At the same time all these effects will be applied to the clips being inserted to the timeline or already present after the edit is complete. Pre-render clip into proxy or dynamically transcode like in After Effects.Ĭan you see it now? You can work with your source material before making any edit.Composite another clip on top – or even make it a fully-fledged composition.Add additional audio channels or files and synchronize them.In case you are wondering why I am so excited about it, let me make a short list on what you could do with the clips before you put them on the timeline when such option is available: It treats each source clip as a sequence from the get-go. However, Smoke has a feature that in my opinion is awesome, and should be implemented in Premiere Pro as soon as possible. Except from the fact that Premiere will at least attempt to play it, if ordered, and Smoke will just show “Unrendered frame”. I fail to comprehend how it is different from rendering a Dynamic Linked composition in Premiere Pro.
The real trick of Smoke rooms seems to come to clever media management that is obscured from the user. But after creating your comp and coming back to the timeline, you always have to render it to preview. I also didn’t like the fact that the order of applied effects is pretty strict, although ConnectFX, and Action are really well developed and pretty flexible tools coming from the makers of great finishing software.
This constant need of rendering was something that turned me away from Final Cut Pro. Excuse me? As far as I know there is no other NLE on the market anymore that requires it. Something that really turned me off was the fact that something as simple as a clip with an alpha channel would not play in the timeline without rendering. There are a few things to like in Smoke, and there are other not to like. But first let me make an obligatory digression. I hope they don’t have a patent for that, because it’s so fantastic. I will admit right at the beginning – the idea is stolen from Autodesk Smoke 2013.