[Xavier Bonet]

Hi, Saad, thanks for your reply! As I said in my question, at this time I’m using a shortcut, much like your own solution. I’m currently using CMD+D to lay down 2-frame crossfades but, as you must know, because you say you yourself have to go through many cuts manually, going 1-by-1 is a real hassle… an unnecessary hassle, if you ask me, which I why I am still of the opinion that this would be better solved by an automatic feature, as I’m sure there isn’ any AV editor out there that says: No, I like my audio to pop between cuts!
In fact, what I do, because I have tons of cuts every day, I just select all my audio and press CMD+D, and just lay crossfades throughout. Of course, that means I’m sacrificing being able to tweak cuts and crossfades between some clips in order to soften out the audio. At this point, I only do this when absolutely necessary. That is, when something sounds terribly wrong without it. If this isn’t the case, I just select the entire audio track at the end and slap on that default 2-frame crossfade.
What I’m looking for is something that actually keeps me from having to do this in the end, which will save me a lot of time.
Thanks again for taking the time to respond!

[Xavier Bonet]

Hi, Chris! Thanks for your response. The first solution is actually what I’m using now. Rather, a variation that I think is even a little quicker. As I said in my question, right now I’ve set default audio transition to crossover at 2 frames and have set the CMD+D shortcut to work for audio transition rather than video transition, as I generally prefer my cuts clean (by that I mean no transition) and due to this issue I’m having, I’m having to use audio transitions all the time.
I’m reading the info on snap-to-zero crossing, which is really interesting. Unfortunately, as my workflow goes (and it’s already a rather heavy one), unless I have to clean up some audio or apply specific effects, passing through Au is just another step I won’t be wanting to do.
As for editing keeping a close eye on PPro’s waveform, again, the default-transition solution seems at this time to be the only viable one in my case and definitely the easiest/quickest on in any case, if you ask me.
Still, I must carry on with the opinion that this is an absurd issue to have in modern NLE’s… clearly, no one wants final edits with audio pops between clips, it’s not a formal choice, so I’m sure an automatic function in place that takes care of these as they occur will be all-around applauded.
Thanks again for taking the time to respond!

[Xavier Bonet]

Hello, Blaise, thanks for your response. I wouldn’t call it an error per se: there are different situations for a video editor and some don’t allow for such control of the audio recording as you mention. In this case I’m editing a daily vlog and, so, you can imagine that there’s no opportunity to record room tone. Plus, recording and having to edit it in would be adding to my workflow rather than subtracting from it.
Anyway, I agree with you on all other points except that I think this doesn’t have to be an issue in NLE’s, there could be a function set in place that corrects for this, thus reducing some unnecessary work, in my opinion. The strange thing is, though, you mention this also happens in FCP and Avid and, although in Avid I’ve only edited more controlled audio/video (except on one documentary whose audio was all over the place), I haven’t seen this happen as often as it does in PPro. Again, I don’t know if there’s any function in place that is keeping this from happening that much in other software, but although I prefer editing the vlogs I mention in PPro because of the easy cross-over between AE, AI and AU, clearly, I’ve also had to edit a couple in FCP and have found that this doesn’t happen there…
At any rate, I remain content now with the fact that my shortcut solution is, for the time being, the easiest/quickest under the current circumstances of this project I’m working on.
Thanks again for taking the time to respond!

[Xavier Bonet]

Hello, and thanks for your response. Unfortunately, this doesn’t fix my issue. The small pops that occur on the cut between video clips with audio is still very much audible.
It’s incredible Premiere, being the popular video editing software it is, doesn’t have in place a better way of handling the audio on cuts than this… one would expect not to have such issues. Or at least a tool that one can activate. Perhaps it’s just an issue of activating something or other. But the truth is that if I don’t manually place a small transition between every single clip (which is truly a very annoying hassle) I will have at least 10% of cuts that have a pop which ranges from a slight annoyance to a really big and disturbing pop…
Does anyone else have this issue? Or is it only me?

[Xavier Bonet]

I’m finding the same issue as you throughout Adobe CC, including PPro, AE, Ai, etc. In fact, when I’m using an Adobe app, these issues “spill over” to most everything I do on my computer (MacBook Pro with OS X). I’m using a Wacom Art Pen & Touch and am finding either it or the software very buggy. I’m finding that it will often and for no reason at all act as if I had the CMD-key pressed, which is really annoying, to say the least, and as in your case, it really slows down my workflow. I’ve been speaking to Wacom about it for about a month and they continue sending me placebo-ish fixes that do nothing. I’m thinking I’ll ask them to replace the tablet to see if it’s a hardware issue and, if not, I’ll try going to another brand.

[Xavier Bonet]

Hi, Roei, thanks for your response.
To answer the first part: yes. The logo was worked in AI but after importing it I converted all to vector shapes, so that becomes native AE, if I’m not very much mistaken. Right now I’m away from my computer but will get a screen cap tomorrow morning. But basically the parent comp, the one I would export, is made up of a pre-comp with time remapping. That pre-comp is made up of the three pre-comps, each with the same logo masked to reveal in differents ways so as to create the effects you see. In each of these comps theres nothing but the vector shape logo and a alpha matte layer on top with the revealing mask. That’s about it. Just a couple of expressions: wiggle and random seed. And Ease and Wizz being used on soem sliders that control the wiggle to make it disappear toward the end of the animation (this is in the second level comp, the second one I mentioned.) I can’t really see anything that might cause this.
About the second part: I have thought of that, if all else fails, but I think like you: first, try to solve it, make it work as it should, before looking for a workaround.
Thanks a lot for your input!

[Xavier Bonet]

Hi, Chris, sorry for the late update on this… I’ve been having a workload tsunami and these kinds of issues with Adobe CC on my MacBook Pro mean a lot of workarounds (like the one you mention here), which mean time wasted.

Anyway, to answer your question, yes, I had been applying effects right onto the clips and not on adjustment layers. As of right now, it’s the only way I can avoid the flickering. But we must agree this is a workaround and not at all practical. The reason why adjustment layers exist is to facilitate the workflow. So if Adobe leaves in a clear glitch that impedes the use of AL’s… well, that’s just terrible work.

I have written in the Adobe forums about this but Adobe doesn’t seem to be doing much about it, or at least they’re not confirming if and when they’ll be fixing this issue.

Needless to say, I still have it, and it’s one of the most annoying and frustrating things ever.

Cheers!

[Xavier Bonet]

Ok, so I want to follow up this issue because, although I got back the use of Ppro and AE last night, I can no longer install any Adobe software. Each time I try to install something (I’ve even tried reinstalling PPro and AE) I get this screen

With which it’s clear something has gone terribly wrong when I tried installing ID through the CC and, although it’s absolutely unclear why this is happening, not even Adobe apparently knows because it’s error report has no information about what is going on, I think it’s because somehow the AAM was damaged during that failed attempt to install ID. The thing is, I can’t install AAM as a standalone piece of software; apparently it must be done or got to through CC… but apparently CC can’t be run correctly if AAM isn’t installed… which reminds me so much of the movie Brazil!

[Xavier Bonet]

Hello, again! Kept on trying to solve this, and kept on pulling out my hair, but finally I got a ray of light: I found the Adobe CC Cleaner Tool and hit “Cleanup” for the Adobe Application Manager. Now, I have no idea what it did but the AAM no longer appears in the list. Perhaps it’s been obliterated from my computer. Anyway, now PPro and AE work again! I dare not try reinstalling CC (oh, I had also downloaded the CC uninstaller from Adobe and have uninstalled it) because I don’t want to lose access to PPro again, now I have so much work to do (and it’s backed-up 4 hours due to this issue!). Anyway, I don’t know if it’s a fix. Anyone can corroborate or give another?

[Xavier Bonet]

You’re awesome, Joe! It’s been very kind of you to take the time to help me out with this!
And I’m glad I got your data from your MBPro because I’ve just ordered the same one and will be replacing this one. I’m sure the discrete graphics card has much to do with the taste performance; but from the beginning I also had a nagging feeling that I had gotten a lemon. Ever since I heard the right speaker buzzing with relatively normal volume music I got that feeling.
It is an intensive comp! I don’t always have such intensive comps but it’s good to know you computer won’t cut out on you if you need to have one or two! This one just doesn’t get the job done well enough!
My old PC apparently is not so close from the tomb as I thought it was, but it is a hassle while editing, because it lags and becomes very slow, very quickly, and also Adobe often crashes on it. But apparently it still has some life in it as a rendering machine.
I do follow Macrumors but very loosely, to be honest. I’ve worked with Macs while all the time but have never been a Mac owner up to now. But they’ve been rumouring the new Macs will be announced this date and that date and it isn’t happening. 🙁 I’ve been waiting since around Feb. or March, and was promised they would be announced at the WWDC a couple of weeks ago but it wasn’t. According to the guys at the Apple Store in Paris, new MBPros won’t be coming out until next year. They probably know as much as anybody else about it, but, really, the workload has been starting to come in and I couldn’t wait any longer. I am aware that probably once I got the MBPro the new ones would come out a month after! So I’m prepared for that and won’t feel so bad!
Finally, yes, I’m exporting in H.264. That was a big oversight on my part not to clarify it in my post. I’ve downloaded your exports and at first glance I can’t see the difference between the Vimeo setting export and the one I’m using. I’m going to test it out a little but you may have changed my life with that tip, Joe! If I can export at virtually the same quality but at half the time… wow! In the end, the vlogs at least (which are the ones I have to export daily and they’re a real pain when I have to wait 30-45 mins for them to export), will be compressed with YouTube’s compression algorithms that often mess up rather good quality footage. So I really don’t know why I’m cracking my skull with this one.
Anyway, thanks a million! You’ve really help me a lot!