Nat Ives
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I use “preset” for wb. By pressing the round button, I’m able to dial in the color temp. That color temp is always displayed in the LCD display.
When I manually wb on A or B, the color temp displays momentarily. (I’ve moved away from this method of white-balancing, in favor of locking in color temp w/”preset”.)
Nat Ives
Manager & Lab Instructor
Communication & Media Studies Production Center
University of Southern Maine
Portland, ME
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I think a similar approach will work in CS6, as well. May not be quite as elegant.
Nat Ives
Manager & Lab Instructor
Communication & Media Studies Production Center
University of Southern Maine
Portland, ME
ives@maine.edu
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[Brook Hinton] “Great, thanks Nat! We’ll give it a whirl.”
Please let me know how you make out, especially if you find any problems or other workarounds!
Nat Ives
Manager & Lab Instructor
Communication & Media Studies Production Center
University of Southern Maine
Portland, ME
ives@maine.edu
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[Brook Hinton] “Do you have them move or delete the existing database at the prompt when changing the location”
We choose “Delete”. I haven’t noticed much difference either way. That seems to be a fairly benign function.
Nat Ives
Manager & Lab Instructor
Communication & Media Studies Production Center
University of Southern Maine
Portland, ME
ives@maine.edu
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I am in a similar position – administering (and teaching in) a multi-user environment. Most of our students store their work on firewire drives. I have found the issues that you describe to be problematic. Here’s what I prescribe to our students:
1. Create a “master folder” on the external drive for a project.
2. When starting a brand-new project, set the “master folder” as the destination for the Media Cache and Media Cache Files. So, as they initially import files into the project, all cache files go the “master folder”.
3. Each subsequent time that they re-open the project, I have them first open Premiere Pro (not the actual project) and create a “dummy project”. No need to worry about project settings, since they’re actually not going to use this “dummy project” to edit. I let them use the default title “Untitled Project” For file location, they use the default. (The computers in our lab are “frozen” with Deep Freeze, so the “dummy project” simply goes away when the machine shuts down.)
4. Using the “dummy project”, they then set the Media Cache and Media Cache Files location to their “master folder” (see Step #1 above) for that particular project.
5. Once Cache locations have been set in the dummy project, they can then open their project file. Ideally (!!), the original project should open and automatically link up with the Cache files that were created in Step #2. Any subsequent imports will need to cache,, but the previously-cached files should work without conforming. There is still a relatively brief ”loading files” process, but this is unavoidable and no different than FCP.
We don’t set the “store next to original media when possible” option as this simply creates more files.
One challenge is working on multiple projects in the same work period. The best thing to do is to close the first project, open Premiere, set the new cache location for the next project, and then open the new project.
I hope this makes some sense. It seems awkward, but once the students do it a few times, they have no problems.
Nat Ives
Manager & Lab Instructor
Communication & Media Studies Production Center
University of Southern Maine
Portland, ME
ives@maine.edu
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“One cool FCP style addition to Premiere Pro CS6 is to Shift+Option+Drag to duplicate a clip directly over the original. You can also Option+Drag to copy a clip to another part of the Timeline.”
Thank you!! (Is there a way to accomplish that in CS5.5?)
Nat Ives
Manager & Lab Instructor
Communication & Media Studies Production Center
University of Southern Maine
Portland, ME
ives@maine.edu
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Thanks. Seems to be working just fine now.
Nat Ives
Manager & Lab Instructor
Communication & Media Studies Production Center
University of Southern Maine
Portland, ME
ives@maine.edu
https://www.facebook.com/CMS.Production