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Do you know how it’s different from FCP7, for example? I remember I could open huge projects with Final Cut and editing wouldn’t be sluggish at all.

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This is weird. I got Premiere CC2014 and this feature does not show up in Premiere at all.

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I was thinking more on the lines of how to do a proper mix on Final Cut or Premiere.

My work is mostly interviews, talking heads, and music as a background. Occasionally there are some sound effects. My most common challenge is removing background chatter from interviews that had audio captured with boom mikes. Usually it’s good-leveled audio, but there’s chatter and here and there a police siren, a phone rings, etc.

I don’t know what are the guidelines for levelling audio, at what -dB level the voice should be and the music should be, etc. I probably won’t find the time to buy an interface and learn Pro Tools, but I would love a tutorial on how to use Audio Compression, Peak Limiters, on the difference between Volume and Gain and when to use each one, on Audio Normalize, dB meters, how to use them, etc etc etc!

Do you think that book could help?

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I use AIC mostly due to small file sizes. Never tried other flavors of ProRes besides HQ!

Animation is a pain to transfer between machines. Things will get easier now that I fitted them both with gigabit lan cards

Thanks buddy I’ll look into DNxHD!

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I’m used to ProRes for most things, AIC for proxies and h264 for delivery.

I’ve installed QT and ProRes. ProRes on Windows is apparently really slow.

What is common practice for editors who use Windows? Most mac professionals I know are used to ProRes. What would be the Microsoft equivalent?