Steve Brame
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Adobe’s Audition would be a good choice, since you can now roundtrip from Premiere. Audition has some very good restoration tools. We also use iZotope’s RX 2 , but it’s not inexpensive, and I have a hard time determining if it’s any more adept than Audition.
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Man…how’d you figure THAT out? Nice catch! I think you should run out and buy some lottery tickets quick!
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OK, I was so interested that Apple wasn’t showing, that I totally missed Bud! I’m getting old….
Crap! I just went to the site again and looked at the raffle prizes and started hyperventilating.
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[Mike Molenda] “I think it’s going to take a big name player (I’m sure more than a handful of indies have already done it) cutting a feature on Premiere to prove it can be done before the software really gets taken seriously.”
Such as during the move from film to digital, or linear to non-linear, or 8-track to cassettes.
OK, the last one was just for fun – sort of…
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[Daniel Frome] ” I don’t believe there is one “best” NLE”
There certainly is! It’s the one that you like the best! I edited with Avid. It was ‘the best’. Then when Adobe developed the CS line of software, I gave it a try at both NAB and the suite at B&H. I liked it better, so for me it became ‘the best’. See how magnanimous I can be? In the interim I also have edited with FCP(several versions) both at NAB and B&H, and I’d always said that if Apple would port a version of FCP to Windows, I’d switch. But alas, I don’t do Macs so FCP wasn’t a viable option for me. However, I did notice, as many MANY post-FCPX converts to PPro are discovering, there isn’t a whole lot of difference between the two, certainly not enough to support the hypnotic reaction that we saw for years. At SuperMeet last year, I could have sworn that I heard the hypnotist snap his fingers, and multitudes awakened from their trance.
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[Benjamin Lundin] “Try to be open and not compare everything to your Premiere.”
Years editing on Premiere – 5
Years editing on MC – 6It’s not ‘my Premiere’. It’s what I prefer currently, although I’m exploring others as we speak. I simply choose to correct misconceptions as they are offered. The claim was made that in Premiere you cannot trim in the timeline. I merely pointed out that you can. Then it was morphed into a competition between which platform is easier to trim in, totally ignoring the fact that I had simply and effectively corrected a misconception. Claims were made that MC is easier. Having edited with Avid for many years I felt that this was a misconception, however, having not used the newer version with ‘Smart Tools’, I asked if the procedure had changed. Given the procedure, and applying simple math, I easily demonstrated that Avid at least took more steps that “my Premiere” to perform a simple trim. It should stand at that, but probably wont. If the Avid trim method pleases you, then by all means stick with it. But please don’t confuse your enjoyment with ease of use, unless in the context of – it’s what you are used to, so of course it’s more comfortable for you, and therefore ‘easier’ for you.
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“98% of all computer issues can be solved by simply pressing ‘F1’.”
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“If you would read my post again”
Hey, I’ll do better than that, I’ll quote it!Here we go…
“I just go near where the cut is with my marker”
At least one keypress or mouse-click.“press the “U” button to go into trim mode.”
A second keypress.“click on the source monitor, or if you want to trim the clip on the right of the marker you just press the composer (right monitor).”
At least one mouse-click per direction you wish to trim.“Then you kan either trim with your keys or use j-k-l tro trim in real time.”
The remaining “bunch of key presses”.In other words, as I said…
“a couple of keypresses, then a click, then a mouse-click, then a bunch of keypresses”.Or perhaps my math is wrong. Even so, my count would have to be REALLY off to beat “one keypress and drag”. Still, this is has really gotten silly, and off point, and I apologize for allowing it to. Avid most definitely has the creds for film editing, and I’ll not question it, but it certainly did NOT achieve this lofty position because of it’s ‘ease’ in trimming procedure. I just thought it a bit humorous that it was the only specific offered, and I ran with it. Again…sorry.
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“98% of all computer issues can be solved by simply pressing ‘F1’.”
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[Daniel Frome] ” this has been the standard victim card flashed by many people.”
Funny, never considered myself a “victim”. I would tend to consider those in the FCP world the true “victims” after sitting with many, many of them after last year’s SuperMeet, and then watching them abandon FCP for PPro and Avid since that day, much as they felt abandoned themselves.
Which brings up a point – if an editing platform is to be considered for feature film work, wouldn’t it be better to use one that has had a steady rate of improvement and consistently answers it’s user’s concerns, rather than totally pull the rug out from under the pro user base at a critical time? And yes, I certainly realize that Apple is rebuilding FCP, but tell that to the legions of pros who left and are not going back. Apple made it quite clear that it’was changing the FCP market focus from pro to prosumer.
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“98% of all computer issues can be solved by simply pressing ‘F1’.”
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[Daniel Frome] “You just feel more creative when cutting in Avid”
To be more accurate, this should read “I just feel more creative when cutting in Avid.”
And I don’t doubt that you do, but don’t speak for others. There are a ton of FCP editors (both former and current) who would disagree.
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[Benjamin Lundin] “Since Media Composer 5 you can trim right on the timeline. And by the way, going in to trim mode is one of the fastest things to do. If you know the keyboard commands you can trim very fast in Avid. “
Nice, but since Premiere has almost always allowed trimming on the timeline (at least since the CS series started), it’s hardly a comparison. And with PPro, you don’t even have to “go into trim mode”, you’re already there! Just trim! Also, you can quite easily set PPro’s keyboard shortcuts to mimic MC, it’s included for free. Not sure how they handle trimming with these shortcuts, since again with PPro you never have to enter into ‘Trim Mode’, but if you are so inclined, I’m sure there is a comparable keyboard shortcut to open the Trim Window.
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“98% of all computer issues can be solved by simply pressing ‘F1’.”
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions