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You guys need to get your PP s*** sorted out 😑
By @sk_23734
Don´t get me wrong, but it seems that you need some basic training on how Premiere Pro works. Without knowing the basics, you will be lost since there is a steep learning curve for Premiere Pro. There are a ton of great tutorials on YouTube and other places. They will among other things learn how to set up a timeline, how to export without getting black bars. Getting black bars is not Premiere Pro´s fault, that´s a user error if they are not present in the edit. Knowing the basics will help with that. 🙂
Ahh, similar to me! My first use of Photoshop professionally was Photoshop 4! Lightroom wasn't the beta, but I guess it must have been v 1 as I was sold immediately on not having to process each frame separately. (I used to shoot profesionally on film and transparency, so I know what you mean about the darkroom too!)
Your ignorance of the massive difference between stills work and video is both expected and needs correcting.
Seriously, almost nothing about stills work translates to video. As I found out the hard way myself! Yowza ...
Ahh, but here's where we disagree. Have you ever hired a car, and sat in it for ages, trying to figure out where the wipers are? Or how to work the radio?! That last one can be a killer! The thing is, you know how to drive, you know where you want to go, how to get there, where the petrol station is ... but the interface is all wrong! One way you go about this is hiring a car from the same manufacturer all the time. So you might only hire Fords, or I might only hire VWs.
It's the same here with PP! I know what I want to do, but I don't know how to do it. I know how other Adobe apps work, I know the language, I know the lingo, but when I come onto PP, it's all worth nothing. That should not be the case. Or at the least, there should be a setting that runs the app with the language that I'm farmiliar with. There's one to seting to change the workspace into something suitable for editing, or for this, or for that. There should be one to make it understandable from a PS school of thought.
There isn't a great deal of difference in the medium of film or stills, I disagree with you there. They both do the same thing, they both use the same light, they both use the same type of attention, they both use a similar languge. There are foibles, yes, but it's not like thinking 'I'm a photographer, I'll take that skill set and apply it to poetry'.
The point that I was trying to make is twofold:
First - the point I made about cars. When you use any Adobe app, it should all work in the same manner.
Second - the PP app is wrong-headed in so many ways in my opinion.
On this last point, take for example something I've said above: why should I have to use a LUT in the export to create a file that looks the same as it does on my screen? That really doesn't make any sense, no? (unless there's only two colour spaces that it can export into ... and why should that be the case?! A google search turns up "Premiere is a broadcast focused application, and the only color spaces it can output are rec709 for SDR and rec2100 for HDR". Now I've no idea if that's right, but if it is, it's weird having to find a LUT to make the colours on a regular mp4 the same as they are on my monitor.)
You say that "video processing apps, cannot be anything like stills work Period, end of story" but I think that's not correct, it needn't be that way. Sure, the way things are set up with PP, it's a killer trying to transfer PS skills to PP, but that is just because of how Adobe sets up the interface, not because of anything inherent to stills or motion.
Hope you're well 🙂
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