Ron Shook
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Steven,
[Steven L. Gotz] “It would be handy to be able to have bins work like Windows Explorer, but Adobe must not have recieved enough feature requests to put it into the product. Add your name to the feature request list by putting in your own request.”
That’s all well and good to have feature requests go through the standard channels and be toted up on lists for implementation when it can be gotten to, but that certainly doesn’t measure the anguish of the long form, heavy duty editor with thousands of sources, who grits his or her teeth all day, every day because a necessary feature wasn’t implimented because it wasn’t necessary to the short form or light editor, and didn’t get enough numbers on the list. Those absolute numbers of the feature request list need to be tempered with judgments about the quality and overarching nature of the requested features, not just the numbers.
So, I sure hope that Adobe has someone of stature in their shop that monitors this and other heavily used forums and that together with those like yourself, who perhaps have their ear, can provide that tempered judgement that goes beyond the absolute numbers to the core of useability.
Ron Shook
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Aanarav,
[Aanarav Sareen] “Could you please provide a link?”
But it only seems to be for the Creative Suite Products, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, In-Design and the like. They sell you Total Training for the AV stuff.
Answered my own question for now.
Ron Shook
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Richard,
Great little mini-tutorial and analysis of the problem/solutions that Adobe should/must address. I hope everyone reads and understands it. Adobe seems to have the framing in place but a number of the stairs and elevators are missing.
[Richard Milner] “1. Bridge’s metadata information isn’t the same information that you enter in PP’s internal shot metadata fields. You can enter a shot description in the PP bins, and it doesn’t show up in Bridge and vice versa. So the first thing that’s needed is for Adobe to get their act together and harmonize all the metadata fields between bridge and PP as well as its other apps.
2. There needs to be metadata that travels with the media. That’s what MXF and AAF are all about.
Timing is the cricital issue here. If Adobe postpones either one or both of these needs beyond the next release, IMHO it will not be a player for the enterprise and workgroup markets.”
In a very nice nutshell, yes.
[Richard Milner] “Integration with IT is where it is all going. Adobe knows this. That’s why it puzzles me why this aspect of their products has taken a back seat.”
I don’t think that “back seat,” is the right characterization. Maybe, temporarily postponed, or on the back burner for a time? You sorta answered your own question in the first paragraph:
[Richard Milner] “Members of standards groups are feverishly working to get xml-mxf worked out. By NAB it probably will be clearer when the hardware and software folk can start implementing it.”
XML-MXF wasn’t ready for implementation yet and what is more easily understandable by the NLE purchasing public is the Integration of the Production Studio applications. That had to take priority for version2, because it established the Adobe apps as the tops in this category of craft editing, making their competitors work to match it. Neither Avid nor particularly FCP have the XML-MXF thingy worked out entirely, so Adobe could postpone it for a time. Like you I hope that this postponement is over, and that it will take months rather than years to start addressing this significantly. We both know that Matrox is working feverishly on this for Axio and this could result in fairly rapid 3rd party enhancements or partner licensing to address this need. As you say, not everyone needs it (but it won’t be too long before everyone wants it.)
Ron Shook
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Ragnar & Craig,
[Ragnar] “I really like Premiere Pro 2.0, but I really got used to toggling between windows using Control + Tab. Does anyone have a work around? I miss it so.”
I sure hope someone has a work around. I’m not using PPro yet, but almost certainly will be by mid-year. By rights a pro NLE should have individual keyboard shortcuts to address the focus of each window, but to not have at least a toggle that cycles focus through the windows is really a slam at the pro editor.
Unacceptable!
By being able to focus windows individually from the keyboard, you can program keyboard mapping to double, triple or even quadruple the effect of individual quick keys and cut way down on the number of impossibly complex multi keystroke combination quick keys.
Ron Shook
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Mike,
[Michael Goldberg] “When I select the whole word, it kerns correctly, using the arrow tool. When I use the text tool, and place the cursor between letters to kern individual letters, the shortcut doesn’t work. Any idea why?”
I would assume because you haven’t selected a letter to kern?
Ron Shook
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Jan,
[Jan Crittenden Livingston] “My most favorite at this point in time is DLT/LTV tape storage solutions, data Storage tape. The cheaper they are the slower, but you can get a Dell for about $2250 and a about $50 for 200gigs. This will give you slightly faster than real time on HD and about 2X on DVCPRO50.”
When you first mentioned this to me in person several months ago, I admit that I sort of poo-pooed it in my mind. I’ve since researched it, and yeah, it looks like the way to go until holographic optical becomes readily available at prosumer prices which may take another 2 years, I’m guessing.
The LTO units are by far the best combination of capacity, speed and price over DLT and others. BTW the Dell LTO2 unit you mention actually sells for less than $1700 and their LTO3 unit (400 GB native capacity) is 3 times the speed (3X realtime for HD and 6X for 50) for less than $3500. Media cost for either unit is around 25 cents/GB. Dell’s pricing on these is as good as anyone’s. These should hold the fort for small outfits until Holographic.
The Dell connection:
https://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/compare.aspx/tapeb_sing?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd
Regards,
Ron Shook
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Bob & DRW,
Good work on my weekend giggle guys.
Ron Shook
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Erik,
Yes, there is an acceptable, perhaps not optimal, fix. You can’t capture or import this way, so there is an extra step, but you can break out the stereo track once it’s in the system into two locked and synced mono tracks, and do so simultaneously to any batch of selected clips in the bin that have the same audio properties.
Ron Shook
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Christopher,
[christopherkarcher] “I’ve had similar problems and discovered we were shooting near a cell tower.”
Oh my, I can see a 3rd party supplying tin hats for these camcorders. (g)
Ron Shook
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Steve,
[Steve Connor] “At the very least Panasonic get to go down in the history books as the Pioneers of HD solid state recording.”
You betcha! And they’ve done it right by wrapping their codecs in MXF. But Panasonic has also opened a can of worms, that if they aren’t nimble enough, will also gobble up their foundation. They have no choice, because no one’s big enough to stop the march of technology. I’m sure that when Panasonic set P2 in motion, they must have thought that solid state technology would have marched a little faster than it has, so now they have to scramble to present more cost effective alternatives for the short run, particularly for a camcorder in the under $10k market place.
The saving grace for the major players is that the large majority of the industry is more than a bit befuddled by the marching technology armies. Unfortunately that also makes ’em set back and wait.
Ron Shook