[Pierpaolo Ferlaino]

As long as the two machines have the same version of cc and you laptop is powerful enough to deal with your footage you won’t have any problem. Just work on an external hard drive so you can easily move between the two systems and don’t forget to backup.

[Pierpaolo Ferlaino]

It’s not really about being stuck but I feel I use the mouse more on premiere than I do in media composer… For example I want to trim the right side of a clip… while in media composer it’s a single keystroke in premiere I have to cycle through trim modes = multiple keystrokes so it’ faster to use the mouse…
While in trim mode on v1 I want add to the trim operation a clip on v2… just a keystroke in media composer, shift click in premiere… I want to go back and trim only the clip on v1 just a keystroke in media composer, shift click in premiere…
I have a timeline with 12 audio tracks and I want to select track 1 to 8… shift click and drag track selectors from 1 to 8 in media composer shift click in premiere selects all tracks then shift click on each track I don’t need… and other small things that could work better in an editing system where you can really map almost everything to the keyboard….

[Pierpaolo Ferlaino]

I never edited footage from a as72 so you should wait for someone else to help but dealing with footage that doesn’t have unique file and/or reel names is very tricky especially in an offline / online workflow so I would probably go for Prores HQ with those files, assign them their original name and appending the card name as reference (so you’ll have, for example, c0001_card1 c0002_card1 then c0001_card2 c0002_card2) and even assign a reel name to the transcoded files if possible… obviously I won’t conform them to the original xavci when the editing is done…
but as I said I never edited as72 files and hopefully there’s a better way to deal with them…

[Pierpaolo Ferlaino]

I don’t know about Lightworks but I use both media composer and premere. You can easily configure keyboard shortcuts to map almost every function in premiere but I still find myself using the mouse more than I would like to do while I can easily trim, select tracks and do more stuffs keeping both my hand on the keyboard when using media composer.

[Pierpaolo Ferlaino]

Maybe you’re looking at presets… You can manually change the export settings (codec, resolution, frame rate, field order etc…) and save you own preset for future use…

[Pierpaolo Ferlaino]

I edited Sony FS7 1080p footage on a 27′ iMac last summer…. Premiere handles those files natively but I totally agree with David…
Transcode them to ProRes HQ… You will get better performance and you won’t need to conform them later…

[Pierpaolo Ferlaino]

Folder structure should not be a problem with Premiere and it looks like something went wrong with the files themselves… Maybe some kind of corruption….
Did you try if VLC can open / playback those file?
You can also try to open and convert them using Resolve to see if it works…

[Pierpaolo Ferlaino]

Ok, not really solved it but I found a workaround. I just dropped a filter (brightness / contrast in my case) leaving the settings untouched so the image is not affected but it needs to be rendered… and it renders frame blending as well.

[Pierpaolo Ferlaino]

Thanks for your answer.
I tried the expression you mentioned but, for some reason, it does work if I link the values to a slider.

What I’m trying to achieve is not a random blinking but a light constantly flashing at some speed then constantly slowing down to another value (eventually speeding up again at the original value).
At the moment I pre-rendered a clip with my flashing light and used the timewarp effect but I’m guessing if it’s possible to do it using expression in some way.

[Pierpaolo Ferlaino]

Thanks Andy…. That is really helpful!