Bill Hunt wrote:

 

For the WAB (Work Area Bar), have you tried setting its In & Out Points with the [ and ] keys at the location of the CTI/Play Head? (Do not think that has been changed?)

 

I'm not sure what you mean. What I do is this. Let's suppose I added whatever filter to a clip that is not MPE accelerated, I have to press the ↑ key to go to the first frame of the clip, press [, then press ↓ to go to the last, press ] and then press Enter. Too many steps for what in other NLEs is done with a right click and selecting render, or a simple shortcut like Shift+G on Edius, or Command+R in the old FCP. Like I said in my first post, this wouldn't be a problem if it was needed just a few times a day, but when you are working on something where you need to do it dozens of times, it becomes annoying.

OK, I just remembered a third annoyance, this one perhaps the worst because it's more time consuming. If I had rendered two clips and I decide to apply a transition afterwards, both clips become unrendered, which in the case of two long clips, can make you waste several minutes to render both all over again. Quite absurd, and as far as I can recall, no other NLE does that.

Adobe should really take a look at the other professional NLEs and implement features ASAP, in some things Premiere is several years behind, like this, not being able to save transitions as presets, etc.

SimonHy wrote:

 

You can turn off the work area bar, it's an option in the sequence panel controls. You're then given different options for how to set your render, including "Render in to out". You can customise a keyboard shortcut for that. Then Shift+/ followed by your Render in to out shortcut, and you've reduced the keystrokes to render a clip.

Well, thank you sir, that was actually very helpful . No more dealing with the work area annoyance.

Now if you know a way to solve the other two I'll proclaim you King of Premiere