Joe Chow
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Sorry to pop up again. While the Batch Rename function seems to be working fine in Adobe Bridge, and I’m copying it to a DIFFERENT FOLDER just to keep the original media pristine and intact, what I find is that there is certain metadata that isn’t being copied over – namely the timecode of the clips. When I import the renamed clips into Premiere Pro, every clip begins from a zero timecode.
Just to make sure that this problem only happened because of the renaming, I imported the ORIGINAL camera card folder into Premiere, and each clip info still carried the original timecode.
As a test, I copied the folder at the camera card level to a different drive, and batch renamed the clips again, this time back to the SAME FOLDER, imported the card folder into Premiere Pro. Still no timecode.
So my question is: is there anyway to retain timecode info if I rename the clips prior to import?
It’s not important that I do it for this project, but I do have projects coming up where timecode will play an important role. -
You’re totally right! I was tired and bleary eyed, and I was looking in the folder expecting to see thumbnails of the mts files and when I didn’t, I freaked. It totally works and rocks. Thanks.
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I don’t have Windows Explorer. Working on a Mac, is that a problem? And Adobe Bridge does not recognize a lot of file types copied from camera cards. It simply does not “see” the clips the Media Browser does, but MB does not do batch rename. I did rename a clip in Bridge after importing it, but then the Premiere project loses track of it and if goes offline from the project.
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What a difference the “control” click mix. I understood that if I set my Preferences for the project as Mono, I could import the clips as having mono audio. But I wanted a way to do it after importing and that was what stumped me. Thanks for the help.
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It’s quite lackluster compared to the FCP copy/paste attributes feature. In Premiere, all attributes that fall under the heading of video effects get pasted. In FCP, you are given a full menu of attributes (including basic motion, crop, distortion, drop shadow and filters) to choose to paste, so it’s both convenient and selective, and it’s much better thought out,
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You’re right on both counts. It IS a powerful tool and it would be great if there were “layers” like in Photoshop. Thanks for the tips.
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Not as precise as match frame forward for the instances I was thinking of, but this method works well, especially if the moment’s used multiple times, then it’s actually more effective. Thanks much.
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Right you are! Very cool. Thanks.
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These look great. Now please indulge a dimwitted question. How do I locate the “Premiere CS5.5 Plugin folder” as per the Installation Instructions? I have 2 possible paths but since neither has anything similar there, I’m hesitant to drop them in. The 2 paths are: 1) MacHD>Library>Application Support>Adobe>Plugins>CS5 (there’s no CS5.5 folder) and 2) MacHD>Library>Application Support>Adobe>Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 (which has a folder in it called “Legal” so I doubt that’s the right location). The reason I’m looking in Application Support is that’s where the Final Cut Plugins go.
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Forgot the BIG ONE. A Copy/Paste Attributes command and menu like FCP. The biggest time-saver.