Comments on: Shane’s Adobe Premiere Pro questions are good ones

By: editblogadmin

editblogadmin — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:55:05 +0000

I’ve never looked for that feature in Premiere Pro. But I would think it would be under motion effects? Reverse?

By: John Moio

John Moio — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:47:55 +0000

I have a clip that travels from right to left and I would like to flip it to go left to right, the old versions of Premier was capable of doing that, but for the life of me, I cannot find how to accomplish this in PPro CS4, can anybody give me advise on how to do this?

By: editblog-admin

editblog-admin — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:36:24 +0000

Thanks for those comments David. I will check out the timecode in the Info panel.

By: David B.

David B. — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:50:51 +0000

Timecode overlay: In CS3, Premiere has a Timecode filter which you can drop onto a clip, or a nested sequence clip if you want to create a timecode window burn for an entire sequence. This timecode overlay appears in the Program monitor and the video output. CS4 has a much better view of source timecodes in the Info panel. Here, you can see all the source timecodes for every clip that is currently under the playback head. These update in real time as you drag the playback head or move a clip under the playback head. The Info panel timecodes are stacked just as the clips are arranged in the timeline, so it’s a 1:1 correlation.

By: David B.

David B. — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:37:33 +0000

Casey, you could insert black video (or any other clip) at the beginning and all the rest of the clips in the sequence will move further down the timeline. Or you could use the Track Select tool, and hold down the Shift key to move all clips to the right and open up a space at the beginning.

By: Casey

Casey — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:53:21 +0000

I have the CS3 and have a quick question. How do you move the entire video back? I want to add a title sequence to the beginning of the video, but I can’t seem to figure out how to shift all audios and videos back a bit. I know how to delete space, but is there a way to add more?

Thanks!

By: Nathan Nugent

Nathan Nugent — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:14:12 +0000

Premiere has been pushing the fact that it can share projects with FCP and Avid with its recent update. My experience this week was that a Premiere AAF wouldn’t open on MC 2.8 or 3.0, an Edl of the same seq constantly crashed EDL manager, and it only seems to export audio OMF’S not video. I ended up having to rebuild a seq from scratch, looking at the timeline on the premiere Cpu, haven’t done that in a long time. My recommendation is to approach Premiere to Avid movement with extreme caution. Premiere certainly looks nice though.

By: Scott Simmons

Scott Simmons — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:00:08 +0000

Great comments Mike. I think that since so many FCP users have come to editing for the first time they are unaware of FCP’s history and origins. Anything that is different from what FCP does seems to them to be the wrong way of doing things. I’m like you that I wish FCP people would get up in arms over the many problems that Apple has never addressed, maybe that would get them moving forward.

By: Mike Jones

Mike Jones — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 07:46:34 +0000

Its seems in the discussion there seems a level or surprise or even excitement at discovering that premiere has XXXX feature just like FCP. Are we forgetting that FCP was Copied from Premiere….? That Premiere was the first major software-only NLE; that it’s developer Randy Ubilos left Adobe to go to Macromedia to make KeyGrip to do for them what he had done for Adobe, only Macromedia sold the product to Apple who re-badged it Final Cut Pro.

If there’s a number of features in premiere that feel familiar to FCP users it because Prmeiere is the Father of FCP and that FCP owes virtually everything it has to Premiere, including most of it’s interface. the difference is that, after much neglect and nearly driving Premiere into the ground Adobe finally got back behind the wheel of Premiere as a pro NLE and steered it back to the light. I dont believe there can be any doubt that right now on paper, Premiere Pro CS4 is the most forward thinking NLE on the market, a product that shows more foresight and innovation than either FCP or Avid have managed to conjure up int he past 3 years.

Inter-app operations, integrated tool-sets, plugin architectures and especially metadata management all step way beyond any NLE on the market right now. Premiere’s certainly not perfect but it’s definitely showing the way forward whilst us poor FCP users languish in Apple’s, sadly all to recurrent, neglect and wait for Avid’s new thinking to prove to be something other than marketing speak to resurrect a free-falling market position.

With the new ability to open FCP projects in Premiere I think you’ll find many FCP users step in the Premiere pro world as a gateway to After Effects and end up staying for the significantly more powerful and flexible editing environment. And this will be the Best Thing Ever for FCP users because the thing that kills us everytime is the blithe apathy that FCP users have. FCP users seem to refuse to criticise FCP when it’ an application in dire need of heavy criticism. FCP’s major failings (Audio, Media Management, Format Flexibility, Real-Time performance, no true 4k suppourt just to name a few) will never be addressed unless FCP users starting getting angry and demanding better. Im hopeful that as premiere pro is taken seriously (as it should) that Apple may get the kick up the arse they sorely deserve and fix the deep issues in FCP that have been there so very long.

Cheers

Mike

By: Paul Del Vecchio

Paul Del Vecchio — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:12:44 +0000

The fact that Premiere doesn’t copy an imported file into the project media is, to me, not really an issue. As an editor, I’ve made it part of my job to copy any sound fx or new video media into the project folder, but I put it into a different folder from the captured media. In other words, if I render an effect out of After Effects, I’ll create a NEW folder in the project folder with the name “Graphics” or “VFX Shots.” In a way, I kinda dislike the way Avid picks random names for the MXF files and bunches them all together. That kinda destroys the “loose” file organization created the the NLE (Premiere or FCP) and you don’t really know the contents of each MXF file.

The MXF files are basically big globs of footage referenced by the clips in the Avid project.

I will say that Avid is definitely more stable though, and that benefit obviously outweighs the above “issue.”

I’ve done some long form work in Premiere and it seems to handle it well, but Avid is DEFINITELY more stable and handles it much better.