Premier RANT

[Tehben Dean]

I have been working with a project I shot and someone else edited in Premier with mostly the original footage and some proxies of pickups which I exported out of RCX and dropboxed to him.
The film has now come back to me for color grading in Davinci.

Basically I had to go through and select each INDIVIDUAL file for relinking (original RAW files included) and half of the proxies didn't work because of some BS about how many audio tracks were associated with the clips. (I could care less about the damned audio!)

In FCP7 you could relink footage all day without any problems and all you had to do was point it in the general direction and it would AUTOMATICALLY find all the media AND let you know what it had found and how many files it needed to begin with.

PLEASE Adobe just make this work....


Second excruciating bit about Premier.
Why can't you simply right-click on a sequence and export an EDL, XML etc. when you choose to export from the file menu it exports an XML for the ENTIRE project! WTH Comeon! The only solution I have found to make the xml suitable for Davinci is to open it in FCP7 first and then export the timeline I wanted in the first place for use in Davinci.

Maybe I am doing something wrong but I kindof doubt it...

I mean I LOVE the mercury playback engine and RAW editing, oh yeah and the Title editor... but this other stuff is driving me mad and I feel like ive wasted 3 perfectly good days because of it :(


BLAST IT!

[Cory Petkovsek]

1. Since you created the proxies from RCX, then you should have relinked them to the R3Ds within RCX. This process is painless and fast. I have 700+ clips in our feature. We are editing in fcp7 on dnxhd proxies. In a couple minutes I can get this timeline into premiere connected to R3Ds with a quick pass through RCX, thanks to the work of David Ibbitson and others. I assure you it works quite well. Relinking manually within premiere would suck!

2. The Premiere EDL export is only for the current sequence. I use it regularly for quick handling of certain clips from premiere to rcx for a vfx export of EXRs. I believe Resolve supports EDLs.

Cory

[Joseph Coleman]

There is an Export Final Cut XML in File > export. That is what I use to export a XML to Davinci.

[Wes Howell]

Hey Tehben,

I think I can safely say that Adobe hears you loud and clear on the re-linking requests. Hang in there.

Re: The XML request (perfectly understandable and valid request) May I suggest a workaround?

Take your existing project and save a new version. Something along the lines of Currentproject_XMLExport.prproj.
Delete all of your timelines except the one you want to export and remove all other unused footage. (remove unused command)
It's an extra step, but it will only take 30 seconds. Hope that helps a bit.

As always, please feel free to fill out feature requests! Adobe listens.

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform...?name=wishform


best,
Wes Howell
Adobe Systems

[Jeff Kilgroe]

You can also use EDL export from Premiere.

In addition to what Wes points out, I also don't export the audio. If it's not necessary, no reason it needs to be there in the XML/EDL in case one needs to manually adjust something, just makes for less to sort through. Definitely remove all unused from the newly saved project for export and also replace any proxy footage with the original R3D clips (or other original source media).

But yeah, there's still lots of room for improvement. Hard to get real emotional over it, or at least it is for me, just stuff to work through or work around. Plenty of quirks, issues and general WTF aspects to FCP7 too.

[Tehben Dean]

Thanks guys :)

@Jeff: EDL seems to work as long as you compress everything down onto one track.

@wes: Thanks! I'm glad to hear :)

@cory: I will have to give RCX a shot, I haven't tried importing sequences into there for a while and it never worked well ages ago when I did. Are you importing xml or edl?

[Tehben Dean]

Conforming an XML in RCX from Resolve was amazing and it sent right into Pr from RCX no problem.
Definitely using this more often. :)

[Corey Culp]

I love this community. :)

[Jim Hoffman]

I am having a rough time getting premiere or AE to see my nvidia card on my mac with CS6... anyone care to chime in as to what I'm missing here? OSX Lion and Quadro 4000 for Mac. This has become almost unusable trying to work with R3D files.

[Cory Petkovsek]

@Jim, your question has nothing to do with this thread. You should start a new one or post in another if related. There are at least two recent threads on gpu acceleration in premiere cs6.
Here is one:
http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthr...ade-it-worse!)

Off hand make sure you have cuda AND video drivers installed.