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Did anyone press them on the possibility of a new MacPro?

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This seems like a small, but obvious omission in the feature list.

Thanks for the reply, Gabriel.

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Thanks, Paul.

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I’m well acquainted with Avid, used MC many times and owned a MCXpress in the late 90s and I do have a real appreciation for the reliability of the underlying foundation of the software. I’m not as keen on their interface these days, especially if I’m doing a lot of graphics, effects, and round tripping to After Effects.

What really bugs me about what’s happening with Premiere, is that metadata doesn’t seem to matter, so I don’t think adding reel numbers is going to make a difference, although I might try it.

Avid is Gold as far as media management. I have used FCP for over a decade and loved it and never had problems like this. If I tried moving some media offline and then link the clip to the wrong media file, I know for a fact that it wouldn’t allow it.

[Russ Johnson]

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the replies. Mike you make some really good points that I couldn’t agree on more about file names (see below), etc. I’ll try out your suggestions and also look into Bridge, but it does sound similar to Prelude (which I’ve used only once).

In the original scenario I ingested/transcoded files in Prelude from AVCHD files (camera original file structure archived on a Raid 1) to ProRes 422; these went to file folders with unique names based on time of day and date generated by Prelude in a project folder on the root directory of a media drive. I didn’t add any metadata to the media in Prelude. Next in Prelude, I selected: File> Send to Premiere and in Premiere put the clips into various bins.

Next morning I started the project and noticed that one of the clips was bringing up the wrong media. The clips did have the same name, that is: 00001.mov, but the media was in two different folders (differently named) and in fact, two different projects. I made the clip off line and then linked it to the correct media and I haven’t had this happen since.

However, just as a test, I found that I could take any clip in this project offline and then relink it to any media I chose, including media files on different disks, with different names, durations, frame rates, codecs, time code, etc. Once the clip is linked to the wrong media in Premiere, all the clip’s parameters change including duration and timecode, but the clip retains it’s original name. Nothing seems to really matter.

This is, as Daniel says, “a little scary.” Actually, I find it really scary. Just to make sure this wasn’t part of some kind of ‘Lost Weekend’ on my part, I just now took a DVCProHD clip off line and linked it to a random AVCHD file with a different name and frame rate. DVCProHD is a pretty robust format/codec with solid metadata and timecode. I then took it back to the original/correct media. Absolutely no warning from Premiere.

Would someone else try some of this? This is my first real project on Premiere and I’d like to know this isn’t just some dumb thing I’m doing.

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Just a thought. Prelude allows one to add markers with comments and other metadata to clips that Adobe claims become part of the media files and stay with it. I wonder if adding some of this stuff would make the clip/media link any more reliable.

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LOL on the biscotti & coffee. Walter (Mr. Biscardi, that is) very sorry for mangling your name. :-{ I’ve appreciated your articles and posts for years, so least I can do is get your name right.

Your idea on getting the media in place and right before it comes into the project is a good tip.

I don’t have a clue about programming, so I’m hoping that putting solid media management into Premiere won’t entail an impossible task. The interface and features are lovely so far, just this hitch about links to media. I find it a little alarming that I can link any media I please to a clip and have all the parameters of it then change in the project window/bin with no effort and no complaints from the program. This ripples through to a sequence of course.

Avid’s database is the foundation of the program, but it seems that it stops or hinders some feature development. It’s a real process to modify the parameters of a clip in Media Composer, but in certain situations, that’s the rub.

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Thanks so much guys. I had tried this, but must have typed in the name of the card wrong. Tried it again and it worked like a charm.

Should I also do this on the “opencl_supported_cards.txt” file?

Regards,

Russ

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Another big IF is: Will there be a version/support for MacPros?

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Thanks for the recommendation guys.