[Paul Del vecchio]

Unfortunately, in Premiere you can’t select an edge. I’ve been wanting this feature for such a long time. Premiere is a mouse heavy editing program and that’s the way they seem like they want to keep it. I’d love to see Adobe give people options as to whether they’d like to use the keyboard or the mouse.

Go to 6 minutes on my video here and you can see how to set up Premiere’s trimmer similar to Avid’s but I don’t really know how practical it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xrym5N26x5s

Todd, does Adobe take requests as far as features? If so, who do we talk to?

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[Paul Del vecchio]

When you play back a file, it always has to play back with a specified timebase, whether it be 24, 30, 60, etc. That’s how the “effect” – fast or slow motion – is achieved. If you played files shot back at different frame rates with the timebase of it’s frame rate (i.e. if you shot 120 fps and played back at 120fps, or if you shot 60 fps and played back at 60 fps) the file would be always 1 second long. How slow or fast the footage plays back depends on the timebase of your timeline.

So in order to experiment with speeds, you would have to pick your timebase and base your frame rate off of the timebase and the effect you are trying to achieve.

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[Paul Del vecchio]

Two things, what’s your playback and static image quality set at? It might be able to play back graphic files at full quality but not titles created with the title tool. Also, what’s the resolution of the Photoshop file compared to the one created inside of Premiere? The photoshop files might be more res than the ones created in Premiere. Also, you should always try to create titles in Premiere at a larger res than the timeline res just for safe measure.

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[Paul Del vecchio]

Additionally, AMA doesn’t not support AVDHD so you’ll have to import the files rather than linking to them. Other than that, it works very nicely once converted to DNxHD.

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[Paul Del vecchio]

In order to do that, select the Quicktime Format, then change the codec to h.264. Note though that this will give you bigger files than if you export using the h.264 FORMAT with the .mp4 file extension.

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[Paul Del vecchio]

I’ve had that same issue with Avid EDLs inside FCP as well. What version of Premiere are you on? If you’re in CS5, you can export a FCP XML instead. That’s more accurate and brings in more effects. That would be your best bet if you’re on CS5.

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[Paul Del vecchio]

You can’t change the timeline’s dimensions, but you can create a new timeline with those custom dimensions and cut and paste your video into it. You have to select DESKTOP instead of a preset in the Timeline settings. When you do that, you can enter the custom width of the video. I assume this video would be for something like WEB only since it’s not following a standard video dimension?

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[Paul Del vecchio]

Q will bring you to the in point, then hit ALT+[ to set the “in point” of the work area. W will bring you to the out point then use ALT+] to set the “out point” of the work area.

As far as switching the video size, are you talking about changing the sequence settings or changing the actual video itself?

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[Paul Del vecchio]

Automatic Duck is still a better tool. Premiere after crashes Avid when sending AAfs to it. I recently sent a short scene over to FCP from Avid using Premiere as the middle-man and it worked okay. I would still say though that Automatic Duck is a better tool, as it brings over more things like volume adjustments, speed changes, etc. Premiere seems to only bring over the most basic of effects, like possibly crossfades.

I’m actually going to be purchasing Automatic Duck to bring Avid sequences over to FCP for finishing in COLOR. Premiere will work, but won’t bring over as many fx and volume adjustments & titles.

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[Paul Del vecchio]

In addition to the information in the link that Todd provided, if you decide to output ProRes4444 instead of the other formats, it will be 48 bits instead of 32 bits.

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