[Simon Ubsdell]

[Herb Sevush] “However, unlike X, it’s only when editing to the timeline that this “overlay” function prevents overwriting, not when simply moving clips already on the timeline. Clearly this overlay function could be added to moving clips as well, it’s up to Adobe to see if they ever implement that option.”

For a bit of perspective on this, it’s worth pointing out that this “overlay” function is not unique to Premiere.

Resolve has a similar operation called “Place On Top”, which unlike Premiere has a keyboard shortcut (namely F12). It’s not however quite as elegant as the Premiere operation.

And of course if anyone can still remember back that far, this was also available in FCP 7 and it was called “Superimpose” and it had the same keyboard shortcut as Resolve, namely F12. Again it was not as well implemented as the Premiere overlay option.

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[Simon Ubsdell]

[Angelika Blaschke] “So, instead of “Shift +K” I would prefer a doubleclick-on-the-spacebar. Is it possible to determine DOUBLECLICKS as a shortcut?
“

As far is I know, you can’t assign shortcuts to double-clicks, however there are so many different ways you could map this.

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[Simon Ubsdell]

[Angelika Blaschke] “And: do YOU probably know on how to bring back the playhead back to it’s starting position?”

I’m not sure what you mean. Play Around should do this for you – is that not happening?

If you mean how does Yair’s suggestion work, you need to make sure to set an InPoint that you want to come back to, and you can do this by hitting “I” on the keyboard. Then when you hit Shift+I it will return to that point.

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[Angelika Blaschke] “Is there a “button” in Premiere for that as well (for clicking it with the mouse?)
“

If you click on the plus sign at the bottom right hand corner of the Program Monitor, you can customise your button palette to add this option.

Hovering over the button options shows you the label for what each one is.

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[Simon Ubsdell]

[Tom Sefton] “we used dynamic link”

I asked Walter Soyka a while back what he thought dynamic link was good for and he said:

NAB demos?

I don’t use dynamic link much for anything other than text templates or relatively simple custom transitions. For moderate to heavy comps, or for a project that needs to be shared with others, I generally want real media files on disk to avoid any potential headaches.

Although that sounds cynical, I think it’s probably good advice in the long run. I wonder if part of your problem stems from this?

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[Simon Ubsdell]

I’m talking about specific system installation issues/conflicts rather than the choice of OS.

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[Simon Ubsdell]

Thanks for the very detailed reply.

It sounds as though Adobe tech support really let you down badly there, but name me an NLE that has good tech support these days!

Were you using any plug-ins? These frequently cause conflicts that are tricky to diagnose.

Overall your experience, while incredibly frustrating, sounds atypical.

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[Simon Ubsdell]

[Tom Sefton] “Went back to dip our toes in the premiere water for a project recently and had some major issues with import, export and performance. “

I don’t doubt you had real issues, and I’m sorry to hear that.

What were the specifics of your problems?

In my experience the kind of thing you are talking about suggests system issues rather than grave malfunctioning of the application.

Of course, you could be right and Premiere Pro just fundamentally “doesn’t work”, but it would be reasonable to expect more evidence before arriving at that conclusion.

FCP X is unpleasantly sluggish on my current work system configuration but I appreciate that there are compatibility reasons for this. I have optimised my system for a range of applications and it doesn’t suit FCP X. But I don’t for that reason suggest that FCP X itself has performance issues.

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[Simon Ubsdell]

[Tony West] “Follow me?”

Ah, sorry – I didn’t follow you, hence my reply just now.

I think Herb has answered the point though. Video and audio are “connected” in the sense of you have used here unless you unconnect them.*

I was talking more specifically about FCP X “clip connections” created whenever a clip is placed anywhere other than the Primary Storyline. In the video I simply showed you you can replicate the clip connection thing using the Premiere Group function.

* From the manual:

In the Project panel, clips that contain both video and audio appear as a single item. When you add the clip to the sequence, however, the video and audio appear as two objects, each in its appropriate track (provided you specified both the video and audio sources when adding the clip). The video and audio portions of the clip are linked so that when you drag the video portion in a Timeline panel, the linked audio moves with it, and vice versa. For this reason, the audio/video pair is called a linked clip. In a Timeline panel, each part of the linked clip is labeled with the same clip name, which is underlined. The video is marked [V] and the audio is marked [A]. Ordinarily, all editing functions act on both parts of a linked clip. When you want to work with the audio and video individually, you can unlink them. When you do, you can use the video and audio as though they were not linked; even the clip names no longer appear underlined or bear the [V] and [A] labels. Even so, Premiere Pro keeps track of the link. If you relink the clips, they indicate whether they have been moved out of sync, and by how much. You can have Premiere Pro automatically resynchronize the clips. You can also create a link between previously unlinked clips. This is particularly useful if you need to synchronize video and audio that were recorded separately.

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[Simon Ubsdell]

[Tony West] “What I am saying is that I want them connected every time by default.”

That’s what I am not entirely convinced about.

Why would you always want to make a clip connection? What benefits are you always getting?

Of course there are cases where it’s useful, but I can’t believe they make up anything like a majority of the instances where you’d use the Connect edit function.

Do you for instance never find it not useful to have the connection automatically made for you?

I’m not saying you’re wrong – I just can’t see it.

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