- For a quick start, read up on UNC paths, Sequence settings & Preferences.
- Tips, tricks and workflows are on the Editors page.
- Troubleshooting tips here.
FCP7 was based on Quicktime 32 bit, Premiere is based on the Mercury playback engine 64bit. In the last decade operating systems went to 64bit, ram went from 8 to 128 GB and GPU’s are now accelerating tasks like rendering and encoding. If you don’t watch out when you switch to Premiere, you’ll become a beta tester for big corporations like Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, AVID, HP, Dell, and all the camera manufacturers. In postproduction, there are so many moving parts, so many “improvements” around the corner almost every month, that it’s hard for these poor corporations and their hardware and software engineers to keep up.
So there you are, sitting in a room trying to edit with Quicktime movies that were working fine in the last decade, but instead of working on your edit, you’re Googling glitches, system crashes and audio drop outs.
Adobe sells the creative cloud suite as if it is one interconnecting piece of software. But if you have Pr and Ae open at the same time you experience lots of conflicts, stalls and crashes because the apps fight over the same GPU, CPU, RAM, output card, media, metadata, media cache data base, preview files etc. Adobe keeps adding on “features”, keeps stacking code on code which creates tons of bugs. So how do you actually get work done?
Simple; don’t use direct linking the way it’s designed. Use it to move metadata between apps, then close the other app, render or export out a file and import that back into Pr. If you have to make a change, simply overwrite with same name on your media drive and it will update on the Pr timeline.
This is how editors worked in the past decade. The Adobe programmers agree:
-With Speedgrade & Premiere it is either-or (using direct link), you share the same project, media and metadata and can only have the Pr project open in one app at the same time.
-When you send a sequence to Audition CC2015, it creates a separate set of WAV files in a folder called “Adobe Audition Interchange”. The picture now links using “dynamic link”.
-Photoshop CC2015 programmers where given this language by marketers. Why doesn’t the message say: “The computer is too busy, please close some apps”?
-In Speedgrade and Ae the available VRAM is sometimes reported lower than what you have installed because the software correctly shares the GPU cores with the other open apps.
Today as editors we wear more hats than ever: editing, sound mixing, graphic design, rotoscoping, stabilizing, color correcting, closed captioning, subtitling, encoding for the web, and collaborating with clients and team members inside and outside the edit room in real time.
I finally started to understand that it’s possible to weed through all the marketing bullshit and get back to work. Testing camera’s, camera settings, I/O hardware and software settings is the key to finding a stable workflow.
To get up to speed in Premiere read this book’s 600 pages.
This website functions as a collection of links to pages and PDFs that helped me learn Premiere.
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