[Joby Anthony jr]

Forgive this post to an older thread, but I actually ran across this last week and came across an Adobe Help webpage dated toward the end of April that addresses this. So I’ll leave it here for anyone else that may run across this issue and has questions.

https://helpx.adobe.com/download-install/kb/library-folder-created-on-macos.html

[Joby Anthony jr]

Our team are on iMacs, and we’ve struggled with the same discrepancy between what we see in Premiere and our exports. Premiere is too dark. And though toggling the Display Color Management preference setting off and on helps some, it doesn’t solve it. Some team members have tried to go down the LUT route without good success.

So what we’ve done, for now, is turn Display Color Management ‘on’ (or ‘checked’), and then apply to clip(s) in the timeline the Gamma Correction effect set to 8. Color to taste and then turn off the Gamma Correction effect before export.

The resulting export is close to what we see in Quicktime, and more importantly appears to match our deliverable played back through a web browser.

[Joby Anthony jr]

Thank you Joe! Good to know–appreciate it. Haven’t pulled the trigger on Catalina yet. And good thing, I guess. 15.4 would’ve really hurt.

Anyway, at least in low res mode I’m able to save a few system resources. Outlook is a real hog (comparatively speaking).

As always, appreciate your informative and detailed responses throughout this forum!

— Joby

[Joby Anthony jr]

Matthew, I cam across this post. I know it’s old, but FWIW, flickering I experience on my 2015, 27″ iMac, 16 GBs, Mojave was/is directly related to a bug with Microsoft Outlook and this particular model iMac. I have to run Outlook in “low resolution” mode to avoid the issue. Has something to do with the program and the specific graphics cards for this model. My IT guy actually sent me an article on the issue, so it’s documented out there somewhere (sorry, don’t have the article to link to).

So, not sure if this is the same flickering you were experiencing or not, but I know that working in FCPX often triggered the issue. Like the system running out of resources or something. A reboot was the only thing that worked to reset (i.e., stop) the issue. And, again, running Outlook in low res mode.

You do that, BTW, by getting info on the app (Command + I) and there’s a checkbox for that option. Makes the font in the app a bit fuzzy, but otherwise still functional.

— Joby.

[Joby Anthony jr]

Admittedly very late to your question and so likely irrelevant at this point, but I ran across this post today. For what it’s worth, something like 2reelguys.com comes to mind. Might give you a list of videos to choose from in order to launch off a classroom discussion about the implications of editing a scene/story.

— Joby.

[Joby Anthony jr]

My two cents for laptop editing is to get an external monitor. At least when you’re at home base this will give you the option to bring the eye-line higher benefitting the neck. And it will give you a second monitor to edit with. And it will keep you at a chair and a desk rather than the couch, thus making better overall ergo a greater potential (though I concur with Todd about slouching over time . . .).

And if you’re looking at a wired mouse, then go for the wired full-size keyboard too, though that one can be a bit of dice-roll depending on how far away you need to keep the laptop screen and whether room remains to put a keyboard in front of it.

Or, just use the external monitor and allow the laptop to just be the engine–again, when at home base.

— Joby.

[Joby Anthony jr]

Tangier, I know this is a few weeks down the road from your initial question, but you described the same dilemma we’ve wrestled with. It resonated.

For what it’s worth, what I’ve ended up doing is saving the card originals on a couple of harddrives for a period of time. As the drives fill up, basically rolling off old cards as newer ones come in. That way I can always go back to a card original if I need to for any reason (e.g., are we missing a clip from the card, corruption somewhere in the handoff, rewrap, rename, moving, etc. process, and so on). I’ve probably got a year and a half worth of cards I can go back to. Comes in handy from time-to-time, especially as a double-check. But ultimately relying on the re-wrap re-names as the master files down-the-line, for many of the reasons mentioned by others.

I also appreciated your testing and reporting on re-wrap/don’t re-wrap. Bret’s info about treating mxf files was news to me. But glad to know that at least your experience seemed to reveal no harm either way. Might help me re-think some of our workflow.

And to Joe’s point about future-proofing the library as maybe just as or more important. Yes!! I discovered much later than I should have that little tidbit coming off 10.0 several years ago. Once discovered, did a 30-day panic to convert everything. I pay closer to attention to these things now!

Joby.

[Joby Anthony jr]

You’re welcome! To your list of learning resources, I would add:

Larry Jordan (https://larryjordan.com/)
Ripple Training (https://www.rippletraining.com/)

Both have free and paid resources. Of course there are many others, but over the years I’ve relied heavily on these two, especially Larry Jordan.

Joby.

[Joby Anthony jr]

Consider too Kyrina that it might not only be a slower/older/smaller computer, but other factors too such as the type of harddrive connection, the type of video codec, framerate, resolution, etc. All variables that can have an impact on render times, playback smoothness, etc. For example, depending on the age of your computer, a harddrive connected at USB 2.0 speeds would be very painful to edit with.

With regards to rendering a project during the edit, it is generally individual preference, but turning off background rendering can help free up computer resources and minimize impact on harddrive space. But if a project is pre-rendered prior to export it can help speed up the export, if you’re exporting to the project rendering codec (usually ProRes). If you’re exporting an .mp4, that can take a lot longer to do since it has re-render everything. Generally, it’s a good idea to export a high quality master (e.g., ProRes), and then use another program like Compressor to make smaller, compressed versions for distribution, such as creating an .mp4.

Maybe all of this you already know, but figured I’d throw it out there since you mentioned still learning about all the puzzle pieces that have to come together for an edit (and editor) to work well.

Joby.

[Joby Anthony jr]

I thought Rush was the mobile version for phones and tablets. Allowed you to start a project there and either finish it there, or move it over to Premiere on a computer for finishing.

I haven’t tried it. Hard for me to imagine instances where I’d want to. “Maybe” it could work in an instance of doing a quick and dirty mock-up with phone footage with a quick test edit as a proof-of-concept? Maybe?

— Joby.