Dennis Radeke
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At a basic level, our goal was to go from ‘worst to first.’ Can’t say that we’ve done that for all users but we’ve certainly heard from many Avid editors that our trimming is at least very decent for them. Like most things in our NLE world, it is almost always somewhat subjective to your way of working! That said, we support keyboard + mouse style trims, asymetric trims, multi-select trims, etc.
[Michael Hancock] “1. Go to next edit/previous edit and enter trim mode in one keystroke”
Up/Down arrow when in the trim mode.
[Michael Hancock] “2. Activate trim mode, activate track with keyboard.”
“T” key will enter you into trim mode. Always encourage users to enter the keyboard shortcuts and type a word like ‘trim’ to look for available shortcuts
[Michael Hancock] “3. Select Trim A/B/AB via direct keystroke”
Honesty is the best policy – not sure what you mean by this one so will assume that we don’t have it.
[Michael Hancock] ”
4. This one is subjective and may not make sense, but I find selecting trim points in Avid to be much easier and more solid than in Premiere when using a mouse.”I agree on this one to a point. THis is the one preference in Premiere Pro that I would have different. If you go to preferences>trim and check the top box, I find the trimming modes to handle and switch the way you expect. My opinion but when I show most people they agree.
Hope this helps,
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The “Free” Avid codec is a quicktime wrapped version and as Walter mentioned may have issues.
True DNxHD has an MXF extension which is proper.
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[Zhang Junhao] “Probably Adobe paying CNN to adopt Anywhere ?”
No.
[Zhang Junhao] “And how does it interface with a Newsroom Automation system ?”
They have their own development infrastructure in many cases.
Dennis – Adobe guy
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[Chris Kenny] “We’ve seen a couple of short-form projects use Premiere, but no features, nobody even really asking us about it. No features cut in FCP X yet either”
Well, there are plenty being done. We did some stories from last years Sundance and we know quite a few for SXSW. As for major features, we’ve spoken about what we can say, but most people know that there are major features getting behind Premiere Pro.
It’s an interesting time as we see different approaches vetted out in the marketplace. I think there is room for all.
Dennis – Adobe guy
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[Oliver Peters] “There are tons of plug-ins that really choke PPro regardless of the GPU.”
This is because they do not utilize the GPU by and large and therefore go through the CPU. In the future, I hope to see many more plug-in companies utilize the new ability to tap into the GPU through Premiere Pro and accelerate them.
[Oliver Peters] “Premiere really doesn’t make as much use of it as you think.”
Well, I guess it depends on how you look at it. The approach is about balance. I said this back in 2010 when CS5 was out via a blog post, but I’m not going to go digging for it! 😉
CPU’s decode video and create playback. GPUs are used for FX including basic transforms such as scale (picture-in-picture), position, rotation, etc. Any Premiere Pro effect or transition that is hardware acclerated makes a big difference in total performance. This includes big things like almost all color correctors including Speedgrade LUTs. If you are doing work with very little effects work, then you’re absolutely right.
Dennis
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Hi Alexander,
Yes, I’m employed at Adobe and sometimes assume that most people already know that – sorry.
Glad to hear that its working for you. What I heard was that we do support compressed DNX and uncompressed alpha. Bottom line, if it’s working for you, great!
Dennis – Adobe guy
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I pinged engineering and they replied that we don’t support alpha channels on DNx material at the moment.
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You can always get the updates directly from the website too.
https://www.adobe.com/downloads/updates.html
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Hi Alexander,
It should indeed work. Out of curiosity, have you tried another codec instead? Just for troubleshooting.
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Craig – at least you are consistent in hoping that Adobe will fail.