Firts one has been mentioned before but I'm raising it again as to date it hasn't been addressed:
1) When an event is split the right portion looses the audio/video linkage.
This in itself isn't a major issue, so long as you remember it's going to happen. Still I find it has an impact on workflow and needs to be fixed. Last night I did a quick edit job on a high school project. Shot on compact VHS and he'd had a go at editing in camera, all I really had to do was cut out the no takes and clean up the edits. Should have taken less than an hour.
Capture the whole thing as one event and split at each clip, delete no takes. But after the split every time you delete the video you have to also delete the audio track, missed one audio section and then started ripple editing. Audio ends up quite a mess. I fixed it pretty quick so not that big a drama.
But if this was a big project with lots of audio and video tracks I wouldn't have been so lucky.
I know Excalibur will resync audio but that's not what I wanted to do, I'd pulled a few bits of audio to use as fill in other scenes so resyncing all of it would have been a disaster. At least one other NLE that I used to use required a bit of work to unlock the audio and video not matter where I moved it.
2) During PTT loss of sync between bars and start of program.
Again hardly a show stopper but doesn't make for a pro look. This doesn't seem to happen during digital PTT but going through my D8 out to VHS it happens all the time. Bars play out, sync splat and then leader, another sync splat and then program. By the way I'm doing a PAL PTT. I've taken to adding my own leader to programs to make this less obvious but it would be nice if it worked right.
1) When an event is split the right portion looses the audio/video linkage.
This in itself isn't a major issue, so long as you remember it's going to happen. Still I find it has an impact on workflow and needs to be fixed. Last night I did a quick edit job on a high school project. Shot on compact VHS and he'd had a go at editing in camera, all I really had to do was cut out the no takes and clean up the edits. Should have taken less than an hour.
Capture the whole thing as one event and split at each clip, delete no takes. But after the split every time you delete the video you have to also delete the audio track, missed one audio section and then started ripple editing. Audio ends up quite a mess. I fixed it pretty quick so not that big a drama.
But if this was a big project with lots of audio and video tracks I wouldn't have been so lucky.
I know Excalibur will resync audio but that's not what I wanted to do, I'd pulled a few bits of audio to use as fill in other scenes so resyncing all of it would have been a disaster. At least one other NLE that I used to use required a bit of work to unlock the audio and video not matter where I moved it.
2) During PTT loss of sync between bars and start of program.
Again hardly a show stopper but doesn't make for a pro look. This doesn't seem to happen during digital PTT but going through my D8 out to VHS it happens all the time. Bars play out, sync splat and then leader, another sync splat and then program. By the way I'm doing a PAL PTT. I've taken to adding my own leader to programs to make this less obvious but it would be nice if it worked right.