Joe Chow
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Thanks. Will check it out.
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I don’t know what version he was referring to but I was quite perplexed by that poster’s comments. It seems that all the features he was referring to ARE available in Premiere if you look for them. And I find Adobe Media Encoder (if he was referring to that) more versatile than Compressor.
I for one was reluctant to switch after 12 years on FCP. But I don’t have clients clamoring for X and I need something resembling continuity from a good number of legacy projects. So I AM glad Adobe seems to listen, unlike Apple. -
Great. I missed another cool right-mouse click function. Thank you.
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As an ongoing switcher to Premiere Pro, I too have issues with the clunkiness, but not so much the commands you refer to. I have opted not to use FCP keyboard defaults but rather to customize simple ones that have become second nature. So I have transplanted the “X” key from FCP, as well as Option-“I” “O” to remove in and out points, etc. On others I stay with Premiere’s shortcuts. What was “A” in FCP is now “V” in PP, what was “F” is now “M”…and I use page-up or page-down to go to the previous or next edit point.
So that’s all cool. What I do find clunky about PP, among other things, is the limited Trim tools it offers. In FCP, I loved being able to park my curser at an edit point, hit “R” or “RR” to turn it into a Roll or Ripple tool, and simply type in numbers as to how many frames or seconds I want to roll and ripple the edit point, or use the square brackets to move it back and forth frame by frame. In the last 5 years or so, I almost never opened the Trim Window in FCP. But in PP, incremental trimming of linked clips that you want unlinked is truly the definition of clunky.
Anyway, I’ve submitted my wish list, and hopefully they’ll come true. This is the link if you want to also:
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Agree. And I’ve been away from tape workflows so long (been doing Log & Transfer thing in FCP, so I’m new to Premiere as well) that I forget there are metadata columns in Premiere that reference Reel Name which should be used in just the way you suggest.
Anyway, I’ll try your way in a project which might require access to media from a non-Premiere system, where timecode is paramount as well.
And I do hope Adobe steps up the issue of XMP-awareness for Bridge, as you say, especially if they want the application to be truly pan-CS in functionality. -
I think it’s a matter of workflow preference. I don’t like to have a unique “reel” name that is 5 folder levels away from the hundreds of non-uniquely named clip files (00001.MTS, 00002.MTS, so on) I want to access or relink. I do prefer Batch Renaming at the file level with unique filenames (custome name + yyyymmddhhmmss) even if it means loss of timecode info. This is especially true when I’m confronted with hundreds of clips that I have to rename individually in Premiere.
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I agree that it’s not advisable renaming anything after it’s imported into Premiere. And if I were to choose the lesser of evils, I would certainly prefer the ability to Batch Rename prior to import because as you say I will be able to relink from the footage folder at some later date. The only misgiving I have is the loss of original timecode, but since I can put time-of-day info into the new filename, it’s an acceptable loss.
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Then why is there a “Rename” option in the application? So my options are pretty limited. I guess, whenever possible, I should have the footage transcoded prior to ingest.
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You’re absolutely right. It’s a dead end workflow. Only the project I’m trying it out on contains just 7 short clips each under 2 minutes long. So I was deluding myself into thinking that this could work.
What about Batch Renaming files that Adobe Bridge recognizes and doesn’t need “rewrapping”, files that just show up as .mov’s? -
Yes, but renaming in Premiere Pro isn’t only tedious, it doesn’t allow for changing the original file name (as you can do in FCP)and it bothers me that I’ll end up with hundreds of media files living in adjacent folders with the exact same names. So if I CAN live without timecode for certain projects, is there any OTHER downside to batch renaming in Adobe Bridge?