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Today on Film Riot we open up Adobe Premier and we answer what we’ve already answered.
Hey you guys, hi. I don’t feel like saying that opening bit that I usually say, so yeah,
I’m not gonna. Instead watch this…
Your body is like a mountain of ash, life is a lie, filled completely with glorious
colors. The doors of wisdom open before you. Free yourselves, because nirvana approaches
soon, approaches soon.
So since I made my angry outburst episode about the new Final Cut, which I prefer to
refer to as Final Cut Ex for good reason.
What’s happening here! What is this all about, it all seems like a nightmare!
Anyways, since that episode I have been getting asked, ‘’what will I do now, will I stay
with Final Cut 7, or move to a different program?’’ like this question for instance, ‘’Ryan,
what will you do now, stay with Final Cut 7, or move to another program?’’ You know
in hindsight I see that there was really no reason to show that question.
To answer the question, I’m currently testing some options to decide what I’m going to
make the jump to. I know for sure that I am not staying with Final Cut Pro, I held out
as long as I could hoping that they would catch back up the game and remain the best,
but they’ve left far too many things behind and seem to be heading in the direction of
prosumer. Right now I’m trying Adobe Premier CS5.5 and so far it has been very easy to
switch to and way faster than I’m used to since Final Cut Pro 7 only uses 2.5G of RAM.
I’ve seen a huge increase in speed for playback and render times. Now I was a huge fan of
Final Cut Pro for about six years, for me and most of the industry there was nothing
better. So now making this necessary move is like giving up my rude bratty child for
adoption and then getting a new one, which is like this sweet, really good kid that always
gets the newspaper for me, even though I don’t want it, but it’s so sweet so I read it.
And since I’m a long time Final Cut user the easiest and most logical switch is to
Adobe Premier, so I decided to give it a show. I have been editing my action short ‘Losses’
on it and I’ve got to say, so far I really like it. There is some stuff that I had to
get used to, but overall it’s been a super simple transition. Unlike Apple, Adobe doesn’t
seem egotistical and seems to really care about their product and their customers, can
you imagine that? And they have gone out of their way to make the switch from Final Cut
Pro a painless one. So first of all, Adobe Premier can import your Final Cut Pro projects,
yeah, the new version of Final Cut can’t open your old Final Cut projects, but Adobe
can. Just makes me giggle, I felt like an angry pissed off giggle at Apple. (Bleep)
you Apple, I hope there’s a worm in you.
Doing this is super easy, you just open the project in Final Cut, export XML choose either
version 4 or 5, and then open that in Adobe Premier, done and done. Then on top of that
you could easily switch your hotkeys from the Adobe Premier set to the Final Cut Pro
hotkeys that you’re used to, and that is done by going to Premier, Keyboard Shortcuts
and click here and select Final Cut Pro 7, done and done yet again. You can also customize
what other hotkeys you want to here. Another huge upside for me and would be for a lot
of you as well, since a lot you use DSLR, is that Premier can work with DSLR footage
natively, so no more need to convert your footage before you start to work, which for
me, that is a huge and much needed timesaver. It also deals with effects within the software
much better and can play a lot of the effects real time without rendering, and has dynamic
links to After Effects. So for instance with the sketch we did on Monday, when I was working
in Final Cut Pro I would have had to render up my clip, then bring that into After Effects
and do my work, then render that out again to bring back to Final Cut Pro, and if there
were any problems I would have to go back to After Effects, re-render and re-bring back
into Final Cut Pro. But now in Premier, I can go to the clip I need to add effects to,
right click it, select replace with After Effects composition, and then the program
sends my clip to After Effects. Now in After Effects I can do my effects work, hit save
and move back to Premier and what I did in After Effects is now uploaded here. I love
this so so much. There’s a crapload of upsides like enormous speed boost and not that many
downsides that I’ve been able to find yet though there have been some, the time line
has taken some getting used to, although it’s very similar, it feels a little less solid
and there’s no plugin for widescreen bars like Final Cut Pro has and I use that all
the time, so I have to get ghetto with it to get those bars, it’s a little annoying.
I’ve looked for a third party plugin, but have yet to find one, so if any of you know
one, Tweet that bad boy to me. So there you go my quick overview of Premier. As I use
it more and get used to it, I’ll give you guys some more looks at it, but so far if
you’re looking for a move away from Final Cut, I would highly recommend CS5.5, and no,
they don’t sponsor the show at all. It is what I really think.
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I get asked a lot to cover things on Film Riot that we have already covered, which is
understandable since we have something like 125 episodes now, so I thought hey me, to
which I responded, “Yes, what is it?” “We should do a segment where they show
where to find some of these old golden nuggets.” “Ha!” I responded, “Golden nuggets,
that makes me think of poop.” First up, “Hey Ry, you think you could do an episode
on audio and different mics?” Player we already did that (bleep). In fact we did a
whole month on audio, so check this episode, or this mother-(bleep) episode, or this motherflippinlovin
episode. Ain’t no thang but a motherlovin chicken wiiing. “I wanted to do some dolly
shots, but don’t have cash to buy one. Do you think you could show how to build one
on the show?” Motherfather we did that (bleep) too, check the F out of this epilicious, and
I’ll be moved to your heart’s desire talking the desire of your hearts friend. Hold on.
Like that beat. “Ry guy, do you think you could show me how to make fake blood on the
show!?” I don’t think I can, I know I can cause I already did that (bleep), check
this so-sexy-it-makes-a-man-pregnant episode. Learn yourself how to make more fake blood
than a college student makes regrets on Spring Break. We call that social commentary. Drops
the mic, walks off.
Hey, time to say goodbye so I can go fishing, for compliments, which is better than regular
fishing because you don’t have to get up early, get bit by flies or smoke fish for
the rest of the day, plus you feel good. So hey, follow me on Twitter, that’ll be fun
and check out our Facebook, which is fun too, and before I forget, if you haven’t seen
it, check out Revision3’s very own Dan Trachtenberg’s short film ‘No Escape’. It’s based off
the Portal universe and it’s friggin awesome, so go here to this link, watch it and enjoy.
But I’ll see you crazy peeps next week when I fly around the world backwards to revive
my lady friend who I am so sick of saving all the time.