Erik Lindahl
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I’m not a Premier Pro user, so it’s hard to give good coments on the app vs FCP in the real world. I say this cause alot of things are promised form everybody and then you have what actually works. Most elements of FCP that I’ve used work wonderfully in the current version (5.04 that is for me, haven’t gotten the 5.1 upgrade yet). To me it sounds very much like Premier Pro 2.0 that came this Januari is quite similar feature-wise to Final Cut Pro 5 that came at NAB last year.
Yes, you will lose the direct AE <-> NLE interaction. However, automatic duck does quite a good jobb att doing this transition for you.
A collegue of mine always argues that using Premier Pro is very much like using Final Cut – very similar in the basics. I did spend some time in Premier Pro 1.5.1 at IBC last year and really didn’t like the in-project media management. This was very much the same as the standards found in After Effects which are quite below avarage I’d say. FCP has quite good (not state of the art), but better than avarage control of in-project media. You can have bin in bins and projects multiple projects running att the same time etc. Also sitting in a Windows-environment is a big factor for me. Premier = Windows and FCP = OSX.
On aspect I found weird about PP was the fact that Adobe uncompressed codecs were adobe suite ONLY (i.e the media-files will not playback inside of Windows Media Player or Direct-what-ever-it’s-called apps). If that’s true, going to FCP will be a huge “freedom leap” in terms of compatailit to the outer world.
Since you seem to do use After Effects, the audition of MOTION and DVD STUDIO PRO will be very nice. Again, Encore 2.0 seems to have done some catching up to DVDSP, however, that app I’d almost want to say is one of the best apps around. It’s has a few quirks but works very nicely. Motion can for some projects have 5-fold speedincrese compared to AE, but it’s limited to sertain areas (you can do stuff like realtime croma-keying if speed is higher priority than supream quality).
A final thing is that FCP is still in a, what I’d call, “non-fully-osxifide-state”. The looks and feel of the app is okey, but for instance, DVDSP feels more like an app made for OSX (if you’ve used OSX for a while I reckon you’ll notice this after a while
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Io > DV/DV50/JPEG on PowerBook also require separate HD?
Would be quite nice for on-set captures.
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The thing about the timelines “black holes” compared to “slug” is that the “black holes” are really “transparent holes” (i.e. nothing is there). This can cause problems I’ve notised. Exporting to the animation codec will give transparency instead of black and exporting to DVD (MPEG2) has given me white-flashframes.
For best practice use black slugs.
If you don’t experiance any problems
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Yeah, your solution is a solution but really not perfect since after doing the ripple cut I lose track of where my playhead was previously.
The SWAP CLIPS function I reckon also should be applicable to many clips. Also, can you set a “hot key” or short-cut for clip-swaping? Sometime I wonder if that wouldn’t be faster than fiddling with the mouse 🙂
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Actually placing clips at “sync points” in a separate videolayer that’s locked with a locked audiolayer might do exactly what I’m looking for
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I know all about inserting and overwriting. I guess I’m trying to figure out a system that isn’t really possible (or practical) to create. The problem arises if I for instance:
1. Place a 100s long song in my edit
2. Have a sync-point at say 0s, 50s and 100s into the song (to make this simple)
3. Start to place a bunch of images between point 0s and 50s
4. After adding say clips to 30s into the edit I find a great clip to place at 10s into the edit -
Perhaps it is now, but it should have to be. There really is no magic to it either. The two-step prosess could just be a one step-process.
For instance, when you review an edit you see a point “oh, here I want to add that clip I placed at the end of the timelime
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No, that doesn’t quite do it.
Shift-X moves the playhead away from the area where I planned my insert, instead placing it were I’ve done my extract/ripple cut.
Shift-V does the correct thing but leaves the original clip behind.
Other options?
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I read an intervju about the abcense of FW800 on the MacBook Pro and the answer was simple: Intel don’t do that at the moment. They don’t have a motherboard with FW800 on it and doing a specialliced Mac-version of a motherboard was going up the price of the final product.
Apple sees the “grand market” for sales and they actually are OK with USB2-drives (look at your standard PC). A few of us REALLY would like to see FW800 and it’s sad Apple left us out there
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Or you can just create your Vingette as a Photoshop-file and place that on your video