[Tom Olsen]

You can also option/alt drag the clip to anywhere on the timeline to dupe the clip.

Film Editor, Avid Media Composer Editor, Adobe Premiere CC Editor, FCP 7 Editor.

[Tom Olsen]

Try updating the CC apps. Premiere Pro CC 2017 11.1.2 update was released on June 13 and Adobe highly recommends updating.

Film Editor, Avid Media Composer Editor, Adobe Premiere CC Editor, FCP 7 Editor.

[Tom Olsen]

I have a similar Mac Pro and I got a 512 SSD for my boot drive. I got a sled from Macsales.com that will hold an SSD but you can also use the extra SATA connector in the optical drive bay. I have a second smaller SSD instslled there that I use as a cache disk for AE and Premiere Preview files but you could use that connector to also hold a 4th internal drive too. I also installed a USB 3 PCI card and esata PCI card so I can read newer external drives faster. I upgraded the video card to a GTX 780 card- it’s not a Mac version so I lose seeing the apple during start up but it works great. You have to modify the supported cards txt file inside PP and AE but once you do those programs will use all the cuda cores on that card.

Film Editor, Avid Media Composer Editor, Adobe Premiere CC Editor, FCP 7 Editor.

[Tom Olsen]

I had a problem where I edited a layer in a .psd that I had imported as separate layers, which knocked all the layers offline and then gave me the “generic error” message when I tried to relink. The workaround I found was to right click on the file and choose “edit offline file” and change the name to remove the ” /filename.psd” part, leaving just the layer name. I opened up the original .psd in photoshop and used the Script> export layers as files to make individual .psd files, Then PP would let me relink the files to the layers and then they would show up in the timeline

Film Editor, Avid Media Composer Editor, Adobe Premiere CC Editor, FCP 7 Editor.

[Tom Olsen]

We used to acquire images on film and then jam it into an SD delivery method.

Acquisition resolution usually exceeds the delivery resolution…

4K gives us a better image to work with so I welcome it-we can always down-convert it for transmission. Just recently we would shoot on HD and deliver a SD master for broadcast on SD stations.

Lets just skip 4K and go straight to 8K!

Film Editor, Avid Media Composer Editor, Adobe Premiere CC Editor, FCP 7 Editor.

[Tom Olsen]

So you want us “pros” to have to pay $500 to get our tracks out split (hardly an “obscure” feature, even for the most mundane project), and then have to pay a la carte for features that other NLE’s have standard, plus not be able to open the multitude of projects we have created? AND we have to wait and see if someone actually takes the time to make a plug -in or if Apple deems a feature worthy of putting back into the app? No thanks. As someone who makes a living as an editor, I am glad I have 23 years of Avid experience to fall back on, since FCP7 has now been deemed EOL by Apple and FCPX is absolutely not suited for the types of programs I work on.
The win -win is that us “pros” will be hired to do the jobs that require NLE’s with the “obscure” features and the “indies” (whatever that means anyway) will get the projects that can be done with a crippled NLE like FCPX.I think in the long run the indies are getting a bad deal. Final cut studio was about the same price when you add in compressor and motion and Automatic Duck to the price, and you also got a decent color corrector, an ok mixer and DVD Studio Pro to boot.

[Tom Olsen]

It is called Final Cut Pro, not Final Cut Indie. Apple could have made a consumer version for the app store for the indie people who dont need obscure features like being able to output split tracks or XML for use with other programs, or the other features they left out, but instead, they killed FCP, DVD Studio Pro, Color, FCP Server and Soundtrack Pro. To me that says Apple is out of the Pro market and just doesnt have the guts to actually admit it. I doubt they will add those features. I was a beta tester of Avid, coming from a film and tape background, and this is not the same situation; Avid made our jobs easier, it didnt make us pine for the splicing block.