[Stephen Eckelberry]

I don’t use project manager anymore. The Plumepack plug in has solved all those issues for me.

[Stephen Eckelberry]

I share hard drives and projects with others, so I create a PREMIERE folder for each project on the hard drive that has the media. I have a hard drive set aside for Dropbox – I use the desktop app, and all my autosaves go there. If I hand someone a hard drive, I will copy over the projects to my another drive.

[Stephen Eckelberry]

Same here. I used DaVinci to convert it to DNX. Youmight try Media Encoder and batch convert the clips to prores or DNX, that could work

[Stephen Eckelberry]

Have you tried converting it to prores 422?

[Stephen Eckelberry]

Last year I edited a whole feature film off of a 4TB SSD card using only proxies. The original footage was kept on over 30TB of external storage. I only touched the original footage at the end, when we were preparing for color. So yes, you can swap out the proxies for the original, it happens all the time. In fact, if you don’t have the originals in place, you will get an error message when you try to export telling you that the sequence contains offline material (which includes proxies). Just do a test first, keep your full-res material on one hard drive, and your proxies and project on another, than turn off the hard drive with the full-res. You will figure it out, and then you can create the same scenario putting the full-res on a server online someplace.

[Stephen Eckelberry]

I do it all the time. Normally I send proxies via dropbox to another editor along with audio files and have him do an assembly and then he sends it back to me and I do the online. I don’t really need Team Project for that.

[Stephen Eckelberry]

I think we all run into this problem – even on later versions of PPT. I used to get this on FCP 7 once in a while. I think it’s graphics card issue and computer/RAM issue. Because I never get this problem on my desktop computer, but it occasionally happens on my laptop which isn’t really set up for editing and has a cheap card. Have you tried converting your footage to ProRes? your system might have an easier time working with a less compressed codec then mpeg or h264.

[Stephen Eckelberry]

First, go to Preferences>Timeline “Audio transition default duration” and set how long you want your audio transition.

Then go to your Effects tab>Audio Transitions>Crossfade and pick one of the transitions, “Constant Power” is default and works fine, then right click and “Set Selected as Default Transition”

[Stephen Eckelberry]

I use multi-formats all the time, like 4×3 6K and 16×9 4K.

To do your warp, first nest the shot shot you want to warp, then open the nested sequences for that shot and change the nested sequence settings to match the shot – frame size and frame rate. Now that the nested sequence settings match the shot, then you can do your warp within that sequence, and then go back to your edit timeline.

[Stephen Eckelberry]

Because I would do more than graphics, I might play with keyframes on a still, reframes, change a slow mo and do a nicer temp mix – tweak the edit essentially. Of course I can do that all in Avid, but I am more adept at doing that in Premiere.
Thank you guys for all your input.

Stephen Eckelberry