[Richard Milner]

Tim,

[Timothy Kurkoski] “I’m a little mystified in general what advantage you gain in using PrEl to edit your proxies over PrPro, and how you intend to take your data between the two.”

You make excellent points about PREL. The idea behind elements instead of PPRo was to find a less expensive solution to use on producers’desk tops or others in the enterprise to search for video using the low rez proxies-putting them into a timeline. If I had 20 or 30 seats of browsers, the cost for PPRO would be pretty high. For the producers, you don’t need much more than cuts and dissolves with very little additional stuff.

Right now PrEl couldn’t do the job I want, but maybe this will get the Adobe folks thinking. It doesn’t have to element. It could be something a little more sophisticated than a flash player with timecode referenced to MXF(XMP?) or some other metadata scheme that would point the EDL to the H Quality stuff to populate the timeline in PPro or some other craft editor.

[Richard Milner]

Mark,

Good to hear from you. Hope 2006 is starting off well for you.

I am awaiting my first copy of PP2.0. How does Bridge slow stuff down? Can you envision it doing something in the future? If so, what?

Richard

[Richard Milner]

The reason for my questions is focused on the possibility of using elements for proxy editing with PPRo and other software components.

There would be thousands of hours of low rez stuff that corresponds to some higher rez stuff. XMP or MXF would be the standards that a relational database would track between the proxies and the high rez stuff. The proxy stuff would be time coded mpeg4 low bit rate – maybe as low as 1 or 2 mbits a second.

Does this sound like a possibility?

[Richard Milner]

[Timothy Kurkoski] “I just tried it (caveat: I’m still running beta of PP), and it works. It forces you to convert the Elements project to a Pro project, but it does work.”

Does elements use timecode if it is on the tape?

[Richard Milner]

I thought I read in a press release that you could take an elements project into Pro somewhere? Did anyone else see this, or am I dreaming 🙂

[Richard Milner]

Now that the limeline question is answered.

Does bridge keep track of each clip independent of the project?

And if so, is PPRo smart enough to consult bridge when it is trying to open clips on another machine on a network?

[Richard Milner]

Is there any way to get to look at the timelines from bridge through the project? Can you drill down?

[Richard Milner]

I’m sure that Marisu and I will have lots of questions.:)

[Richard Milner]

Jacob,

thanks for the info.

Richard

[Richard Milner]