I'm still struggling with a few aspects of this program, and any answers would be much appreciated.
1) How do I "push" some empty space between two clips on the timeline? Right now the only way I know how to do it is to cut-and-paste another clip in between the 2 clips, then delete it, leaving an empty space. Is there a simpler way?
2) Is there a way to automatically generate a list of all the cuts on the timeline, their source clips and the timecodes of each clip, etc.? I have tried some of the EDL functions but they seem pretty cryptic to me.
3) How do I alter the frame rate of *part* of a clip, rather than the whole clip? For instance, if I only want the final 10 seconds of a clip to be in slow-motion, how do I do that? (I've tried separating the clip into 2 clips, then altering frame rate on the second half, but they don't seem to run together smoothly when I do that.)
4) The render/preview functions seem to be very touchy. For instance, once I've rendered a particular effect (say a dissolve or a slow-mo or whatever), a change on a completely different part of the timeline will often cause the earlier effect to "un-render." That part of the timeline hasn't been effected, and the video clip is still in my Video Previews file, but the program doesn't seem to be aware of that and so I have to re-render it.
The problem is this can be very time consuming. Suppose I render a letterbox (clipping) effect over the whole picture, then I want to make some minor changes here and there (seeing how the edit flows in letterbox). If I have to keep re-rendering the letterbox effect after every edit, it'll eat up a lot of time.
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I hope the questions are clear. #4 is the one that annoys me the most. Premiere doesn't seem to "know" when a rendered clip can be left alone and when it can't; it keeps demanding that it be re-rendered even though the unchanged Video Preview file has already been generated. I hope there's a solution to this.
Thanks in advance for any answers.
1) How do I "push" some empty space between two clips on the timeline? Right now the only way I know how to do it is to cut-and-paste another clip in between the 2 clips, then delete it, leaving an empty space. Is there a simpler way?
2) Is there a way to automatically generate a list of all the cuts on the timeline, their source clips and the timecodes of each clip, etc.? I have tried some of the EDL functions but they seem pretty cryptic to me.
3) How do I alter the frame rate of *part* of a clip, rather than the whole clip? For instance, if I only want the final 10 seconds of a clip to be in slow-motion, how do I do that? (I've tried separating the clip into 2 clips, then altering frame rate on the second half, but they don't seem to run together smoothly when I do that.)
4) The render/preview functions seem to be very touchy. For instance, once I've rendered a particular effect (say a dissolve or a slow-mo or whatever), a change on a completely different part of the timeline will often cause the earlier effect to "un-render." That part of the timeline hasn't been effected, and the video clip is still in my Video Previews file, but the program doesn't seem to be aware of that and so I have to re-render it.
The problem is this can be very time consuming. Suppose I render a letterbox (clipping) effect over the whole picture, then I want to make some minor changes here and there (seeing how the edit flows in letterbox). If I have to keep re-rendering the letterbox effect after every edit, it'll eat up a lot of time.
...
I hope the questions are clear. #4 is the one that annoys me the most. Premiere doesn't seem to "know" when a rendered clip can be left alone and when it can't; it keeps demanding that it be re-rendered even though the unchanged Video Preview file has already been generated. I hope there's a solution to this.
Thanks in advance for any answers.
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