Marisu Fronc
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Brett-
[Brett Nelson] “Where media management is such a central part of your editing, wouldn’t it make sense to go over to the dark Avid side?”
Of COURSE it would make sense, but I don’t make those decisions! The boss LOVES premiere so . . . premiere it is. My job (should I choose to acept it) is to manage to crank out the same amount of work DESPITE the limitations. (Besides, at this point we have 5 stations of Premiere, as well as the 3 of edit* for legacy projects, and we’re getting ready to add a 6th – switching again in the near future isn’t very likely IMHO).
slainte,
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Brett
[Brett Nelson] “Patron Saint of Overburdened Projects”
hmmm . . . nope, not a saint (she mutters under her breath after spending an ENTIRE day trying to export to tape 4 simple 13 minute timelines)I pared the project down to the bone, and it STILL had almost 8,000 sources (mixed 4:3 and 16:9, some qt’s, all colour-corrected, standard processing on the audio – just a walk in the park – right?!).
I haven’t EVER used subclips – everything gets logged in a database by the producers, selects get output as a batch capture list (clip names are numbers assigned by the database, description of shot are logged in the appropriate fields in premiere, supposedly the next batch capture list i get should automate that) so we always capture that way. my issues come with the limitations on sorting and i keep trying to refine my methods for figuring out how to easily clue myself into what I have in each folder without actually having to open them all all the time (my hand falls asleep when i scroll through a list that long!)
at this very moment, however, i’m finally home and ready to go work off my frustrations!!
slainte,
marisu -
Brett-
I had the same problem and ended up making a folder for each roll and then sorting by timecode (more scrolling, but it DOES lay out logically).
slainte,
marisu -
Jeffrey-
Offline the clip and recapture it – NEXT time export to audition!
slainte,
marisu -
David-
It CAN work – but not for the way my company operates, otherwise I would have done it already!! And, of course, you have to merge it all at some point (and, for us, that’s only about a 10th of the way to finish when the evaluation process starts) – besides, it’s hard enough to keep from reusing footage without having to try to calculate what you used in each of 20 projects(which would all need almost the complete amount of source material available at the start anyway, so only the sequences themselves would be shorter!!)
Bottom line, for me at least, is that it will just continue to be a hassle until the powers that be decide that Premiere isn’t the best fit for what we do. Until then . . . like I said, I’m learning to take breaks!!
slainte,
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Brett-
Although it is nowhere as easy as “save as” (which, yes, I miss INCREDIBLY!!!!!) I have started copying and renaming sequences before I make significant changes – then if I go awry I can go back to the first version, or cut and paste between, or whatever (a LOT easier than having to open an earlier version of the project – although I rename those daily so that I can “cycle back” if needed).
slainte,
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David-
[David Cherniack] “I don’t think we’ll see the necessary fixes do do really large projects until version 4. Hope I’m wrong.”
I hope you’re wrong too . . . however, in just a few short months I KNOW I’ll be working on a 2.5 hour programme (the current version has over 4000 cg pages alone), and it WILL be in PPro2.0 so . . . I guess I’ll be taking a LOT more smoke breaks (and coffee breaks, and answer my e-mail breaks, etc, etc) while the system has a few minor nervous breakdowns each day.
On the bright side – 2.0 is behaving MUCH better than 1.5 (at least I’m not rebooting 20 times a day or losing hours of work anymore!!) Of course, everyone also finds it amusing to watch me with reading glasses over my trifocals squinting to read the LITTLE TEENSY WEENSY type in the project manager window anyway (getting old sucks!!) so I’m sure they will really enjoy it when I end up with 20 or 30,000 items to search through!!
slainte,
marisu -
Dave-
I think that Dave (the other Dave, that is) actually wants to be able to resort in the order of capture (for example – 3 days after I start I need to find and add a shot from the head of the tape to my job, chronologically it would be last captured although the media start sort would place it first in the list) as sorting by time code is fairly easily done.
It is a conundrum – I’ve resorted to many many little folders (usually inside of larger folders, etc) so I can segregate things that were digitized for a particular cut, producer, etc. (and then, of course, still hunting because I don’t need duplicates, especially when they mislead me into thinking I haven’t used a shot yet!!) No matter how you slice it though I spend too much time scrolling (or moving things around so I can “hopefully” find them later!!) Of course, I know, I know – everyone already yelled at me when I said my average job has about 10,000 or so sources but . . . . . . .
slainte,
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Steve-
The first time you used PP 2.0 and checked the box (take this action each time I connect this device – edit and record using Premiere) it seems to default to the newest version. So far, I have not found a way around it – however, I must admit it hasn’t caused any hangups or problems, in fact, I wouldn’t even have noticed it if I hadn’t seen the minimized “open project” screen sitting on the taskbar. When you either uninstall the trial OR go to 2.0 it should go back to its normal operation.
slainte,
marisu -
Wil-
The timecode seems to be fine coming out of the converter (yes, it does have a 422 cable bringing in the data from the deck) – it’s just that Premiere 2.0 doesn’t see it with auto TC detect selected – if you incorrectly select DF for an NDF source it can’t find the in point (which certainly indicates that it IS seeing NDF code coming in), but it can’t auto select the correct format. However, once you tell it NDF it correctly and accurately captures.
slainte,
marisu