[Dustin Parsons]

I just did a test by importing a sequence from an old version of a project I’m working on into a newer version of the project. The sequence was imported with all generated media and After Effects Dynamic Linked comps found in the timeline but it did not import any footage or images used in the sequence but rather linked to the footage/images already present in the project. This sounds exactly like what you’re trying to do right?

Can you explain your workflow a little more? I’m not sure why we would be getting different results.

[Dustin Parsons]

Not sure that would help me with my current situation.

Here’s the scenario: I was delivered 11 folders of footage for 5 different projects. In PPro, I organized the footage into bins by project and now would like to use the Project Manager or something similar to move the footage in those bins from the 11 folders they’re currently in (in the Finder) into 5 project specific folders (in the Finder).

Basically, I like organizing my footage in Premiere Pro but need a way to translate that organization from PPro to the footage in the Finder. I used to be able to do this in FCP with the Media Manger without having to copy the footage and am looking for something similar with any Adobe products. Is this something that I can do in Bridge?

Thanks!

[Dustin Parsons]

Nope, sadly this has no been fixed yet. I would advice putting in a feature request for it though: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
If we make a big enough stink about it they will eventually add it in… maybe.

[Sid Harry] “I finally said good bye to FCP and of course I desperately try to make PP work like FCP.”

I’ve been working exclusive in PPro for a few months now and there are still a number of things the 5-6 year old FCP 7 did that PPro can’t or… can but requires a lot more work. The main thing that bothers me about PPro now is how often they want me playing around on the left side of the tracks – patching, locking, targeting, etc… I used to never even look over there in FCP but now my editing flow is disrupted all the time.

You’ll find some things to like about PPro definitely, but there will be a million little things that annoy you along the way (no hot key for locking all audio or video tracks, copy and pasting clips always puts them on V1 unless you have all tracks untargeted, stupid stuff that might never get fixed but would save all editors a ton of time).

[Dustin Parsons]

Thanks Tim! Didn’t know about that feature.

[Dustin Parsons]

It’s a given that different monitors are going to have discrepancies in how they display color but my concern has to do with changes in color representation across different programs. You can use any monitor to look at the screenshots I took and there will be a clear difference between the images on the left vs the images on the right (using the image from my first post as an example) so it’s not a monitor issue.

Thanks for the link! Don’t have time to read it all right now but I’ll definitely get into it later.

[Dustin Parsons]

So I tried the x264 codec to see if that would fix the problem. It worked in fixing the color representation for QT7 but QTX and Safari remain washed out.

hmmmmm… any ideas? I can’t just tell my clients to watch my videos using Chrome or Firefox since they usually have to send it to 3-5 other people for comments and there’s no way my request to view in a specific browser would get passed down.

**I realize this should probably not be in the Debate forum. Feel free to move it wherever it’s most appropriate.

[Dustin Parsons]

[Kim Segel] “Not sure why you want to view the waveform on the source side when you could look at it on the timeline.”

Looking at an audio clip in the Source window gives me a huge display of the waveform and isolates the source so I can visually look for a cut point while listening to just that clip of audio. In FCP I could perform this action in just a few seconds with 2 keyboard shortcuts, ‘f’ to bring the clip into the Source, find the cut point then ‘f” brings me back to that exact point on the timeline. Bam, done.

As far as I can in tell in PPro there is no hot key to solo an audio track (has to be clicked) and expanding the track in the timeline requires a few key strokes or selecting it on the left side and dragging the track down, both of which take longer than the method I’m used to.

[Dustin Parsons]

Thanks Ryan. That works but you’re right, having to do one at a time isn’t ideal. I ended up using GoPro Studio just because I was in a pinch and that was able to batch process the files.

Sucks that Adobe doesn’t have good alternatives to old programs like Cinema Tools. I guess it works fine if you’re editing in PPro but I just haven’t made the switch yet.

[Dustin Parsons]

[Ryan Holmes] “Bring them all in to PPro. Right click on them and choose “Modify–>Interpret Footage…” Chose the frame rate you want the footage to assume, in your case 23.976.”

Thanks Ryan!

I was able to do this but I can’t drag and drop from the project window of PPro to the Queue in AME. I tried starting in PPro and dragging but it appears as though I can only drag the files within PPro, not to anything outside of it. I also tried starting in AME and tried the grab the files from PPro but it just switches to PPro when I attempted that.

Can you clarify how I get them into AME?

[Dustin Parsons]

Sorry I was mistaken, it is not a text layer it’s actually a shape layer. I didn’t have the font for the logo I’m recreating so I had to do it as a shape but I still have each letter as an individual element in the Contents of the shape layer.

I do not have the option of enabling per character 3D in the animate menu for the layer. Is what I’m trying to achieve still possible?