0 Replies Latest reply: Jun 18, 2014 10:29 PM by PierreLouisBeranek RSS

    This new 'feature' is so half-baked, it's raw!

    PierreLouisBeranek Community Member

      Don't just be a by-stander.  If you truly care about seeing Premiere improve, participate!  Send your own Feature Request or copy/paste this one at http://www.adobe.com/go/wish!

       

      I had high hopes when I heard about being able to simultaneously change the duration of multiple transitions in CC2014.  Unfortunately, as you'll see, this new feature's current iteration is a total letdown.

       

      *******Enhancement / FMR*********

      Brief title for your desired feature: "Ability to select multiple transitions at once and change durations simultaneously" that actually works as expected!

       

      How would you like the feature to work?

      Just as one would expect the feature to work:

      1. Ability to select multiple transitions by drag-selecting a range of clips that contains them.  Premiere should be smart enough to understand that if a user right-clicks on one of the selected transitions, then that user wants an action performed on the selected transitions vs the selected clips!  This would avoid users having to select multiple transitions by Ctrl-clicking on them one... by one... by one... by one... by one........

      2. Ability to change duration of selected transitions by click dragging any selected transition's in/out point.  This is the way it works for trimming multiple clips at once, so why not for transitions?  It's a whole lot more intuitive than having to a) right-click a transition, b) select "Set Transition Duration", c) guess the correct number of frames that will result in the desired duration!  Furthermore, the ability to trim multiple transitions with a mouse would allow transitions of different durations to be trimmed relative to each other (e.g. a 30f and a 60f transition could be simultaneously trimmed to 35f and 65f).  With the limitations of the current feature, this is not possible since all transitions have to be set to the same duration!

       

      Why is this feature important to you?

      The new feature of changing the duration of multiple transitions simultaneously is so 'half-baked', it's raw!  If you introduce a new feature, make it practical and truly useful!  The way this new feature stands, it's hardly of any use.  Selecting 20 transitions for example, still requires 20 mouse clicks.  Hardly productive!  And users have to guess durations rather than being able to visually/intuitively set them through mouse cursor trimming.