[Jules Bowman]

Bill, I jump down your throat when you’ve rolled over many of us with the X is ahead of the curve and we can’t evolve line or argument, so I think it only fair of me to doff my hat to you for this post.

We may now resume sniping at each other and the balance of the universe will be resumed.

[Jules Bowman]

12) When I record audio I do so on a Zoom handheld device. it records one channel, so Left or Right, and in FCP I drop it into the timeline and set the pan to 0 and it comes out of both speakers.

in PP it seems to only allow it out the left speaker (that will be the side it recorded to on the Zoom) and when I pan to centre, or right, it just gets quieter or vanishes when on the right as there is nothing there.

I cannot simply set the pan to the centre like in FCP.

Anyone any idea what I am doing wrong here?

Thanks

[Jules Bowman]

11) Can one not drag a filter from one clip onto another clip retaining the settings of the filter from the first clip?

I want to drag some CC and Brightness/Contrast filters from a clip I’ve already worked on to a new clip but can’t do it, it would seem.

[Jules Bowman]

10) In FCP I would use the 3 way colour correction a lot to simply crush the blacks a little, maybe increase the whites a bit, up the saturation a tad which generally gave the shot a richer look.

Just opened the PP 3 way colour correction… er!!! Ok, am I being ultra dumb here or is the PP CC simply not laid out very well or clearly? I can’t seem to see how to alter the level of black in low mid or high individually.

I have tweaked Input and output levels which seem to have an effect but it feels like I have less control than those simple little sliders under each bit (shadow, mids, highs).

I also tried the brightness contrast filter which also does it but again doesn’t seem as simple as in FCP.

I also cannot see a way of clicking off to see what it was like before and after though i imagine that is simply me not knowing… so how do you turn a filter off then on to switch between before and after?

And as for the rest, is PP CC just really clunky compared to FCP? Do I have to live with that? I find it hard to believe everyone else doesn’t use the FCP way for basic CC because it seems so logical that it seems as if that is its natural shape… like a wheel.

JUST FOUND THE EFFECT ON/OFF SWITCH. Was me being stupid. Ta.

[Jules Bowman]

9) In FCP I have f5 set to lock all audio and f6 set to lock all video. This means if i only want the audio or the video off a clip it is easy to click the other key shortcut and close off what I don’t want.

I can’t seem to find a lock all audio and lock all video shortcut. Are they there and if so where?

[Jules Bowman]

8) When I open a bin and have them clips set to thumbnail, why are the clips in reverse order and how do i swap it to alphabetical order? In list mode they are in alphabetical order.

Sorry this is a real dumb question but i can’t seem to see what to click to swap the order of the clips in thumbnails.

[Jules Bowman]

6) In FCP I can place little icons in different windows of the app, eg: new sequence, freeze frame, +3db, Render, etc. which one clicks on and they work.

Do these icons exist in PP?

7) In FCP Shift+ALT allows me to drag a duplication of a clip onto another track, giving me two clips of the same content.

Did this get added to PP6? If so, anyone know the keyboard shortcut. If not, feature request? 🙂

Cheers

[Jules Bowman]

🙂

Plus with PP, you don’t have to hold it just so!

[Jules Bowman]

Cheers Steve. Will wander over on Friday..

Does anyone know how long the offer lasts on creative cloud for £27 a month if you have an old CS?

[Jules Bowman]

The survey was surreptitiously collecting digital signatures and agreements from unsuspecting users for Apples soon to be unveiled HUMANCENTiPAD.

Sorry, but all of you who submitted answers, prepare yourselves.