I think the Premiere Pro and Ingest settings and Project Manager windows are great. Can we integrate these media management in all of the video apps, including after effects and audition?

usually, I ingest all my media to a specific folder, and I am bouncing back and forth between all the apps, but when I find new media to use, I need to add it to premiere before in import it into AE.it would be amazing if I can add media to after effects and it adds it to the same folder that I already designated as my ingest folder, without having to go into premiere first, let it copy and import, then import it into AE then start working on it...

Is this a possibility?

I make a lot of graphics package templates for editors, and as excited as I am about Essential Graphics, there appears to be a major thing missing in my opinion.

Often we make title cards that contain text and a brand icon. The current set up for EG doesn't allow you to switch out something like an icon (which is usually a precomp in my set ups).

Ideally you could add in a precomp or layer to the EG panel, and in the form of a drop down menu, you could select several other comps or assets (stills, video, whatever) that it could be swapped out for in Premiere.

So let's say I have "icon 1" in my EG panel. Under a dropdown I could specify to swap "icon 1" for "icon 2", "icon 3", etc. The user could define which items the original file could be swapped for.

Most of these title cards are super simple and would be perfect to be made into an EG template for Premiere, but until there's a way to change out images/footage/precomps in a template, I'm stuck doing these simple tasks in AE instead of passing it off to an editor.

Make a media player for small film festivals that on the chosen output (HDMI output) has the framerate of the played file.
A player with a playlist in which you can set the audiolevel of each file, set audio routing for each file, insert stills with a duration you can set while playing some music which you can set to a certain level.
It should play all possible files (like Premiere). With a Black Magic shuttle you can alter the framerate on the output of the blackmagic box. This means the Cinema beamer with HDMI in will switch (*****) to theinputted HDMI framrate. Thus finally the frameskipping of a Macbook pro or Imac is gone.
A Imac with a second screen (being the cinema beamer/projector) you have to set the refreshrate of the Imac, you can choose between 50hz or 60Hz. This is OK for 25 Frames per second (50Hz) or 30 Frames per second 60 Hz. Switching is manual and causes a black screen on the output while retiming. And all of the films of 24 Frames per second, 23,98 and 29, 97 have frames skipped since their timing does not fit onto 30 or 50 cycles.

It is about time that you come with a player for this purpose to accomodate small festivals that cannot afford DCP players, although it would be brilliant if your player would do DCP's as well.
But the playlist needs to be programmable, just like CueLab (Cuelab does not switch timing on the output either). Maybe Cuelab is a bit elaborate but a good example!

good luck let me know when it is ready so I can Test it :-)

Frank Koppelmans

Having worked with Nuke, I have often thought that it would be great if one could incorporate and automate Photoshop in Nuke projects as an OFX plugin. While in Nuke, I often think that, would it not be great, if I could simply drop a Photoshop node into my Nuke script to then chose one of its many powerful tools which I know could get the job done quicker and more elegantly. For example, imagine dropping a Photoshop node into a Nuke script and choosing the quick select tool, and then animate not only the location of the selection across time but also within a frame. Now that's powerful. It would also mean that Photoshop as a tool could become a standard tool in the VFX workflow, not only for textures and stills, but for video as well.