[Dustin Parsons]

I was pretty excited about the announcement too but after seeing what’s offered I’m pretty sure most NLEs come with 80% of the bundled plugins in Universe so I’m not sure how useful it would be for me yet.

One thing I think is really cool is the previews of new effects they’re working on and the community voting system. It would be great for Adobe to set something up like this for bug fixes or feature request.

What plugins do you think you’ll get the most use from?

[Dustin Parsons]

[David Baud] ” If you have some compositing, transitions, etc… it might be more difficult for your colorist to work with”

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Any compositing though should be fine since it will be flattened but transitions might pose an issue. I’m crossing my fingers they don’t come back with changes after the grade, most thing I work on aren’t “Final” the first time I deliver the Final anymore.

Hmmm… makes me wonder about getting LUTs from the colorist, Direct Linking to Speedgrade and just using those if changes are necessary. Eh, I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it.

Thanks for your help!

[Dustin Parsons]

Awesome! Thanks Walter. That does sound like it would be the easiest solution by far.

[Dustin Parsons]

[Douglas K. Dempsey] “So my vote is: Change the name slightly, if people really feel the need. But don’t “atomize” this wildly entertaining, informative and rich forum into a lot of sparsely populated niche forums.”

I completely agree. The last thing I’d want is to do is get rid of the rich discussion here that comes from the diversity of interest of those who visit – that’s precisely what I love about this place. Perhaps my view is skewed because I’m a PPro user and still find this forum of much more interest based on the type of post that seem okay here but would be out of place in the Adobe CC Debate forum. For instance, I wanted to see what people were talking about with all the new NAB releases and where did I go? the Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate forum. Not because I was particularly interested in FCPX’s new features or how new camera’s would work with FCPX but because I’ve been coming here for quite a while and know what this forum has become – unlike any new user visiting the Cow who would likely expect this forum to be on topic like all others.

Maybe a better solution than making another forum would be to merge the XXX or Not: The Debate forums into one forum. We keep the debates going, we keep the post about cameras and DIT tech and codecs going, we keep talking about everything… just not under the guise of it having to pertain to one particular NLE.

This forum is great because of the different backgrounds and interest of those who visit, it’d be sad to see it succumb to a bubble of those who’ve regularly been visiting since the launch of FCPX while new members fumble around to find where to post their OT musings, inquiries, and tech discussions.

…or maybe I just ignore it hope new users find their way here without much trouble.

[Dustin Parsons]

I don’t think the Art of the Edit forum is necessarily the best place for the majority of these topics. Art of the Edit looks more like a place for discussing aesthetics, history and general techniques of editing without regard to what’s NEW to post-production. What makes this forum unique is it’s focus on new technology, changes to existing workflows and most importantly the future of editing. I feel like the FCPX Debate forum is all about staying relevant to what’s happening now – updates, new releases, speculation on changes to come, etc…

It might be a hassle for a month or two to move all off topic posts to a new forum until people get used to going there but in the long run it would be the best thing to keep this place alive.

[Andrew Kimery] “but that seems like more hassle than it’s worth.”

A small price to pay in my opinion, hell, I’ll even help out if they’re low on manpower.

[Dustin Parsons]

[Victor Nguyen] “Why is that?”

Good question! Unfortunately there’s not a good answer. Coming from FCP7 which could import sub-folders and was released around 5 years ago you’d think any modern NLE would have this feature – Adobe certainly has had ample time to implement it.

Here’s a workaround though:
• Import the top folder into After Effects – this will keep subfolders/file heir achy intact
• Copy and paste the top folder from After Effects into Premiere Pro

Sucks that we have to use a workaround for something that should be standard.

[Dustin Parsons]

Based on your workflow I don’t think you’re doing anything wrong. I just recreated exactly what you did but didn’t move computers and got the same results as I did before. Maybe moving computers is messing it up? Shouldn’t be.

I don’t know… 🙁

[Dustin Parsons]

[Brett Nelson] “When you bring in a sequence, does it only import the sequence and nothing else into your project?”

When I imported the sequence here’s what it brought in:
• the sequence
• any generated media (titles, color mattes, etc…) found in that sequence
• any After Effects Dynamic Linked comps found in that sequence

There was no footage or images imported with the sequence.

When I clicked on a clip in the newly imported sequence and Reveal in Project it brings me to the footage that was already present in the project before I imported the sequence.

[Dustin Parsons]

[Alex Udell] “I’d like Bridge promoted and explained properly for video pros. :)”

Agreed. I know it exist but haven’t found it to be more useful than the Finder which is what it’s supposed to replace right?

[Dustin Parsons]

I asked the same question recently: https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/335/66624

Some people suggested encoding to X.264 through Episode Pro or giving the Ogg codec a shot. Haven’t tried either of those but seeing as it’s messed up for you no matter what codec you use there doesn’t seem to be a solution yet… sigh.