Trevor Ward
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Auto Save is sh#$. Auto save SHOULD function to automatically save versions of the file regardless of manually saving. I, like Ryan, save OFTEN. I’m having the same problem and now I’ve lost a full day of work. Painstaking work that won’t be any faster the 2nd time I do it. I HATE PP! It is NOT a professional grade software package.
Ryan, did you ever figure out a solution?
-Trevor Ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyefilmco.com
Orlando, FL -
Auto save versions are in the auto-save folder for your project.
I’m having the same problems, but I’m not saving my project files to dropbox. They are on the system drive. This is getting to be pretty frustrating. For a month now been using PP and am very frustrated with the experience. I want reliable software. Why is that so freakin hard to accomplish?!
-Trevor Ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyefilmco.com
Orlando, FL -
Ok folks. I upgraded my RAM to 16GB (~$85). I do notice a bit of improvement in scrubbing the AVCHD footage from the Panasonic AF100. I can hit “L” twice which I think is 2x scrubbing and the system keeps up. At three hits of “L”, it can’t keep up. It IS better than previous, though still not what I was getting with ProRes files in FCP.
SO, it’s just one of those things. There ARE downsides to “edit anything.” Downside being spending more money on a FAST machine. Or, not having responsive JKL. It’s all about pros and cons. FCP does things better and PP does things better. There will always be trade offs. I suppose I could transcode everything. But after 4 years of that, I’d ready to “edit anything” because that seems intuitive to me with an All-Digital workflow.
Remember when P2 came out? The hype was “no more digitizing tapes.” However, it took just as much time to load the cards, archive them, and transcode the footage. Seemed to me to be marketing thing. Yes, I’m saving time/money by NOT having to digitize the tapes. But, I’m spending nearly the same amount of time data wrangling and transcoding.
Trade offs.
-Trevor Ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyefilmco.com
Orlando, FL -
yes, that’s correct. 100% zebra highlights will make the face look like crap. I see it all the time, even on TV. And this camera especially doesn’t do well with the highlights. They turn a weird yellow muck thing.
-Trevor Ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyefilmco.com
Orlando, FL -
You won’t have a problem if you are exposing correctly. This can be said of any camera.
One thing I DID notice is that if you set the zebras to 100% and wait for even the tiniest of patterns showing up on the face, that part of the face will be overexposed. Which is what we would expect. However, I was surprised to see HOW the face became over exposed. I’m not technical, so I can’t tell you what was happening, other than I didn’t like it. It’s as if the last bit of exposure has a strange look to it. Is this the highlight rolloff?
Anyway, you might want to set your zebras to 95%, 90% or even 85% and expose highlights, especially on the face, at that mark. It will give you a nicer exposure.
Also, the AF100 might not be great for weddings. The crop factor is so large that you’ll need a really wide lens for the reception and your wide shots. Even a 24 mm lens won’t cover you. Then theres the adjusting of the exposure. Canon lenses, forget it. Nikon lenses with aperature on the lens, maybe. I would suggest the Lumix lenses since the a) go wide and b) work directly with the iris control of the camera.
-Trevor Ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyefilmco.com
Orlando, FL -
Ok. I will try maxing out the ram to see if that makes a difference. Also, I can try putting the scratch disk and video clips on the USB 3.0 hard drive to see if that makes a difference. Sounds like it has more to do with RAM and computing power than throughput of the hard drive since h.264 files are relatively small and I’m only talking about one stream.
No, bin scrubbing won’t really do what I need. I’m needing to play, fastforward, pause, rewind, play clips as I make selections.
-Trevor Ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyefilmco.com
Orlando, FL -
MBP, 2.5GHz i5. 4GB RAM. Scratch disk and date files on FW800 RAID.
So, it sounds then, that really, h.264 scrubbing isn’t going to be great for me. So either I conform all my footage to a more edit friendly codec or just suffer with poor scrubbing.
(Sorry for my attitude. But I went to CS6 from FCP reluctantly. I am not thoroughly satisfied with CS6 so far. Some things I like. I’ve always liked AE. I like the integration of AE and PP. But PP is still lagging in fine performance and user experience. One of the reasons I made the move was in hopes that PP finally was ready for prime time. I was hoping the promised workflow was better. Granted, I like that I “can” edit any footage. But in reality, it’s a bit cumbersome. Is it worse to transcode all my footage first? I didn’t like that either. Never seemed to make sense. So that attitude comes from the feeling that I got sold a bundle of goods that isn’t what it was hyped to be.)
-Trevor Ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyefilmco.com
Orlando, FL -
I DO understand h.264 encoding. Still doesn’t help me. And I DO use jkl. I’m not sure that that makes a difference in scrubbing performance over some other method of playback. Bin scrubbing isn’t helping me go back and forth during a long interview or long take. It’s a nice feature, but isn’t helpful for actual editing. Changing the resolution from 1/2 to 1/4 seemed to make a minor change, but still very jumpy scrubbing.
I’m looking for a solution or someone to tell me it’s not going to happen due to it being h.264 footage. if the solution is a big fast machine with tons of ram, then that’s my solution. If the solution is to transcode then that’s my solution.
but so far, the notion of “edit anything” is still just marketing buzz to help sell software but still a couple of years away due to everyone not fortunate enough to afford the fastest, most expensive gear.
-Trevor Ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyefilmco.com
Orlando, FL -
Ahh, ok. thanks. I don’t know that I ever would have found that on my own. So, why the extra “step”? Seems to me that the default should be if I move a clip from V1 to V2 that the audio would also move from A1 to A2.
Am I perhaps missing something good?
-Trevor Ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyefilmco.com
Orlando, FL -
This isn’t a help in terms of keyboard shortcuts, but perhaps it’s a matter of changing working habits. Select the blade tool (or use keyboard shortcut to select blade tool), then click each clip you want to blade. If you have 9 clips to blade, that’s only 9 mouse clicks.
I feel your pain in switching from FCP. I’m just getting into it and finding so many little things that I miss. Almost want to start this project over in FCP.
-Trevor Ward
Red Eye Film Co.
http://www.redeyefilmco.com
Orlando, FL