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CS4, what are your feelings?
I was just about to push the submit order button on CS4, when I hesitated. For those of you who have used it would you recommend it? I have to admit I am getting tired of how insanely buggy CS3 is, and the Tech support guy was telling me how much better CS4 is.
I have alot of problems with Encore, which is my main reason for wanting to upgrade. Plus the whole Dynamic Link thing sounds fantastic and I understand there is alot more support for the P2 format now.
But I want your advice. Every penny counts, so I dont want to throw my money out the window.
I have CS3 versions of After Effects, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Encore and On Location and I was thinking of picking up the Production Premium Collection. In your opinion so far, is it worth it?
Thanks.
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How about downloading the trial ?
Every machine is differnt so there are really no guarantees, but since the trial is almost fully functional, 30 days should tell you if it’s going to work for you.Vince Becquiot
Director | EditorKaptis Studios
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Unfortunately the trial version does not support MPEG of any sort and does not include Encore, so this won’t help the OP.
Adobe usually offers a thirty-day money-back guarantee. Check with them and perhaps go that route.
Cheers
Eddie -
I’ve been using CS4 now for a few days – I installed it (perhaps stupidly?) midway through a project, but so far it hasn’t screwed anything up majorly. It does a few things differently from CS3, and seems to have a few odd bugs, but presumably these’ll be ironed out. The best thing about it so far is a better Media Encoder, which works a lot more like After Effects, in that if you’re editing something with multiple sequences, you can send them all to the media encoder in a queue, and then go away and leave it – rather than doing them one by one with CS3, then being told when it’s almost done that “the application failed to return a video frame” when it runs out of memory. The Speech Search function is a bit of a white elephant, as far as I can tell… I used it on a talking heads clip with decent audio and no background noise, and it transcribed nothing but gibberish.
Oh, and another possibly useful thing is that formats are now set on a sequence rather than project basis, so you can have one sequence at SD res, another at HD, or whatever. Haven’t needed to use that yet but it sounds like a good idea (and one that all the other major editing packages have had for a while anyway).
I don’t think it does anything you can’t live without, compared to CS3, so if budget is an issue I don’t think you’ll lose anything by sticking with CS3 for a while. Plenty of people still use CS2 after all.
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I pre-purchased CS4 and began using the day it was released. What a mistake !!!!!!
I am working on Mac so there may be some discrepancies between Mac and PC but my experience has been nightmarish. I thought I had problems in CS3 – they were nothing compared to the bugginess and crashing in CS4. And there is absolutely NOOOOOO help at Adobe’s Tech Support.
SAVE YOUR MONEY !!!!! I wish I had 🙁
Be the best you can be, everyday!
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Hi Rose Mary,
I’m interested if you did a clean install with the CS4 Cleaners. I know many mac users aren’t in the habit of uninstalling apps properly as removing apps usually means throwing it in the bin. Adobe’s apps really need to be uninstalled and installed properly. Run the cleaners.
I have worked with CS4 on both PC and Mac and find it solid and stable. On both systems we ran the cleaners.
With any App it has always been standard practice to expect the first release to come with some bugs, not just adobe, FCP 6 has plenty of odd bugs, which was why we only upgraded that about 3 months ago from a rock solid 5.1.4
I hope you find the soon to come 4.01 update a boost to your workflow.
Jon Barrie
aJBprods
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With CS3 I had to export to avi and use Nero or pinnacle to get a project complete. My dumb self goes out to buy CS4, and now I have to use pinnacle to edit and encore to burn. This sux. I can’t even forward through edit points. Can’t get through 30 minutes with out it crashing.
My 12 yr old son burns DVD’s of his football games all edited in Pinnacle with no problems. It even has mixed format mp3s and converted video from youtube and myspace.
I don’t know, maybe I need to just get a MAC
PC Specs- 4gig Ram, Core 2 Duo 2.66g, 4tb hdd, Geforce 8600
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