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The Project Manager can help you collect a project to a new location. Collecting files copies the current project and all of its associated media files to a single storage location. There is no conversion of files when the files are copied.When collecting a project, you can specify whether the new project retains any of the unused clips from the original project. You also reduce storage requirements by using only the media required to create and export the sequences in the project.You can use this workflow to gather and copy a project’s source media files stored in various locations into a single location for easy sharing. Renames the copied footage files with the same names as your captured clips.
Select this option if you rename your captured clips from within the Project window and want the copied footage files to have the same name. (Captured files that you import, especially those captured using scene detection, may not have intuitive names, so you may want to rename them from within the Project window.) This option ensures that the filename of the actual captured footage is updated to reflect the new name in the Project window, greatly simplifying the organization of your footage files. Selecting this option for an MXF file will not change the User Clip Name in the file’s XML; however, it will change the filename of the clip copied for the trimmed project to match the clip name shown in the project panel.
It was announced at IBC and shipped at Adobe MAX (I wonder if this will become the norm?) and it’s another big update to Adobe Premiere Pro. When this update was announced but now that we’ve had the chance to work with it we can dig in a bit deeper. I’d have posted this sooner but I’ve been editing!The first thing you’ll notice is the interface. It’s darker and the preference won’t lighten the interface to the near white that it was before. Gone are the yellow high-lights and outlines of windows and that is replaced with a brand-new blue.
Edit: I'm on the latest adobe premiere CC, and a 2017 iMac. FIXED: Looks like I had a corrupted project file. The fix was pretty simple, I opened my project file, right-clicked on my primary sequence, copied it to the clipboard. Then, I created a brand new project file and pasted the sequence in the library. Everything automatically imported.
I like the blue over the yellow of before as I think it’s easier on the eyes when staring at it for hours on end. And I have started at it for hours on end.The old yellow highlights and outlines are on the left. The new PPro 8.1 blue is on the right.
The track selectors now get colored as well.More than that I’m a fan of interface refreshes in general as I think it keeps them more engaging as long as it don’t break things. The buttons and other interface elements now just look cleaner. If you remember the cluttered Adobe Premiere Pro of old this current interface is something you probably thought you’d never see. It’s welcome.The biggest interface change that tripped me up was the removal of the little fly out menus from the upper right corner of all the windows.
That would often include the Undock and Close Panel as well as some specific window functionality. Many of those options have been moved into a pulldown menu that’s to the right of each tab. Other less interface related options have been moved to the Settings wrench menu. I think this is a good thing as there’s less clutter and menus all around but it definitely takes getting used to since we’ve lived with those upper right-hand corner menu options for so long.Above is the Source window flyout menu in the old PPro. Many things beyond video scopes were in that menu.The close and window options are now under a little menu to the right of a tab.
Above is that menu for the new Source window. Things like video scopes, overlays, etc. Are located under the Settings wrench.And there are no longer little close X’s to the right of each tab as apparently people were accidentally closing too many windows. Closing a tab or a panel now takes a trip under that new menu with the exception of tabs in the timeline.
They still have the little close X. I’m all for decluttering the interface so I like this change.And if you always took a trip to the interface preference and changed the interface look to a burning bright white you’ll be disappointed as the brightest the interface can go now isn’t near as bright as it used to be.Pre–8.1 you could take the interface to nearly white. I never saw anyone in the wild with their interface that bright.That’s as light as you can go with the slider now. I bet I’ll never see anyone in the wild with their interface that bright.This is a simple but welcome addition: the ability to change the font size in the project window as well as bins. My eyes thank you Adobe though I wish they could go bigger. And this font size is universal and not on a per bin basis which is a bummer as there are times I like a big font in one bin and a small font in another.Right click on the tab name and the font size is an option down below. This changes the font size of the tab name itself as well as the columns headings when in list view.There’s a few important workflow things that were added in this version but as usual the things that really matter most to me (and I think most working editors out there) are the small enhancements that we work with on a daily basis.Consolidate and transcode.A new option in the long suffering Project Manager tool is an option to consolidate and transcode a sequence into a new format with only the clips used in that sequence.
A bonus is the option to truncate the clips with only what was in the edit and include handles.Above is the new options in the Project Manager. Note the Convert After Effects Compositions to Clips option.
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That’s a nice additionAnother new option in 8.1 is the inclusion of Cineform internally as a mastering codec. Cineform is a great, cross platform option.Premiere has always had a Project Manager but what it was never able to do is transcode and what it wasn’t very good at was truncating clips to collect only what was used in the edit. I have had only partial success with the Project Manager over the years and with some formats it would never work properly with Premiere copying the entire clip instead of just the media used with handles specified.Just for comparison, here’s the old Project Manager.I tried this new feature on sequences that hadn’t worked in the past including C300 and RED edits as well as some ProRes. The C300 worked like a charm transcoding very quickly with only the video media in the edit and 10 frame handles. I tried to transcode to both QuickTime ProRes and DNXHD 175X and the transcodes were very fast and accurate with the exception of one error where it didn’t work with a large ProRes file transcoding to XDCAM. In that case it just copied the entire 18 gig file and left that clip in the timeline. I said “video media” above because the imported audio in the sequence did not truncate and Premiere copied the entire audio file into the new folder.
Not a dealbreaker but worth noting if you have a lot of audio files. And when I say this for the audio files that is non-camera audio like music, sound effects and secondary sound that was recorded on the shoot.
The audio that was part of the video files was truncated properly with 10 frame handles.When attempting consolidate and transcode on a couple of sequences with lots of different types of media I was often presented with this message:That usually meant there are files it would not be able to transcode with handles so those sequences had originals copied over. Not ideal because most of the sequences had all matching resolutions and frame rates so I’m not sure why it was unable to properly make the transcode.When I tried consolidate and transcode of a sequence with RED media it was a different story. I made several attempts and Premiere would hang on the transcode media step in the project manager. Yes RED files can take a long time to debayer but I ended up just trying to consolidate couple of seconds and it still got hung up. I want to try that on a different machine just to confirm.The Transcoding Media option is new in this update. When trying to Consolidate and Transcode RED this is where it stopped.Unlike Avid Media Composer where transcoding a sequence will get you a brand-new sequence in the project and lots of new media to the Avid Media Files media folder, Premiere places all of the new media into your designated folder as well as a new project file. That actually makes it quite easy to move just a single sequence to a different place or import the transcoded edit back into your project via the Media Browser.
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I think most of the time I would prefer this method to what Media Composer does. This new folder gets designated with a transcoded prefix in the folder name. It would be nice if the project file as well as the sequence within the project could get a transcoded designation as well just to keep it easy to identify.Another thing the Project Manager can’t do is use the collect files and copy to new location option to truncate clips with handles. You can check the Exclude Unused Clips but it would be nice to be able to copy just media used in an edit with handles. This would be great for moving the single sequence that is already in a desired codec or format to a new location by only copying the media in the edit.
I don’t quite understand why that isn’t an option. Let’s hope for that in the future update.Overall the new consolidate and transcode feature seems to have mixed results. This is the first implementation of this new feature so I’m sure it’ll continue to get better.
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