[Joel Ray]

Thanks so much for posting this hotkey. It reminded me that I bought a plug-in called Excalibur that might have this functionality, and sure enough it does! Added this to my macro on my custom X-keys keypad and it’s working great now!

[Joel Ray]

I was searching for a way to do the same function and found this old thread. I don’t understand the Premiere community’s antagonism toward keyboard optimization (which seems to extend to Adobe as well).

The answer is yes though, grabbing the mouse and clicking DOES significantly slow down the process, especially for functions you use over and over. But your premise is wrong to begin with. You can’t just “grab the mouse and click,” first you must select the track tool, and likely afterwards you will want to go back to the selection tool. So we are talking about 1 button press vs 2 different buttons, a mouse movement, and a click.

I lay out all my footage in a sequence and separate them by set amounts of time for a scene, a camera setup, and a take so at a glance I can see all my footage. I have 4 macros set up to move everything down the timeline in these increments because this is an operation I do many, many times a day. A keyboard function to select right could be added to this macro and save me at least tens of minutes every time I organize footage (several times a week). That would be so much better than this process:

Select tool, Move mouse, Click, +5.., enter, select different tool

[Joel Ray]

Great, this is exactly the kind of info I was looking for! I don’t see much point in scaling all of the footage if that makes it difficult to resize using the full res clips. I have been working with ‘set to frame size’ for that reason. Sounds like I know what I need. Thanks!

[Joel Ray]

I’m truly much obliged. Thank you!

[Joel Ray]

Thanks. Yes, I know Avid runs great on PCs, I use it all the time. I was only speaking to their certification process, which would necessitate me buying something like an HP z820, z620, or something like that on the PC side. A lot of people make the argument that you can build a beefy i7 based PC for cheap, but you end up with a non-certified machine that won’t be supported by Avid. Then I would still need to deal with mac formatted drives, and I’m not sure how solid support is for that on Windows, which I believe would require some type of 3rd party support. But all that is really beside the point, I decided it is better for me to go with a Mac for side projects as it is what is expected by many indy producers, and using anything else is another battle that I don’t want to deal with.

[Joel Ray]

“If you do a lot of GPU and have a RED Camera, do be sure to have a decent GPU card in there (if you can) as we recently added the ability to have the GPU assist in the RED debayer process – essentially creating a kind of RED rocket card.”

Dennis, thanks for this info. Do you have any info on the minimum requirements to get decent performance out of this new feature on a 2013 Mac Pro? Would the dual D300s on the Mac Pro suffice, or do you really need the D500 or D700 to get acceptable results with something like 5K?

Thanks for any insight you can offer.

[Joel Ray]

Thank you for your thoughts. But if the dual GPU support only really helps with render and export then what is the reason for upgrading to the D500? Single GPU support? I did consider PC options, but usually when I work on a side project at home I’m inevitably handed a thunderbolt drive that is Mac formatted. I know I could use a driver to read a mac formatted drive on Windows, but when you start to work with non-standard equipment all eyes turn to you when there is a problem. Plus I believe the nMP is certified for Avid as well, so it’s nice to have support available for that as well.

[Joel Ray]

Well this is welcome news, upgrades are now $299 and $399. I just bought a MC upgrade for $599 earlier this week. Luckily they have a 30 day return policy.

[Joel Ray]

I upgraded from 5.5 to 6.5 and it was $599, I would suspect that will be your upgrade price. $499 is for those who have the most recent version prior to the update.

[Joel Ray]

I would assume that symphony will be just another option like Phrasefind or Scriptsync