Tony West
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Yes, that’s just one simple example. Rippling the timeline shut by default is another, keeping things in sync by default is another. It took me really getting into a Pr project for it to click in my head the main difference with X and other NLEs and it’s that more times than not it is defaulting to what most editors would do in a certain situation anyway. So you are constantly using fewer keystrokes over the entire edit thus making the overall process faster.
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I knew what you were trying to say about 3-point editing, it just doesn’t negate my point, which is that this simply task is fewer keystrokes in X. I shouldn’t have to select that clip at all. “You can achieve the same in Premiere, but it does require two keystrokes.” Then it’s not the same
it’s more keystrokes which is my entire point. Is it a big deal………No. but I prefer the way X does it. -
With the playhead just past an edit, when selecting “O”, I want the “in point” to default to the closest edit point like this example in X. Not the beginning of the timeline.
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Yeah, I guess I would like that, but what I would really like to see with Motion is for them to just add more elements to it. More backgrounds, more behaviors. Same with X. I think those are the same backgrounds they had when they first introduced the program. I know how Pr works, I just want it to default to the next edit like X. That’s how I cut. I usually just want some little sound taken out at the head of an edit. The other thing that I was surprised about was the suite. I thought you got everything but you don’t, unless you pay extra. I didn’t realize that. I was working from my client’s subscription. Seems like at least AF should come with Pr.
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I listened to this whole thing and enjoyed the conversation. I thought everyone had interesting points. I recently did my first client job in Pr and can certainly see why so many people like it. You can pretty much do anything you need to with that program. I used it on my nMP and it had no problems at all. Zero crashes. After using it and learning my way around one thing that jumped out at me in comparison to X, is that one of the things that I believe makes X “faster” for me to assemble is that X more times than not defaults to what I’m trying to do in the first place. A simple example would be if I go past an edit and set an out point, Pr will sets the in point at the beginning of the timeline (unless you select the clip), where as X will set it at the first edit point. Which 99.9% of the time is where I want it. How often am I going to want to delete the whole front end of my project. Enough of those simple defaults, while not that big of a deal, can add up over a long edit. I enjoyed my time with Pr and the client was happy with my work, but that came in the way I told the story more than anything. I have settled back into X until the next Pr job. Btw Tony was right about Fusion. I opened and closed it. Give me Motion : )
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Great Kristin.
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It appears that you may have this far right display option selected.
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I have not been asked for Dolby at this point Tim but I’m very interested in ProRAW myself. So much of my work is fast turn around to air and at the top of the list is really volume. They want a bunch of shots to choose from. I agree with your point on news coverage with the phone though. I’m in St Louis and not too far from Ferguson where people in the neighborhood were recording the Mike Brown scene before News Pros could arrive and get tripods set up. It marked the first real divide in how people got their news from an event like this. Citizens shot the scene and went right to social media where many people watched and then others watched traditional news which was very different and lacking. Many were confused about how people could come away with so vastly different views, but as a tech person, a news and production person, an African American that grew up here, I knew what was different. Those phones. That’s where I really see this going and taking off. You can’t get away with lying about an event anymore. There are 15 or more people recording with high quality cameras and 15 different angles. Citizen Journalism.
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I have this problem also. The work around until they fix it, is to select the waveform at the top(after you have selected an item) and hit pay. After that it seems to work normal until you select music and then go back to Sound Effects again. then I have to repeat. Irritating.
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I completely agree about the audio. I usually tell people who want to get started with gear for a living that you need to have these essential items. 1. Boom mic 2. wireless lav 3. Tripod that you can make “on air moves” with. (lost art) 4. lighting 5. client monitor. Once a person has bought those items they are not likely to finish off with a phone. I think it was the iPhone 4 that a producer held up and proclaimed that “this is going to change everything”. Hmmmm not really. So many people folks on a tight budget can’t afford that phone. They still have an outdated 6 or something like that. You would be better off buying a used pro camera.
