Paul Neumann
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I’ve seen this too. Also seen it with multiple desktops open. Have not seen it when only PPro is running.
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And yes, it’s possible to pick a poor choice if where your career is heading diverges from the type of tasks your tool is best suited to accomplish. Not because one can’t make the other tool work. But because one might not be able to do so as efficiently. And like it or not, efficiency is an increasing issue when budgets and productions schedules are under such wicked pressure.
Man, that’s about it in a nutshell for me. I like FCPX. I really do, but it’s a poor choice for me due to it only being on one platform and needing so many different additional programs that the people I work with around the world may or may not use. Creative Suite has made me a better Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign artist. It’s made me a better After Effects user, Editor, Mixer and Colorist. My career requires me to be all these things. And the same requirements are on the people I work with. For me and my position, CC is most efficient.
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I am seeing this too intermittently on a Macbook Pro. Usually happens when I’m running video apps (PPro, AE or Speedgrade) on multiple desktops. Never seen it with PS, AI or any other graphics or Office program open. 2 or more video-centric apps going and I expect to see it. Wasn’t sure if it was the multiple desktop thing or not, but it’s definitely a new feature of Yosemite.
I do not see it on the iMac.
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Yeah the tag panel is new since 2 releases ago I think. I don’t see how you could assign a keyboard shortcut to a tag panel as you can have an infinite number of panels each with like 30 different tags. I think Adobe tried to make it as easy as possible with just a click–not even a double click. Just tap it and it’s there.
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Prelude creates an Ingest Date when you bring it in, but it should always show you a Created Date if that info is available. That’s almost always in the camera metadata.
You can always add a tag with whatever date/copy you want.
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I use Prelude a lot and I love to work alone! Get off my lawn! It’s great for exactly what you’re needing to do. I’m hardly ever at a shoot anymore, but cards/drives just get dropped off and the hunt begins. The advantages to using it for me is I create a tag template for each gig that includes camera name, composition (CU, MCU, 2 shot, etc.), Day #, Talent/Character, Broll, interior, exterior and on and on. So I ingest the shots and run through them quickly tagging them then go back and start subclipping. It’s much easier to remove unwanted camera roll with the excellent waveform display you get along with the video and marking multiple parts of a clip is a breeze. You literally hit one key to add an in and you immediately have an open description window to type in, hit enter and set the out. Done.
Sort all the clips by subclip or however you want, put them in bins, whatever. Then highlight anything you’ve created and send to PPro and it shows up just like you had it. All the media is then searchable by the tags or descriptions and those same things can be used to create smart folders in your project bin.
The big thing is it was MADE to do what you want to do. Yes, you can mark and subclip in PPro but it’s way clumsy compared to doiing it Prelude. And what you do in Prelude stays with the media unlike what happens in PPro. So down the road if you load a clip you’ve marked in Prelude into another project the markers and subclips will come along for the ride. You only have to find the best part of a clip once and it will always be there for you. Or you just return to the original Prelude project and find what you want that way. Easier than going back to a big edit project.
Thanks Alex, but I’d consider myself the resident fan!
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Prelude is all you need. It can do all that in a snap.
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Check how the bin is being sorted. Usually total craziness means you’ve got the “File Size” or “Duration” criteria active by mistake.
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I would nest each layer which in effect lets just that layer be read as a sequence. Then you can easily load all the sequences into media encoder at once and output them.
You could even select all these new sequences in the project bin, choose export and it will send them all to media encoder at once.
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That whole workflow is just amazingly cool. From the most rudimentary to the highest of tech. Inspiring.