[Greg Janza]

Andrew, everyone seems to have their own approach to organization so you’ll probably get a variety of responses.

My approach to staying organized is to import all media in well labeled bins. And for most of my media inside of Premiere my bin names match the folder names of where the media actually lives on my drives so that I can easily trace.

As for timeline management, if your piece is on the longer side (20-30mins) and there’s chapters or segments then it makes sense to create timelines for each.

I recently finished a 30min show that had four segments. I built each segment in it’s own timeline during rough cut and fine cut stage. And then when all four segments were nearly at a finishing stage I brought all four into a new timeline and from that point on all of the finishing work was done in this complete timeline.

One key to working with a multitude of timelines is to stay consistent with your track assignments. If your music is on audio tracks 7&8 in one timeline, then it should be on those same tracks in all other timelines. And the same would hold for video tracks. Consistency will prevent you from losing your mind if down the road you need to export out versions without text, graphics or music.

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[Greg Janza]

[Tim Wilson] “what is it about this cohort that makes them swing so disproportionately Mac-ward, since swing Mac-ward they clearly do.
“

I think you’ve touched on the story behind the numbers Tim. This upward tick of Mac’s being used speaks more to the demographic of employees. The younger the employee the better the chance that they are a Mac centric individual. 20 years of Apple becoming a cultural force and a status symbol product has led us to the IBM statistic.

I’ve witnessed this shift towards mac products even among my friends who are employed in all types of businesses and who aren’t in a young demographic. All of these folks used to have PC laptops and now at the tail end of 2017 all of these friends except for one (a lawyer) are the proud users of MBP’s. It’s the cultural shift of a generation that has caused the companies to evolve and change as well.

But life is also filled with ebb and flow so perhaps this too is just a phase. I’m one of those folks who after many years had my fill of the Apple nonsense and abandoned ship. And I think the abandonment of Apple is also a real trend that is just beginning within the creative world.

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[Greg Janza]

MXF OP1a is also a default option within Adobe Media Encoder.

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[Greg Janza]

Chris, thanks for the detailed info on troubleshooting Project Manager. It is the single most frustrating feature within the program for me.

In the days of Avid, collecting a project was a very straightforward and simple affair. But with Premiere the variables are many and overall the interface just isn’t what it needs to be.

So while adding VR and 360 certainly helps from a marketing perspective I sure would love to see something as unsexy as the project manager just work.

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[Greg Janza]

My mac is on the long slow fade out so I’ll eventually be PC only. I thought I would use both but I now do 99% of my work on PC.

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[Greg Janza]

[Shane Ross] “the only thing keeping me running Apple is the damned ProRes deliverable. “

That was the last item keeping me tethered to my mac as well but throughout 2017 I’ve been delivering DNxHD and more recently MXF OP1a. I think the pro res requirement will soon be replaced with these equal options.

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[Greg Janza]

[Oliver Peters] “Very few professionals are going to go away from a mainstream PC if they go Windows, which generally means Dell or HP.”

I sure you’re right about that Oliver but I’d like to advocate to anyone looking to upgrade their system that a custom built PC is definitely a viable option. Naturally there’s a number of variables that can potentially come into play but if one does their homework on compatible components and proper set up ( The Creative Cow and Adobe Hardware Forum being two of the best resources) it shouldn’t scare anyone away to build their system from scratch.

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[Greg Janza]

peter, great to hear that you’ve tracked the issue down.

If you don’t want to redo all of your work, maybe this app will work for you:

https://joshcluderay.com/downgrade-premiere-project-converter/

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[Greg Janza]

the web is now doing active battle against the adblockers. I’m finding more and more sites that lock access to their pages until adblocking is turned off.

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[Greg Janza]

Peter I hope I’m wrong. I’m just using my own system for comparison and so on my end any intensive adobe encoder processing puts most of the stress on my CPU. And when I looked at a benchmark comparison between your AMD 8350 and my i7-5820k it looked like the AMD lags behind quite dramatically.

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-5820K-vs-AMD-FX-8350/2579vs1489

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