[Michael Hancock]

Thanks Kevin.

I figure the Adobe crew, particularly the Premiere Pro team, are being inundated with feature requests begging to make the program function more like FCP. I’m begging you guys to make it more like Avid!

Question for you – if we have a feature request that’s pretty difficult to explain, or is GUI related and would easier to show than tell, how do we send that? I feel like there’s a lot of wasted space and would love to mock up some ideas I think could improve the program, but I don’t want to write 1,000 words when one picture would suffice.

Thanks again. Looking forward to CS6 to see what’s being implemented/changed. Premiere is really surprising me (in a good way).

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Michael Hancock
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[Michael Hancock]

When you load the clip into your source monitor, go to your timeline and look at the source side tracks. Is the TV icon on the left of the V track toggled? If it’s not, then turn it on and you’ll get the picture back.

If it is on and the picture still doesn’t show, I’m not sure what’s going on.

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Michael Hancock
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[Michael Hancock]

[Paul Neumann] “Highlight the clip in the timeline, highlight the other clip in the bin, option/alt drag the clip from the bin onto the clip in the timeline.”

Ah – very After Effects. I like this, but doesn’t this require you to open the clip in your bin in the source monitor, set the In point or Out point, select the clip in the timeline, then go back to the bin and Alt/Option Drag? Still too many steps for a very common operation, but good to know. Thanks!

I’ve sent a feature request. If this would be useful to you, please send one as well.

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Michael Hancock
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[Michael Hancock]

[ben g unguren] “I’ll venture a guess that you’re coming from FCP where this was common, eh?”

Avid primarily, then took a job that used FCP and when it was EOL’d we started the move to Premiere since it came with the production suite. I can just about map and run Premiere like an Avid, but there are little things like this that are getting in the way. It’s a much more efficient editor than FCP, though, in many ways. I like it so far.

[ben g unguren] “I suspect this has been requested of Adobe — maybe I’ve requested it, can’t remember — but if you want to ask them for it, here’s the link.”

Thanks. I’ve been peppering them with feature requests since I first opened the program. Probably sent 10 the first day. I see a lot of promise in the program, but it definitely needs some finessing.

I’ll post another feature request.

EDIT: Feature request sent. If anyone else wants this I suggest you also request it. The more Adobe gets of these the more likely they are to implement them.

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Michael Hancock
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[Michael Hancock]

Thanks Kris. I selected the clip on my timeline, right clicked, choose Replace with Clip in Source Monitor and it does exactly what I want, but that’s very cumbersome. Is there no keyboard command for it? I couldn’t find where to map it on the keyboard.

If I can’t map it to the keyboard I’ll use the mouse, but that means it’s feature request time. Adobe is going to hate me by the time I’m done making y requests.

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Michael Hancock
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[Michael Hancock]

There is no subframe audio editing in Avid. It’s been a feature request for years.

However, you can see the waveforms in the source monitor. At the bottom of your timeline you’ll see a button that looks like the source record monitors – hit that and your timeline will now show the source in the timeline window. You can now expand the audio tracks and turn on waveforms.

I suggest mapping that button to your keyboard or mouse if you have a multibutton mouse so you can quickly toggle to show the source, select the bit you want, toggle back to show the timeline and pick where you want to cut it in.

Avid’s way is different than the FCP method of viewing the waveforms in the source window, but I much prefer the Avid method because you can navigate long clips much easier since you’re viewing it like a timeline. Zoom in, expand tracks, toggle audio layers on and off the find the cleanest channels, etc…

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Michael Hancock
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[Michael Hancock]

It’s a limitation of AMA. Hopefully it will be remedied at some point.

Just duplicate your sequence, remove the video, and transcode the audio. It should be quick, won’t take up much space, and gets around the AMA limitations. It’s not perfect, but it’s a solution.

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Michael Hancock
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[Michael Hancock]

Apply a 3D Warp effect or Picture In Picture. Video in Avid doesn’t have motion and opacity parameters by default. They’re activated through effects, and 3D warp is the one I use most common for them.

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Michael Hancock
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[Michael Hancock]

The project should transfer fine. I don’t believe the Pan and Zoom plugin is backwards compatible though so if you used it the moves will have to be recreated.

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Michael Hancock
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[Michael Hancock]

[Kristofer Dowdell] “Also, if I were to go ahead and go with the Adobe CS 5.5 what training books would you recommend? I used the Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro 7 in class and it was very helpful and easy to follow along. I want to know if there are any books for Adobe that are similar to the FCP one?”

I really can’t make a recommendation on training book. I just opened the program and started using it. When I ran into a roadblock I’d search the web (mostly CreativeCow and adobe.com) or read the help files.

These videos helped explain the program: https://tv.adobe.com/watch/moving-to-adobe-premiere-pro-/

Premiere operates sort of like Avid and sort of like FCP. There are some things about it that drive me insane, but overall I feel like it’s a great replacement for FCP but not to Avid’s level yet. I expect Premiere Pro 6 to see huge improvements as the FCP crowd moves over and starts submitting feedback (I submitted about 10 feature requests the first day I used it).

Good luck with whatever you choose, and make sure to visit the Premiere or Avid forums here when you get stuck.

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Michael Hancock
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