Logan BaKker at PremiumBeat by Shutterstock’s blog on Things to Check When Adobe Premiere pro Is Lagging. Honestly I wish I had written this, and have written about some of it previously, especially not working with compressed formats. And it cracks me up that people don’t render in to out when necessary, not only does it speed up playback but also exports significantly!
This is a must read!
Randi Altman at his postPerspective site has an article on Digital Anarchy’s Text-to-Video Conforming Tool for Adobe Premiere Pro. Digital Anarchy has expanded it’s Premiere Pro transcription tool to add Rough Cutter. And it can use a transcription from any source including the free Adobe Sensei captions, and it will literally make a paper cut. And for only $199.
Wow, that is a little scary. I have worked at many places where you literally cut a rough cut in a day, then did b-roll coverage on day 2 and clean up and music on day 3 and shipped behind the scenes pieces.
Of course as an editor I have always felt that just letting an editor edit will give better more organic material as it is based on not just what they are saying, but how they are saying it, but there are certainly places to start with a paper cut and if you can do a paper cut this easily the $199 is literally nothing.
Now I love that there is an Adobe User Voice forum and that you can request new features for Premiere Pro, and if you get enough hopefully Adobe will notice and consider adding your feature in a new version.
What blows my mind is how some of these posts have so few votes, while others have so many. And maybe if anyone is reading my posts they can give some votes to some of the things I care about.
Honestly I wish there was a way to merge some of these into one so that Adobe might take a look at the issue.
MERGE CLIPS
Let’s start with Merge Clips. Merge clips in Premiere has some serious issues that need to be dealt with, and so there are a lot of posts about Merge Clips. And I know you can use Multi-cam instead of merge clips to fix many issues, but it also adds some. Merge clips really needs to deal with the fact that you can’t go back to the original files, and it actually renames the audio files, and changes there timecode so that you can’t export AAF or OMF correctly to a mixer.
Exporting AAF with Merged Clip renames AudioFiles with only 18 Votes.
Batch Autosync and Merge clips with 3 votes.
STOP MERGE CLIPS FROM OBLITERATING METADATA with only 11 Votes.
PLEASE FIX: Merge clips functionality destroys audio metadata with only 9 votes.
Merge Clips Across Multiple Bin Windows with 2 and 5 votes.
Proxies with Merged Clips? with 8 Votes.
Merged clips, effects & OMF with 18 votes.
Attach / create prdoxies to / from merged clips.
Two issues with Merging Clips.
Merged clips/replace form source.
Break down merged clips back to components.
Jesus Christ, let us unmerge audio already for merge clips! with 6 votes.
Project manager doesn’t work with Merged Clips with 2 votes.
Fix Merged Clips AUdio Metada and feature to unmerge for audio-post production with 9 votes.
Automatically Sync Media to Merged Clips with 7 votes.
Please fix, update, or replace Merged clips with something that works with 2 votes.
EXPORT PER PROJECT
So currently Premiere Pro when you go to export a file it defaults to the last place you exported to across whatever projects you have opened, instead of being per project or at least relative to the project file.
Relative Export Paths PLEASE with 105 votes.
Add a ‘set deault export location” option with 33 votes.
Set Default Export Location Per Project with 3 votes.
Option Button: Export to Last Location OR .prproj Location with 3 votes.
Export pathway savrd to project file.
Maintan export filepaths based on last export per projet with 2 votes, but Under Review.
PROJECT TEMPLATE
Now there already the free app Post Haste from Digital Rebellion which I have talked about before, and it allows you to create both folder templates on your hard drive, but also include a project with a template set up within it. The thing is most people don’t know about it, and from getting projects from other editors, they could use some organization as well, and I think including project and hopefully hard drive folder templates within Premiere would make a huge difference and improvement on many workflows.
Add Project Bin Set-up template with 4 votes, though under review.
Add a “New Project Template” for PP like what exists for AE with 3 votes.
Ability to use a saved File as “New Porject Template” with 2 votes.
A Quick Start “Saved Template” For Project Bin Set Up with 3 votes.
New Project Template with bins and ability to make folders on hard drive as well with 1 vote.
AUDIO METADATA
Premiere does not deal with Audio Metadata at all, though does pass it on as long as you don’t merge clips, but there is data that could be displayed like which audio track is what.
Allow iXML metadata to display as part of audio clip name with 5 votes.
Show sound metadat info in clip with 2 votes.
OTHER
Make Premiere, Audition, and AE Icons different colors again with 321 votes.
Ability to see audio waveform and video in source window with a whopping 561 votes.
Deselect all tracks shortcut with 15 votes.
One shortcut key to turn all tracks off in the timeline with 5 votes.
Change multiple transition durations at once with 27 votes.
Copy Lumetri color from After Effects to Premiere Pro with 13 votes.
X-Rite ColorChecker Plug-in for Premiere Pro CC? with 636 votes is under review.
Well that is it for me today. Took a lot longer than I thought, but these are all things that really could use some help in Premiere Pro. Sorry that the links don’t always do the whole line, I have no idea why wordpress is doing that, but whatever.
Wow, so Adobe has agreed to aquire Frame.io.
So not a good thing for Final Cut Pro and AVID, but great for Premiere users. Having Frame.io fully integrated, not just as a plug-in could be amazing.
Honestly the biggest issues I have had with Frame.io notes is people tend to use it as a discussion or even chat, which can make the notes fairly confusing at times. There almost needs to approval of notes, so it is easier to understand as an editor, who will be getting notes from so many people that can be so contradictory.
Scott Simmons at the ProVideoCoalition is reporting that Adobe has End Of Lifed as of September 8th, 2021. The article also talks about that Bridge remains, and there is Lesspain Software’s Kyno, or maybe Hedge which was bought by Divergent Media and could be merged with EditReady.
Now I hate to see the creative suite having less apps, and I hated when they removed SpeedGrade (and am still hoping for a return as Lumetro Pro), but while I have opened Prelude I can honestly say I have never used it.
Honestly I think Prelude should have been upgraded and made free instead of killed. Adobe Premiere could use a full metadata system and they could learn a lesson from Final Cut Pro X and it’s metadata super powers. And if they made Prelude free and easy to use anyplace including on iPad and iPhone to be able to metadata footage quickly and easily and pass it to Premiere it would be beyond useful.
I am happy that Adobe seems to be really big on new features in Premiere right now, but axing apps from their suite doesn’t seem like a good start.
Adobe made the announcement in the beta forum in their communities.
Woohoo, something I never asked for but will certainly use. Just removing the disabled clips and empty tracks is very cool.
Now if only they could also un-merge clips (since merged clips break audio metadata so a mixer is basically unable to relink clips because their names and timecode change) and maybe flatten multi-cam as well, though you can already do that.
I do love that Adobe all the suddens seems to adding new features at a prodigious rate, but I just hope they will still go back and fix what is broken and has been for a long time.
Boy this would be easier if videos could hold markers like Quicktime movies. At least there is a way to do it.
I am an editor and not a sound guy, so this is certainly useful. I do spend a lot of time with the essential sound panel to get a passable mix, but for me a mix should go to a mixer, but that doesn’t always happen, so learning as much as you can is a great thing.
I do plan on doing some more sound specific lessons for Premiere and Audition in the future, but I have not delved into it to much as of yet.
Blackmagic design has done it again and have released a 4K streaming version of the web presenter.
The previous $495 version could accept a 4K signal, but it only could output at 1080, but this can output at a full 4k for a better signal for $695.
And like the previous model it has a USB C out so you can connect it to your computer as a web cam to use in Zoom. And with my UltraStudio 4K I could easily run it via the SDI input without bothering the HDMI out (though it also has an HDMI out).
I was talking to a DP with the director on a notes call and I really wished I had this setup so We could do live sessions. I know a lot of producers like to do a session in person and being able to stream live to a producer and talk really is something I need to add to my setup soon so I can continue to work at home. I am really looking forward to trying out Sofi Marshall’s setup and getting this going.
Oliver Peters at his digitalfilms blog has written 2 article son Audio Plug-ins for Editors. Parts 1 & 2 focus on categories, such as equalizers and compressors, part 3 is on the audio plug-ins from FabFilter Software Instruments and 4 is on Free Plug-ins.
You should go to his blog and check out parts 1, 2 , 3 and 4.
Sound is my worst part of editing. So often of late I am working for companies that expect me to mix, when an audio guy can add so much to a mix. Maybe this can help a little with audio if you want to dive into it.