[Herb Sevush]

[Oliver Peters] “But, there is no financial driver to encourage Apple to do anything more with FCPX than what they’ve done already.”

But that was true before the last release that included “lanes” for audio. As an outsider it always looked as though the most requested features by users were lanes and a roles based mixer. Apple came through for lanes, any thing you see different at Apple as to why they won’t come through with a roles based mixer?

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Herb Sevush]

[Rachel Pearl] “I am looking to install ProRes sequence presets. Do they exist?”

ProRes sequence presets don’t exist, but you can make them and save them, if your using OSX, in the New Sequence dialogue window.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin\’ attached to nothin\’
\”Deciding the spine is the process of editing\” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Walter Soyka] “I’d be curious about the principles, if not the implementation, that you’d like to see honored in the titler.”

The new text tool is a partial port of the text tools from Photoshop and a good example of why I never do CG in Photoshop. It lacks any of the video CG specific tools that I need. I need one button centering in both horizontal and vertical axis. I need a command to distribute lines of text evenly top to bottom. I need crawl and roll. The old text tool was limited in some ways but the new tool is chaos, plus even the legacy version of the old title tool no longer opens up text templates, so all my previous text templates are now useless.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin\’ attached to nothin\’
\”Deciding the spine is the process of editing\” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

The company I mainly work with, in Boston, committed to Ppro about 3 years ago. It had one series that was cut on FCPX but that experiment has ended for the sake of conformity and easy access to freelance editors. Most of the cable network shows I know about in NYC are still cut with Avid with no sign of change at all.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin\’ attached to nothin\’
\”Deciding the spine is the process of editing\” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Bill Davis] “If you have found a bunch of innovation and delight in AVID or Premiere or Resolve – by all means go there.

I just haven’t.”

When have you tried out Premiere or Resolve? And if you haven’t then how would you know how much innovation or delight is to be found there?

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin\’ attached to nothin\’
\”Deciding the spine is the process of editing\” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Tony West] “But this is my top priority. Moving things around in timeline quickly.”

I understand that, which is why I wanted to point out that Ppro still doesn’t have that capacity. The “overlay” feature Simon described is, in part, a demo of a way that a tracked “magnetic” timeline could easily work.

[Tony West] “Yes, so it could work and look even more like X : ) just kidding you Herb”

For me the ideal NLE is the one with the most options – PPro with a “magnetic” option would be great.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin\’ attached to nothin\’
\”Deciding the spine is the process of editing\” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Tony West] “can you avoid using command G to move the video that is in V2 and it’s audio that is in A3?”

Yes. No need for command G, or anything else for that matter, just grab either the V2 or the A3 part of the clip and move it where you will, and both audio and video will travel together.

However, unlike X, it’s only when editing to the timeline that this “overlay” function prevents overwriting, not when simply moving clips already on the timeline. Clearly this overlay function could be added to moving clips as well, it’s up to Adobe to see if they ever implement that option.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin\’ attached to nothin\’
\”Deciding the spine is the process of editing\” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Steve Connor] “Why on earth would Adobe NOT have a keystroke for this?”

There are a number of functions in Ppro that are not available for keyboard shortcuts – no rhyme or reason why. That’s what happens when you prioritize creating new features over improving what you already have. After all, VR is used by most editors, isn’t it?

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin\’ attached to nothin\’
\”Deciding the spine is the process of editing\” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Tony West] ” In your example you brought down a clip with video and audio. By “default” they were not connected. What I am saying is that I want them connected every time by default.”

Tony. pardon me for intruding, but I think you have a misconception. When using the “overlay” method, like any other editing method within Ppro, the default is ALWAYS to have the audio of a clip attached to the video. There is a “button” on the timeline to detach all clips (which I use because that’s my style) but the default mode is always audio attached to video. The only time you have to do things manually by grouping is when you want to keep items from different clips attached to each other.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin\’ attached to nothin\’
\”Deciding the spine is the process of editing\” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

A beautiful film, with any camera. Given the lighting and EFX requirements it’s a bit like painting a portrait with a toothbrush – it can be done, but why would you?

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin\’ attached to nothin\’
\”Deciding the spine is the process of editing\” F. Bieberkopf