I am one of two editors on a PBS series, and my partner in Nashville has a brand-new iMac, more powerful than mine, and he has been having exactly the same problems with PP2019. I can also tell you that I got so frustrated with the two-year-old 1080 project I had recently opened with 2019 and had the same lagging issues, that I exported the re-edited sequence as an XML file, opened up the last saved version of the project that was cut using 2018, imported the new sequence, linked the video, and it played absolutely flawlessly. I’ll be very happy to answer all your other queries, but I’m convinced that v.13 is a serious factor in this consistent problem.
Again, sincere thanks for your time and expertise.
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Hi, all – I’ve just gotten off the phone with Apple, and no, it isn’t possible with a different drive formatting.
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Good morning, Trevor – thank you for your quick response. I will proceed with this relinking process if I need to. But taking Premiere out of the equation, is there indeed a technical reason why I can’t rename a second, identical G-Drive HD with the same number of characters (13, plus two spaces) as the source G-Drive? The only differences appear to be that the second drive is ExFAT (and it has to be), and maybe that the source drive was formatted on a High Sierra computer and I only have Sierra on my system. Thank you!
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Yes, the multiple speakers is the effect I’m trying to do. (The extra pun of “Caan” saying “can” would be a private joke…)
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Thank you! Perhaps I wasn’t clear enough – I’m looking for clips of individual words from film clips that, edited together, will sound like full sentences. That’s the challenge of the search.
I’m very grateful for the reply and suggestion.
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Okay, now I’m really thrown. It’s working now. Match-framing a clip from the timeline, and/or double-clicking on a clip in the browser, lets me see the audio tracks of the individual clip. The exact same procedure that I used 20 minutes ago when I made the screen recording – which called up the timeline’s mixer and not the clip’s – is now working as I expect.
I have no idea. Thanks for your time.
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If there are four channels of audio on the clip, and I only want the one with the lav mic, I want to be able to see which of the four channels has the audio I want, so I can just cut, say, A3 of the clip onto A1 of the timeline. Right now I don’t have that option, and I have to cut in the clip and remove the unwanted tracks in the timeline. That can’t be right.
In answer to Greg, that’s exactly what I’ve been doing. Double-clicking on a clip in the browser opens it in the source monitor, and clicking on the Audio Clip Mixer tab, even after I’ve played it a bit in Source, only brings up the timeline’s 12 tracks. I even tried dragging a clip into Source rather than double-clicking, and I still cannot reveal the audio mixer of the single clip I’ve opened. I’ve actually just made a small screen recording of me demonstrating that, but it doesn’t look like I can upload a video.
I’m very grateful for the responses, gentlemen. Thank you.