[Robert Withers]

Thanks, John, but I need help or information with the Mac OS I have, the iphone I have, and the itunes and ios that I’m being prompted to upgrade to, not other software or hardware I don’t have.
I take your point about the cloud as an alternative to a machine backup. I guess I have to get over my paranoia about having my personal data in Apple’s cloud.
BTW, the reason I’m using MacOS 10.8.5 is because I’m working on a multi-year film project that I already migrated once with some issues and don’t want to change OS and NLE versions till it’s finished.
Best,
Robert

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

I wonder what OS you are running on this machine and how it runs? Are you using Pr CC 2017?

I have a similar machine but with NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M
VRAM (Total): 1024 MB
16 G RAM

I am running Mac OS 10.8.5 and Pr CC “2013” because I haven’t wanted to update in the middle of several long projects.
Not an answer but thanks for your thoughts.
Robert

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

Plus the Clip Mixer mirrors the Volume Band in the Timeline and also has a memory. So maybe it’s good to work with the Clip Mixer open when working on audio tracks. Still trying to understand the Gain Pop-up, since it’s got normalization controls that I don’t see elsewhere.

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

Actually, I’m reminded there’s a third way: to adjust volume in the Effect Controls Panel. The clunkiest method of all, but it may be reversible by resetting Volume to 0 or perhaps by moving the effect.
My beloved Visual Quickstart Guide says the audio levels are mirrored between the Effect Controls and the Timeline, so maybe this is the answer. We would dispense with the convenient Audio Gain pop-up, which doesn’t seem to have a memory or be mirrored anywhere.

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

I wonder if you are talking about “captions” made in the titler or some other kind of captions. I understand that titles made in the titler are actually an “effect” embedded in the Premiere Project file and not retrievable. At least for CC “2013.” Not separate files like in FCP 7. Some folks make titles and subtitles in AE, which seem to be separate files.

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

Thanks for all the posts on this. Where do y’all place preview files? Also in the master project folder? Is speed of access an issue?
Thanks,
Robert

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

Thanks for your thoughts, Noah. What are some of the “great benefits” of not being able to move clips around independently of the “primary storyline?”
I’ve heard that a workaround to the absence of tracks (way to cheat the system) is to create some kind of a dark or null clip as the primary storyline and link all other clips to that. Is that true?
Looking for a way out of the Adobe rental model . . .
Cheers,
Robert

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

Righto, John. But I don’t want to wait for my current computer to die. I want to retire it gracefully and keep it around so I will be able to open old files and work with the older OS and older software in case I might need to. Larry Jordan says he does this.

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

Hello John,
I too find this a persistent problem with computer manufacturers/software. When I worked in 16 mm we used editing devices that were 20-30 years old with no problem. Eg, flatbed Steenbeck editing desks.

My sense is that periodically (5-10 years?) we are forced to buy new stuff because of the conscious-or-not collusion of computer manufacturers and software publishers.

I am editing my film/video on a Mac computer running 10.8.5 and both computer and software date to 2013. This works very well but I am paying rental on software which enables the publisher to continually update with versions that I can’t use on my system. But I’m working on a long-term project so don’t want to change software, even if I could access versions that would work on this hardware.

We don’t have to buy new stuff as often as they want us to, but we will have to buy it. Meanwhile I want to get out of the software rental game and go to old or new purchase software that will be quirky, limited, or unstable and not how I want to work. And I don’t expect to keep any particular hardware running forever if I want to use it everyday.

I miss the machine tools ☺

Good luck,
Robert

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

Thanks Noah. I’d love to know what Mac OS is needed for current DaVinci. The website doesn’t say and I don’t want to go through a whole trial experiment to find out it won’t work on my Mac OS 10.8.5. Looking for an alternative to the endless rental of Adobe, though.
Robert

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City