[Derek Andonian]

You need to use the number pad, on the right side of the keyboard.

I’m not sure what the equivalent of shift z would be.

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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.”

[Derek Andonian]

That is, in fact, correct.

There’s another thread about this issue here:

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/3/925028

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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.”

[Derek Andonian]

I had a feeling it would only be a matter of time before we started to see signs of the Premiere Pro era getting underway.

I, for one, welcome our new Editing Overlords, and I do think the trust excuse is a valid reason to switch. Apple treated the rollout of X the EXACT SAME WAY they would have gone about releasing a new iGadget, and they totally disregarded the needs of their target users- and they expected everyone to just follow along because, hey, this is a shiny new product from Apple- and it’s REVOLUTIONARY!!

With an attitude like that, they don’t deserve to be an NLE standard. Even if X does get back to a widely acceptable pro level, how do we know they aren’t going to pull this same BS again at some point?

(and, I do realize X has become more capable over the past year- but that has been largely due to third-party plugins. FCPX still can’t import an FCP7 project on its own. If a plugin developer can do this, why can’t Apple?)

Adobe, on the other hand, is very interested in the needs and concerns of the Premiere Pro users, and they are totally committed to making PPro a great NLE- for professionals.

(and, unlike FCPX… Premiere Pro can open an FCP 7 project- ON ITS OWN!)

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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.”

[Derek Andonian]

Alex Udell go to the effects panel.
search “transform” (found under distort)
can you add this to an adjustment layer?

Yes, it does! Cool!

fully re-creating “cross zoom” from FCP would probably require a lot of effort to pull off, but it’s nice to know transform works on adjustment layers.

Alex Udell Optionally when you save, you can save it with Keyframes set to scale.

this means if you make and adjustment layer segment with a different duration from your original elsewhere on the timeline….then apply the preset, the keyframes should be applied proportionally based on the different duration.

Saaaweeet!! I was just thinking it would be nice if you were able to do this with presets. This will be a real timesaver.

I tried a few other effects, and noticed that Turbulant Displace also makes a nice transition effect…

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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.”

[Derek Andonian]

I don’t remember which thread it was in, but I remember one of the Adobe guys mentioning there was an update for PPro coming soon that addressed issues with AAF export. We now know it will also introduce “smart rendering”, so it should be a good update.

While getting projects over to other programs has been a weak link for Premiere, I do think it will get better soon. Adobe DID hire the Master of Interoperability, after all…

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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.”

[Derek Andonian]

Shane Ross “FCX can’t. Requires a third party app to do that. OMF’s are something Apple doesn’t seem to think you need anymore.”

And FCPX can’t open older FCP projects without a 3rd party app either.

It’s easier to bring an FCP7 project into Premiere than it is to bring it into the newest version of FCP!

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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.”

[Derek Andonian]

“Picking a NLE company as your ‘favorite team’ seems an alignment that cannot be trusted anymore, so we gotta push the makers of the tools that we have right now and sadly not assume the company will be there for us in future.”

Wow, Apple’s arrogance has put a dark cloud over the whole industry. Sad, really…

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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.”

[Derek Andonian]

I’m glad to see Adobe adding color grading to their suite of tools, but Speedgrade won’t be very appealing to me until they get it connected to Premiere through Dynamic Link. Apparently right now the only way to get there is via EDL, or by expporting to a DPX sequence, which doesn’t sound appealing at all- aren’t those things like 8 megabytes per frame? :O

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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.”

[Derek Andonian]

The only downside is, they’re pretty much going to be glorified MacBook Airs.

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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.”

[Derek Andonian]

Ok, well, admittedly I was a little confused there, so I did some searching and found this-

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From the video:

“An EVENT is a collection of media files. A PROJECT is how you want them edited together.”

Which sounds just as absurd as my original assumption. A group of random videos is NOT an EVENT… 😉

Larry said in the video that the media from one event can be used in multiple projects, and also that there can be only one event folder per drive. I’m guessing this is where the “all media viewable by everyone” dilema stems from…

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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.”