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I’m not sure how well PPro handles different frame rates – this is a job I would do in Avid, which handles the different frame rates (applies a motion effect, which you can then edit for different motion interpretation). It can also show different frame rates as different colours in the timeline.
Interested to see what the options are in PPro…
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+1
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I think you have to restart the app
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They could do with an option that restricted timeline tracks to only accepting matching clip types but personally I prefer the Adobe approach.
My Avid sequence template (stereo deliverable) is 2xmono & 2xstereo tracks for dialogue AND effects (and 2xstereo for music) = 10 tracks, and goes up from that.
In PPro I start (and usually stay within) 2xstandard for each = 6 tracks. Much more manageable PLUS I get sub-mix tracks!
The timeline indication (e.g. speaker icon for mono tracks) is pretty clear and there IS track labelling per clip in the timeline so I don’t see it’s too hard to unlock. Problem is more at the editor level, too many editors have no clue what they are doing with audio in either program. I see it in avid with weird panning and audio tracks with no discipline and in Premiere with the track mixer set to bizarre levels. There’s just more you can screw up in Premiere, but please don’t encourage the dumbing down of the tools.
With the caveat that I’ve not had to export an AAF from Premiere yet – the AAF implementation of exporting mixed source clips makes a lot of sense. Given 1 standard timeline track with mixed stereo & mono sources it will create 3 tracks in the AAF sequence 2 for stereo clips, left & right, and 1 for mono clips.
What would be useful would be a couple of things Avid offers. Firstly a ‘.exported’ sequence showing the sequence as contained in the AAF. Second would be a ‘split to mono’ option to help those wanting to work with mono tracks.
But most of all Adobe need to copy ‘head/tail fade’ and ‘add transition in to out’ from avid.
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AIUI the previews are only used if the export video settings match the preview settings.
Which makes some sense, and acts as a check that export/preview settings are correct, as the previews may be lower quality.
Agree that it would be good to have a ‘use previews regardless ‘ option IN ADDITION. Currently I export SAS – which uses previews – then use media encoder to squash down to H264.
(SAS = ‘Same As Source’ = ‘Match Sequence Settings’
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I would think you’d need a TBC too – or at least a VHS with a built in TBC, otherwise you’d get rolling/ unlocked pictures. I do need to capture some family VHS so if this is possible with domestic VCRs I’d love to hear…
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My workaround is to make a copy of a title within the sequence by alt-dragging title1 onto a new layer and then immediately dragging the resultant ‘title2’ back to replace title1.
This is a new instance of the original title. Although sometimes I screw up!
Off to file a FR for a right-click / keyboard shortcut option to ‘create new instance of selected titles…
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Assuming:
a. that you have video that does not record a TC track (but does record a date/time stamp for file)
b. that your audio is continuously recorded
c. that the video stop/startsBest thing is to get the video TC track to match the date/time stamp
https://www.videotoolshed.com/product/qtchange/ — does this, I think
Then to string out videos so that there is black where there was no recording (Avid does this with ‘autosequence’ – other NLEs you have to do it manually, although you may be able to do it by stringing all clips in one timeline, exporting an EDL or XML and copying the source timecode to the record timecode)
Then add the audio (continuous recording) to this. Timecode or date/time stamps may help get you close.
Now slide all the video (or the audio) to get sync… should be reasonably consistent across a few hours, likely to drift a bit as nothing is locked.
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Bouke @ video toolshed makes useful tools that may help out…
https://www.videotoolshed.com/product/audio-map/