I just sent the following FR to Adobe. I believe it's the single biggest thing missing in PP. If you agree that this would help your workflow, please support these ideas by reposting them in your own FRs here: http://www.adobe.com/go/wish.
Any tweaks you would suggest for an event better workflow? Please share!
Cheers
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FCPX and FCP7-style subclip creation
How would you like the feature to work?
FCPX-style subclips:
- 1. Ability to assign keyboard shortcuts to Bins (e.g. numbers 0-9 on keypad).
- 2. While playing a clip in the Source Monitor, hitting one or more of these shortcuts would automatically send the whole clip or its marked in/out range to the linked Bin(s), without interrupting playback.
- 3. For easy reference, Bins with a shortcut could display the shortcut in the Bin's name. For example, a Bin named 'Interviews' would automatically appear as 'Interviews {1}' if associated with that shortcut.
FCP7-style subclips:
- 1. Ability to drag/drop trimmed clips from the Timeline back into one or more Bin, together with any associated effects and keyframes.
IMPORTANT NOTE: In order to be useful, these subclips would have to maintain flexible in/out points (i.e. ability to trim in/out points out to the clip's original duration)
Why is this feature important to you?
Being able to organize/search for partial clips in the Project window is much better than doing so in the Timeline since Bins are: keyword searchable, sortable, and viewable in 2 modes (Icon or List view). But most of all, easy subclip creation would help keep the Timeline free of all non immediately-relevant media, since any clips for later use could be stored in Bins instead of in the Timeline.
The lack of any easy, flexible and intelligent subclip creation/organization in PP remains it's biggest shortcoming, IMO. PP's current method of creating subclips - that can't be created on the fly from the Source Monitor, can't contain imbedded effects/keyframes, and can't have flexible in/out points - is of little real world use.
Adding FCPX and FCP7-style subclip creation/organization in Premiere Pro would make editing easier for most, if not all, editors: including documentary filmmakers with lots of footage to sort, music video editors who want to store B-roll clips for later use, FCP editors migrating to PP, and on and on!