Simon Ubsdell
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “a week ago I would never have thought of premiere”
To coin a phrase – “it just works”!
Hmmmm – I must copyright that. Oh no, hang on …
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It’s kind of like shooting fish in a barrel for Adobe and AVID right now. But AVID should line up their Dennis Radeke to come and chat on these forums …
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[Chris Kenny] “Simon’s suggested approach of putting the music in the primary storyline isn’t some crazy workaround”
Just been testing out my theory cutting an instant music promo and boy is it a fast way to work – and so much fun. The way that clips “get out of each other’s way” means you can really play around pretty much without thinking about the editing process. Editing on the primary storyline would be so much more cumbersome and fiddly.
And no need to keep switching to the Position tool which as someone rightly pointed out is there more than anything as a transitional aid for traditionally trained editors, but somehow actually negates the logic of the magnetic timeline.
And the really great thing is you don’t have to give a moment’s thought to track assignments when adding material so you can stack up different options as much as you like without any worries.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “I am *such* a gripey sod about this whole thing”
You may be a gripey sod but you’re about as funny and eloquent as it’s possible for a gripey sod to get. Keep up the entertainment. I’ll be sorry when all this has died down (what “never”, I hear you say?) and we won’t be able to read your purple prose every minute of every day 😉
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[Chris Knight] ” And there’s no reason to doubt that process won’t continue.”
There seems to be a real pace and energy to the way that Adobe are moving forward with all their apps, Premiere especially, and a genuine desire both to innovate and at the same time listen to what their users really need. No real sign of anything comparable from AVID or for that matter that other company beginning with the latter A … what was it called now? Sorry, can’t remember …
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[Craig Seeman] “In addition to Connected clips you can do an Overwrite by hitting D”
I don’t think this is a good idea for cutting music promos – you really don’t want to have anything on the primary storyline so you don’t have to think about any kind of rippling behaviour throwing you out of sync (oh the irony!). Of course you could do it if you were super-careful …
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[Owen Wexler] “Is there even a “Mark To Markers” function or a way to put markers on the sequence like there was in FCP7 and before?”
Yikes, you want it to behave like a real, grown-up editing application!?
You’re out of luck, sorry. Markers are about as basic as it gets in FCPX – and you can’t apply markers to the timeline, only to clips.
You could apply markers to the master music clip which might help a bit but that’s about it.
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Simon Ubsdell
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “But simon, isn’t that kind of surprising? that the default, the main, primary storyline location for edited video is completely inappropriate for edits timed to music?”
Leave me alone – I was just trying to help the guy out! I didn’t say it wasn’t an a**e-about-face way to work.
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It’s so refreshing to have you come on here and lay out the “roadmap” for where Adobe is planning to take the product. And the special offer is a great idea. Everything Adobe are doing right now with Premiere feels like it’s right on the money.
Or are you planning on discontinuing it next week without letting anybody know in advance?
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Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
http://www.tokyo-uk.com