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New features I'd like to see in Prelude

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 20 May 2012 16:30:44 GMT

Prelude is a very cool program and I can see this becoming a vital part of the workflow. I have noticed a few things that aren't perfect yet and would like to change. I will file feature requests, but I am wondering if anyone else agrees with these, has any workarounds, or has other items to add to the list.

1. Thumbnail view in the project window with hoverscrub. Pr took a giant leap forward with Hoverscrub so you don't have to load each clip into the source monitor to preview, and PL could use this as well. (The case could be made that PL needs this even more, since this will be a step in the workflow where you could be searching through clips even more than you would in the bins in Pr)

2. More efficient way to create bins and move clips in the project window. Right now, when you create a new bin, it shows up at the bottom of the list of clips. I have a project open with 500 clips in it - if there is a clip at the top that I want to throw into the new bin, I have to drag it down and wait for the list to scroll all the way to the bottom - slowly! Such a big time waster. It would be more useful if I could highlight a clip - or multiple clips - hit "new bin" and the clips would automaticaly be placed in the new bin. Or, having the option to have multiple tabs in the project window (like Pr) could also alleviate the issue.

3. The ability to send clips to a specific bin in Pr. Right now, when you send clips over to Pr, they show up in the main project window. If I have a bin structure set up there, it would be nice to target certain bins so the clips down't get lost in the higher level bin hierarchy. For example, if I'm working in a bin that is nested in a B-Roll bin, nested in an interview subject and want to go back to Pl to find more clips, I would like the ability to have the B-Roll bin open, go to Pl, send a clip, and have it show up there in the proper bin. Now, I have to navigate back to the top level and drag it to the proper place. Not a huge deal with one clip, but working with lots of clips can get disorganzied pretty quickly. One last note - some might say that all the Pl work should be done up front and organized there before going tp Pr, but I am finding Pr-Pl to work well together, using Pl as my sorting, metadata and organization tool concurrent with Pr. Essentially, Pl is acting like a turbocharged version of Pr's Brower, Poject panel and metadata panel in a separate app.

Any thoughts?

Access Cinema DNG RAW controls in Premiere

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 17:13:32 GMT

I'm somewhat new to the world of editing with RAW footage, and I know that CinemaDNG is only a day old in Premiere - but I'm wondering if anyone has insight in how to utilize the RAW format to its best capabilities.

I am able to import my RAW files shot with the BMCC (finally, yay) but unlike working with RED footage, there doesn't seem to be any way to make any changes to the RAW files. I know with RED, you right-click and access the "Source Settlings" dialogue to be able to work with sliders to tweak color, highlight recovery, etc - all the things you can do with the CinemaDNG files if they are opened in AE, LR or Photoshop with the Adobe Camera Raw controls.

In this way with Premiere, it's great to be able to edit with these files, but you don't get much of the benefit from working in RAW. I would much rather just stick with ProRes, then.

Does anyone have any insights into this?

Replicate "Negative Pop" from Colorista 2?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 04:57:00 GMT

I'm new to the Speedgrade bandwagon as a convert from Colorista 2. I am able to replicate everything that I relied on with Colorista in Speedgrade (and much more...) except I'm stuck on how to achieve what the "pop" slider did in the secondaries. While it did its magic similar to the "Clarity" slider in lightroom when increased, I used it with a negative value mainly to soften skin while still retaining the sharpness in the eyes. Is there anything I can use in a secondary mask to soften skin without losing the eyes?

Live Logger xmp not getting added to Metadata Panel

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:32:18 GMT

First shoot using Live Logger - everything is working up until I need to bring the data into Prelude. I log into my CC account, see the files I uploaded from the iPad and click on Download. Then...nothing shows up in the Unassociated Metadata Panel. I am running v 2.2.0 on OSX 10.9. I'm following along with the video tutorial on the Adobe site and I don't think I'm doing anything wrong.

Anyone have an idea?

I think I can really like this workflow with Live Logger (I have lots of suggestions for this app, but I know it is in its infancy) but I'm blocked on my first try to make it work back in Prelude.

7.1 Direct Link crash every time

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 00:06:09 GMT

Mac 4,1

OS 10.8.2

AJA LHi card installed

Created a new project in Premiere 7.1, added a 10 second ProRes clip to timeline - can't get it to direct link with Speedgrade without a crash. Also tried with a Cinema DNGclip.

Since I see some staff members active on the boards today - maybe they have an idea? Thanks!

Also - not sure if it is relevant - but I noticed that when I tell Premiere to send to Speedgrade, it askes if I want to save...I click OK - then Premiere stays open and I get the welcome screen again (where I can open recent projects.) Is that normal behavior?

EDIT: It isn't Direct Link - I can't even open SG directly on its own. As soon as I get to the welcome screen asking to open project, it crashes.

Here is the crash report:

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)

Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000

VM Regions Near 0:

-->

__TEXT 0000000100000000-0000000100a2b000 [ 10.2M] r-x/rwx SM=COW /Applications/Adobe SpeedGrade CC/Adobe SpeedGrade CC.app/Contents/MacOS/sgmacosx

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff976a6d46 __kill + 10

1 com.adobe.dvacore.framework 0x0000000102ad759a (anonymous namespace)::SignalHandler(int, __siginfo*, void*) + 330

2 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff96ca48ea _sigtramp + 26

3 ??? 000000000000000000 0 + 0

4 sgmacosx 0x00000001006708c8 CIrTransmitOutput::SendBufferToOutput(CIrPropertyList*) + 2596

5 sgmacosx 0x000000010040f409 CIrOpenGLBlitter::Epilogue() + 451

6 sgmacosx 0x000000010024bff0 CIrBlitter::Blit(bool) + 1112

7 sgmacosx 0x0000000100437fec CIrosApp::ScreenUpdate(CIrList<CIrFrameBuffer const>*, bool) + 270

8 sgmacosx 0x0000000100435c93 CIrosApp::CommandLoop() + 3239

9 sgmacosx 0x0000000100434c9b CIrosApp::iDoRun() + 3623

10 sgmacosx 0x000000010001e1a2 main + 98

11 sgmacosx 0x0000000100003334 start + 52

The Mac CS6 "Serious Error" thread

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 16:12:23 GMT

It looks like there are 4-6 disjointed threads about some big problems Mac users are finding with CS6 (and 6.0.1) To give us a better place to figure out solutions and for others to find with a search, maybe we can post a discussion here.

The Adobe engineers are participating and receiving crash logs, and hopefully a pattern can develop.

I'm on a MacPro 4,1, Lion 10.7.4, CS6.0.1, 32GB RAM, GTX 285 with the latest nVidia and CUDA drivers. I am seeing 2 primary issues:

Lots of Serious Error crashes. This happens without any noticeable pattern - sometimes with the title tool, trim monitor, or simply just scrubbing the timeline. It seems to happen more frequently with Dynamic Links in the timeline. Also, I believe it is happening more often (or maybe exclusively) with the MPE GPU option enabled. I think in Software Only mode, it may not be present, although further testing required.

Also, I am having an issue where Pr will display black only in the source and program monitors, unless I click around the timeline and will get flashes of images. This is remedied by changing over to Software Only for the MPE. It seems to be worse if Safari is running.

Wil - an Adobe engineer - has taken a look at my crash logs and seems to think something is funky with the graphcs drivers in both cases, but crash logs from other users seem to not agree.

CS6 on the mac - for me and a few others - is incredibly flaky. If you are having issues, can you post and explain what you are seeing and what your hardware/driver config is. Any patterns we can find will help the engineers troubleshoot and get this taken care of.

New iPad control surface working well

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 05:31:17 GMT

I am not affiliated with this company.

This app just launched and it is working incredibly well with Premiere so far. Not only does it have a control surface with soft buttons for editing and playback, but it will do gestures (mark in with a 1 finger swipe, insert with 3 finger swipe, etc..)

Just thought it would be of note to the Pr community for those who are looking for an interesting way to interact with Premiere beyond mouse and keyboard.

http://ctrlconsole.com

LR5 1:1 Previews workflow question

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 18:31:12 GMT

I don't work with 1000's of images at a time, so I build 1:1 previews on import to speed up the editing process. After editing, I do want to discard the 1:1 previews to save disk space, and I usually do it manually on the keepers and have the prefs to delete after 30 days as well. My question is: If I delete an image from the disk before I discard the 1:1 preview, does the preview data automatically get deleted from the catalog file as well? Or should I delete the 1:1 preview first before deleting the image from the disk? Does it even matter? I'm just not sure how the catalog preview data gets synced with a photo when it gets deleted. Thank you.

Prelude CC - Analyze content/Story integration grayed out

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:55:49 GMT

I am excited to try out the new Story integration, but the option to use the embedded script is greyed out for me. I don't have a lot of experience with Story, so maybe I set up the file or formatting wrong:

I created a new Film Script in Story. (I didn't see anywhere to create a transcript script)

I gave it a basic heading title.

Over in Prelude, I opened that document in the Story panel and dropped it on the clip.

When clicking on Analyze Content, the window that comes up doesn't give me the option to use the embedded script. (See attached)

Any insight? Hopefully just user error. Looking forward to using this.

As an aside...so excited about this new version - absolute favorite app in the suite and it got a ton better. Looking forward to trying all of the new features....Great job Wes and team...

Promising color correction tool from Technicolor

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:39:57 GMT

I'm not associated with Technicolor, but thought this would be interesting to the group:

There is a new plug-in for CS6 that looks very cool. It seems like it occupies the space that the Magic Bullet Looks goes after, but it has a very slick way of making a virtual dynamic link with the Premiere timeline.

https://www.technicolorcinestyle.com

I have done some limited testing with the demo (which does not allow for the non-destructive linking) and it is quite promising. You can apply some good presets, and then do your tweaking...having curves adjustments, real-time scopes and a keyer are pretty pro features. It doesn't go as far as Colorista - no secondaries for example - but the workflow looks super smooth.

Check out the video on the page for a quick demo. Could fill a good place in the color workflow.

How to?: Dynamic Link / Multiple Versions

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 31 May 2012 04:58:47 GMT

Anyone have a good way to accomplish this?

I have a sequence with some Dynamic Link clips with AE. I want to make an alt version in another sequence with different titles/graphics in the DL clips without losing my original version as well.

If I re-edit the DL clips in sequence 2, they will change in sequence 1 as well. Is the best/only way to make a new DL clip in sequence 2 and over in AE copy over the relevant graphics from the original comp to build the alt version?

Does that make sense?

CS6 Questions about making metadata more useful

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 11 May 2012 20:17:33 GMT

I've been tinkering with Prelude, and I am finding it really great to load clips with tons of metadata - even creating custom fields for specific project needs.

However, I am having trouble figuring out best practices to use the metadata once it makes its way to Pr. I see that the fields are being populated with data, and I know how to have the bins show certain elements of metadata...and I see the metadata tab in Pr contains all of the data from Prelude.

My question is how to best use all of this data when editing. It looks like the "find" window is pretty basic. Ideally, it would be great to do a filter that says" show me all of the clips labeled "B-Roll" "Diner" in the log comments and marked "Good." Feature request or hidden function?

I'm just wondering how are other people using metadata to create a good editing workflow? Why would it be worth my time to populate lots of metadata to clips in Prelude if it gives me a meager payoff in Pr?

Hoping for some good tips. Thank you to a great community.

Marking "Good" not transferring to Pr

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 18 May 2012 02:24:57 GMT

The metadata fields are translating over well from Pl to Pr except marking a clip "Good" in Pl is not making the checkbox mark in Pr.

Maybe I am doing this wrong - can someone take a moment to try this, or have any suggestions?

Thank you.

CS6 - Wow, H.264 performance greatly improved

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 07 May 2012 21:50:03 GMT

I edit footage mostly from a 5D, and working in CS5.5 on a Mac made me want to rethink my career. I finally had to start transcoding all of my footage to ProRes just to be able to do simple edits. (No more use venting about the H.264 experience anymore...)

But, I just did a couple simple tests with CS6, and all I can say is wow. It is like night and day - scrubbing perfectly, no lags when hitting play/pause, jumps right to a frame when moving the playhead instead of updating seconds later. I'm on the exact same hardware, so they must have done some serious tweaking for CS6 to make this much of an improvement. I feel like (at least on the Mac side) this finally fulfills a lot of the promises that CS5.5 claimed when it came to native DSLR editing.

CS6 Auto-Save: 1 step forward, 1 step back

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 08 May 2012 04:55:56 GMT

I have done a little testing with the auto-save, and there is some progress with CS6 - especially in the area where earlier versions would stop playback or scrubbing to fire off an auto-save.

It looks like the auto-save does not stop playback or scrubbing on the timeline anymore. It will stop you from other operations such as moving an audio slider or other non-critical mouse clicks. I tested with 1 minute intervals, and it appears that it won't auto-save during playback or scrubbing in the background, and will wait until the next interval after playback has stopped until it saves. (Instead of taking the very next possible moment after playback has stopped to makeup for the save) This seems like it could create the possibility that if you are playing back or scrubbing during multiple interval moments, you could have a long period where there are no auto-saves - especially if you set the interval to a high number. Like I said, I only tested with a 1 minute interval, so maybe this functions differently if you save every 10 or 20 minutes. Maybe then it will do an auto-save right after playback has stopped if it has been awhile.

The step back is that if you hide PPro, (I'm on a Mac, btw) instead of just bouncing the dock icon during an auto-save like previous versions, it will actually bring PPro to the front and block out/cancel anything else you are doing on your machine. How annoying! I can't figure out the reason to have it function like this. If it is simply hidden behind other windows, it does not do this, instead only brings to the front the small auto-save progress bar - It only happens if you hide the appplication. For example, if you are moving back and forth between PPro and AE, you could be working away on a comp in AE and suddenly PPro jumps to the foreground to let you know it did an auto-save. Since I have 2 monitors, I like to hide apps that I'm not working in to hide pallettes and other windows so I can have my desktop back. Seems like the solution for now is to not hide PPro ever and to do a proper save more often to avoid the issue of potential long periods of no auto-saves. (And submit a bug report?)

Anyways, long post for a potential trivial thing, but for those who care about this, it is a change. Anyone else experiencing this?

Copy in-out section from a clip, paste elsewhere

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:31:47 GMT

I would like to set an in and out point on a clip in a timeline, copy that section, and paste it elsewhere on the timeline. Can this be done without having to razor the clip and then copying? Anyone know if this is different in CS6?

Pardon if this has been discussed in the forums - can't find it.

Thank you.

Sneak preview of PPro CS6

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:10:12 GMT

Saw this posted on Vimeo - a funny promo piece starring the Conan editors with a few seconds of the next version previewed. Very cool..and looks like some exciting stuff coming!

https://vimeo.com/38593381

PPro - AE - PPro Dynamic Linking clip naming workflow

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 01:12:02 GMT

I see this topic discussed in bits and pieces, but haven't seen an answer to my question below. My underlying concern is renaming DLs may cause some funkiness and broken links, especially after closing and reopening a project.

Here is the first piece, going from PPro to AE:

• Make a copy of my clip from V1 and place it directly above on V2, right click and Replace with AE Composition. This gives me a clean copy of the clip on V1 to return to if needed.

• In AE, I immediately pre-compose the comp and the clip from PPro into a new composition. Now, I can rename this new composition into something that makes sense, rather than "Project Name Linked Comp XX" while keeping the original DL comp's name. I put the DL files into a folder to get them out of sight.

• When I do the AE work on this pre-comp, it will be reflected in the DL comp back to PPro, and everything is organized and named logically in the AE project window.

I always work in only one AE project per PPro project, and when reopening a PPro project my first step is to hit "Edit Original" on a DL clip to open up the AE project.

My question comes in when I go back to PPro from AE:

Once going back to the PPro timeline from AE, I will have the original clip on V1 with the original file name (something like MVI_XXXX.mov, unless I had already renamed it on the timeline) and the copied clip above it on V2 with the new DL name (such as Project Name Linked Comp XX/Project Name.aep)

Questions:

First, am I missing a way for this DL clip to automatically take on the new AE comp name I gave it? If there is no way, is there a danger of renaming this new DL clip to the same name I gave it over in AE on both the timeline and in the bin? It seems like I have to rename this clip at least 3 times to keep it organized. (Timeline, Bin and AE Project Window)

If you roundtrip 50-100 clips (or more) it seems like without this constant renaming, your PPro bin and timeline will get cluttered with a lot of "Project Name Linked Comp XX" clips. Any insight?

Thanks for the help, and please let me know if any of this needs more clarification.

VU levels not matching going from Audition to PPro

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:38:33 GMT

Couldn't find this in a search, excuse if this has been discussed.

I mixed a multi-track sequence arriving from PPro in Audition with a compressor on each vocal channel, and the VU meters were peaking nicely around -6db. When I export back to my PPro sequence, everything is peaking at -12db or so. Am I missing something? Do I just raise the levels once I get back to PPro, or would that give me less-than-optimal audio to boost it there?

Any input would be greatly appreciated for this workflow! (For a brand new Audition user...)

Keyframes sliding in the transition between PPro and Audition

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:42:07 GMT

I have multiple tracks in PPro that have keyframes on the levels. When I send it to Audition, all of the keyframes slide down the timeline by about 1 second or so.

PPro sequence:

Audition Sequence: (same area as above)

Does anyone have any ideas or experience with this? User error, or a possible bug? Thanks for the help!

Freezing with CUDA effects in an AJA timeline, CS5.5.1

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:52:00 GMT

I'm not positive it is an AJA problem, so I am posting here to see if anyone else has this issue:

Sporadically, when in an AJA timeline and using CUDA accelerated effects, when I park the playhead on a clip with a yellow render line, PPRo becomes unresponsive. I can move the playhead around, but cannot start playback. I can access menus, but not *do anything. When I move the playhead around the timeline, the program monitor doesn't update. I can quit the program, but it will hang - making me do a force quit. When I re-open, everything functions fine, but then I will hit this problem again - sometimes immediately, sometime after a few minutes of editing. I can't find any pattern.

I'm on a MacPro 4,1, 32GB RAM, GTX 285, internal RAID. I hadn't had this problem in the 5.5 release, and I can't seem to make it happen in an Adobe timeline...making me think this is an AJA issue. Anyone else using AJA sequences with CUDA acceleration on 5.5.1 (or 5.5.2) that either does or does not see this problem on a Mac? Thanks for the input.

H.264 delays in timeline navigation - Mac, CS5.5

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:14:04 GMT

I am editing H.264 files from a Canon 5D in CS5.5 on a MacPro 8 Core (4,1) with 32 GB RAM, NVidia GTX285, Media on a RAID, Cache files on a separate drive.

When I click on a clip in a built timeline, it takes 2-3 seconds for the program monitor to update. But, when I click on back to this original clip after clicking away from it, it will load instantly. This leads me to believe that it is some sort of caching issue. If I then click 5-6 more clips (Each with a slow load time), and back to the original, it goes back to the slow load time. Playback is smooth however, with the CPU only at about 100% (out of a possible 1600% with 8 cores hyper threading) Clicking on the clips make a brief jump up to about 600% or so as it decodes.

I have posted a clip which shows this in action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_1UDUlV75I

The H.264 issue is shown around 50 seconds (The beginning shows another issue which is discussed on another thread already)

I have tried cleaning the cache, and changing the cache location. I tried it with many clips shot on different occasions.

I talked with an Adobe employee at a roadshow in San Francisco, and he said that when clicking on a H.264 clip, the machine has to decode the clips before and after it for caching, but it didn't seem right to me - wondering if other MacPro users (or PC) are experiencing this - is it a bug or a feature?

Thank you for your help.

Tilde key doesn't maximize frames on 2nd display

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 03:18:26 GMT

Is this working for anyone else? Is there a preference I am missing, or is this not available? Thanks.

Do VU meters operate when playing clip in Source Monitor?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:40:29 GMT

When playing clips in source monitor, I don't get any visuals on the VU meters, but they do operate when the clip is placed in the timeline. Does the VU only function to monitor the timeline?

I'm not sure if this is a user setting, a bug, or just how it is. Looked on forums/web/manual and couldn't find any mention of it.

Thank you.