[Troy Murison]

Alex,

Please write a feature request to Adobe! You’re right, there’s not a good way
to do this and keep the filters. You can copy and paste them, but if you have
transitions on either or both sides of that clip, they’re gone after your edit
is performed! A replace function should take care of both issues if it’s implemented
correctly!

-Troy Murison
Seattle, WA

[Troy Murison]

Try holding the Control key down after you start dragging
the clip. It should make a little arrows indication as
you position it at an edit boundry in your target track
and shift everything down after you drop it. At least
that’s how it works on my system.

-Troy Murison
Seattle, WA

[Troy Murison]

Thanks for the tip! We also tried that here but quickly determined that
with our particular workflow(s) it didn’t work. We are usually stuck trying
to keep all everything ‘live’, old versions and all, because our clients expect
(and should expect) to be able to go back to old versions. If/when we
wanted to revert back, then we had to fool around too much for comfort.
It’s a great idea for folks who don’t need to worry about my particular
issues though!

I guess what I’m saying too is that I personally still need a replace edit
function in PPro that functions similarly to AE’s Alt+Drag! Hello, Adobe?
Are you listening? Please?! I am hoping that they are listening to
feature requests- it appears that they do. So if it’s important
to you (anyone), submit a feature request, please!

-Troy Murison
Seattle, WA

[Troy Murison]

No, there’s no function currently. I have (and you should, please!) submitted a feature
request to Adobe! This seems like a very elementary function to leave out for this
long and it’s among the highest of my personal priorities as far as feature requests
for future versions of PPro.

My workaround is to copy the clip I’m replacing, mark that clip, overwrite, then paste
attributes. But, as you know, this does nothing to help you if you have transitions
in place on either end of the targeted clip. If it’s always your default transition,
then you’re golden, but how often is that the case? For me, it’s rarely. So
I sometimes also will look at and note the lengths of transitions before I overwrite.
Or I sometimes overwrite to a layer above, then when I’m through with that
I go back and re-do the transitions in that track so I have a ‘guide’ layer below.
Then just delete the lower track or clips when done. There may be a better workarounds
I haven’t thought of yet. If I think I’m going to have a lot of this kind of thing
when I start a project then I just don’t use PPro, but that’s a choice I have that
some don’t.

-Troy Murison
Seattle, WA

[Troy Murison]

4096 pixels by 4096 pixels is the image size limit in PPro.

Troy Murison
-Seattle, WA

[Troy Murison]

Cool, thanks Dave. I didn’t try that!

[Troy Murison]

Too bad, would be good to see you. I’ll be sure to blame having to have
‘just one more’ on you though! 😉

-Troy Murison
Seattle, WA

[Troy Murison]

Hey Wes,

Long time, no talk…

In 2.0 from a open project, go to File\Open Recent Projects and you’ll get a
fly-out list of recent projects which cooresponds to the list you get when
you launch the app. But I don’t know how to get to that particular screen
w/o relaunching. Why do you want to?

-Troy Murison
Seattle, WA

[Troy Murison]

This is the way PPro apparently works (2.0 is no different).
It annoys me too. Put in a feature request with Adobe.
Maybe if this bothers enough people, they’ll change it.

-Troy Murison
Seattle, WA

[Troy Murison]

Matt,

I concur with Wes and Ken. I haven’t ever gotten a (fully)
successful Avid AAF (from Express Pro or Adrenaline) into
PPro 1.5 or 2.0 by themselves. Wes’s importer works
flawlessly on the same AAFs that didn’t otherwise work.
(Thanks, Wes!)

But we have found so many other issues with PPro (mainly
1.5- we have yet to give 2.0 a fair and full evaluation) that
we scrapped the idea of using it in a online/finishing
capacity for now.

-Troy Murison
Seattle, WA