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Back to 1.5
After completely edited a wedding using PP2 I think to go back to PP1.5. I know is a great effort from the developers and beta testers but I couldn’t find a “great improvement” for me. A found a better lay-out for the working area. I disagree with the jumping cursor (can be desactivated?)and the image in my TV monitor is stutering & jumping. This won’t happen with 1.5
A better choice could be that the cursor stay in the last cut when a portion of the clip is removed.
I can’t find other thing different from the 1.5. apart of a yellow border to show the activated window and the audio mixer.Can’t find the intergration with Encore 2 either. So I burned my disc with Encore 1.5. (I know this will take practice)
The conforming audio is still there… the capture is exactly the same; no improvement in the captured clips location. Despite I open a new folder the captured clips are spread all over. Have to pay attention very close to see if they fall in the right folder. same as 1.5
The TL rendering time is the same. Only about 4 new transitions effects was added. Can’t find more effects like the “Global” for simulate the old “Video Toaster”. (this help doing crazy things; not for weddings)I don’t have the necesity of 2 or 3 cams mixing yet, so this is not for me.
I used to edit with Applied Magic ScreePlay and A&B roll is old in this system; same happen with “copy & paste” to make global changes, i.e dissolve between clips; or clips duration from 1 frame to 1 minute with one click stroke. Same with rubber band effect control… Where are they in 1.5 or 2?
I think PP2 could be named 1.6. Not 2. I was in the hope of big changes.
I know…I know: every editor have his own needs. This is why I speaking of me. PP2 don’t suit my needs better than 1.5! and haven’t the ideal tools to please my needs when editing.
Why I’m using instead of ScreenPlay?? Because of the integration of other software to complement my editions… like “Bluff Titler, 3D Album, etc. and the convenience of a good looking menu/chaptered DVD.HP Multimedia center
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Hi, Hector. I see lots of reasons to go with 2.0 over 1.5. I notice that if you have a lot of rendering to do, it breaks it up into 2700 frame parts so that if you cancel the rendering so that you can play a segment, you don’t loose a lot of time.
The flexibility of the Panel/Window placement is worth lots of praise. It makes it easy for you to access your preferred frequently used panels.
I was hoping to see background rendering and a host of other features. However, I can wait for many of them. I see a definite improvement over 1.5, and would miss the many new features if I had to go back.
There are lots of features I find worthwhile. Maybe some of the other users will mention some of their favorite.
— L. James
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well for one thing, and this is encore related but it still kind of applies, I won’t be doing wedding photo montages in premiere anymore because of how good the slideshow feature is in encore. But in speaking about Premiere I think that it has a lot of worthwhile features (obviously not everyone does the same stuff), but here are my favorites.
JKL editing is much more responsive.
Image pans that couldn’t be played back on a dual xeon 3.6 now playback realtime in premiere 2.0 on a pentium d 830. WOW
Multi cam (even though I won’t be doing a lot of it, the times that I do have to do it are going to be way easier).
Native HDV editing
Ability to import Premiere HDV timelines into After Effects
Clip Notes (although they need to make it so you can easily change the presets)
The higher bit color rendering is going to be good
Playback actually seems much smoother to me (I invested in a OpenGl 2.0 card though, so maybe that’s the secret)
Being able to use dynamic link from AE 7.0 is going to save me a ton of time in premiere and encore.
But, once more, everyone is different, so have fun with 1.51
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I’m going back to 1.5 as well. Try and make a lot of subclips from a large master clip and put them on the timeline. PPRO 2.0 is terrible. If you don’t believe me, try this:
1) Import a “large” video file (mine was about 1 hour)
2) Double click the file in the project window so it opens in the source window.
3) Scrub the CTI in the source window to the middle of the clip, set an inpoint
4) Move the CTI approximately 5 minutes forward and set your outpoint.
5) Drag the clip from the source window to the project window.
6) Rename your subclip something.
7) Double click the subclip in the project window so it is opened in the source window and try to play it. (Tried on a couple of machines and it does not play, the hard drive just reads.)
Drag from the source window to the timeline and try to play the timeline…..Same Thing. -
>After completely edited a wedding using PP2 I think to go back to PP1.5
Sometimes upgrades aren’t always an improvement. I’ve found that a few times with Adobe products. An example: I think Photoshop 5 does a better job at exporting JPG images than Photoshop CS2. Hence, I still keep 5 installed.
When rumours went around that PPro 2.0 was around the corner, I got my business partner to rush in an order for 1.5 to make sure we had it before 2 came out. (We only had PPro 1.0 until recently, when we purchased a new HDV camera.) I knew from using the trial version of 1.5 that it would work for us, but couldn’t risk waiting for the 2.0 trial and finding out it had problems. When Adobe ships a new version, they stop selling the previous one, and then you’re stuck.
Earl R. Thurston
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I just installed 2.0 and when I go to a Sequence that has a number of sub-sequences in it Premiere Pro 2.0 comes to a halt – it continues to use processing power and 1.5 Gigs of Ram but freezes and eventually crashes. I’ve tried re-installing it but the same thing.
I have the latest top of the line Sony Vaio desktop “RC210” P4 3GHZ Dual Processor with 2 gigs of ram and raid 0 Hard drives.
I don’t know what’s going on.
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