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April 3, 2020
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Back to Premiere from Davinci Resolve - my pain points

  • April 3, 2020
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Hello Peeps, I hope you are all doing well and CV19 free!

 

I just spent 2 years using Davinci Resolve and am now happy to be back with Premiere. Resolve has some great bits, but there are many things I find very limiting and poorly executed. Also, AE is just so much easier than Fusion.

 

Here are a few things I have found challenging about Premiere in the last few days editing.

 

1/ There is no ability to graphically see which portion of a clip has been used. Often in making a video, one clip could contain a dozen usable bits. It would be very useful to have a line to show what has been used, not simply the current IO positions for each clip. Display of IO positions of a clip have never had any functional use for me, as the clip has already been edited into the timeline most probably, so there is no call for this being a priority when double clicking the clip opens it in source monitor where the IO can be more accurately seen anyway!

 

2/ There is no command to switch selected clip on the timeline with the previous or next clip. Is very useful to perform this accurately as drag and drop can inadvertently snap to a track which is imperceivably near, but not at the same place in time, so you can get poor results.

 

3/ I don't see a command to load source clip from bin to Source monitor, and there is no way to play clip in bin (without mousing about) - so this lacks keyboard control ability. ENTER simply allows you to rename the clip, it would be good to prioritise commands for a mouse free edit... much faster than mousing about, but one needs the commands.

 

4/ this is a smaller thing, but IMO the command to remove In and Out points would be much more sensible if it was Alt-X. This is more logical because X is used to select the clip at CLI cursor position, and ALT-X would remove those points. Alt is directly below X so this would be a very easy solution instead of the multi-keyed current command.

 

Thanks!

 

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MyerPj
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 3, 2020

1) Not sure if you meant more graphically then this, but if you turn on 'Duplicate Frame Markers' from the timeline wrench icon, you can then drop a full clip onto the timeline and the used sections are displayed graphically...

 

R Neil Haugen
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April 3, 2020

1 would be nice to have.

 

I think for 2, Ctrl/Alt-drag would be what you're looking for ... shuffle edit. It will take the selected clip and move it whichever direction you want, and "ripple" move any other clips around it. Using the Alt key locks the changes to only that one track.

 

3 ... double-clicking a clip in a bin loads that clip into the Source monitor. And JKL work for any monitor while it has 'focus'. In fact, JKL work to play selected clips in bins also. Make your thumbs large, and you can play them forth and back from the keyboard while in a bin. This works in both standard thumbs view and in Freeform.

 

Of course ... multiple taps of J or L speeds or slows playback.

 

As to the use of Alt for clearing in/out points ... go ahead and remap if you wish. On a PC, using a straight Alt plus a single key often mandatorily goes to a an app window control or a Windows key-short.

 

Neil

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