Doug Mann
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At times, “software only” rendering engine is your only salvation. Although a renderer should explicitly follow the instructions to process the data properly (using hardware to accelerate the process when possible) I have often had to accept that some of our machines produce different output results than others. Sad.
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Premiere has never had very good support for audio and the user interface. Welcome to the channel linking rabbit hole.
Any audio engineer of any experience will recoil in shock when first introduced to the audio component. Adobe seems to be determined not to fix the mono/stereo problem. 20 years ago, Final Cut did this effortlessly, along with every other audio editing tool in existence. Fundamentally, audio tracks should present to the user as individual channels, linkable or isolatable at will of the editro. Instead, Adobe chooses to trap audio files in pairs, or assign in mono with the inability to link as pairs. Either, or. And, don’t get lulled into the whole “Audition” round turn technique either. Might as well learn to cut tape again with a razor blade.
So, my entry here is a complaint – I wish it were a solution instead. I gave up on doing serious audio work in Adobe long ago. Someone should post a workaround soon (which every time I learn to do convinces me that Premiere is useless for audio). You may have to re-import stuff and other nonsense, etc.
OK Adobe apologists, your turn.
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Hopefully I did not speak too soon. It’s a combination of Qsync, VPN and a local small DAS for each workstation. Was working great, but now I’m having problems. Inexplicable denials of access by qsync client. Let’s see if qnap can track down the problem.
Haven’t lost any file though, and it’s great having it keep things in sync all in the background. I had a remote editor make a mistake on an edit, and I opened the project at the office, fixed it, and the new sequence was returned to the remote editors without any intervention from me.
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Judging by the silence, it seems there may be no more interest in server based editing these days. Anyway, I came up with a solution to allow my home users to edit at 10 gigabit speed and keep the central server updated. Really a game changer for our workflow.