Comments on PPRO CS3

[Phil Grimpo]

I guess I still think there are workflow problems. Why can’t I just overlap two clips and have my default transition be placed between them? It’s such a pain and really slows things down. Also, it would be nice if I could still edit while the timeline is playing back. That way I can better adjust audio, or edit down in the line while the playhead is still moving. Anytime I click anywhere the timeline stops. Is this still true in CS3? I’m assuming so. I wouldn’t say this is a “huge” upgrade, but I’m sure I’ll be making the move. I still need to hold on to Sony Vegas and SpeedEdit though to accomplish other tasks, etc.

That’s my $.02

[Deleted User]

Hello,

I would say that an ability to import/export Audio as OFM into the Timeline as well as nativly work with Sony HD-XDCAM. I would like to be able to take a Premeire pro and any title in the project so once it’s opened as a Premiere Pro project in After Effects the title will be editable and also the transitions get incorporated rather then the placeholders.

Export OMF audio to Pro Tools is a major issue, as Final Cut pro and Avid both allow the creation of OMF audio files.

64 Bit would be great as well on all Applications running Vista 64 bit with 4GB of Ram.

Thanks,

Leo

[Nick Szpara]

Still no native support for P2/DVCProHD, so I’m switching to Avid

[Tim Mirande]

I’m still trying to absorb all that is there before I comment, but I do have a question.

Part of the Production Premium suite includes Adobe Connect. Adobe Connect is sold as a subscription service at $39.95 per month, or $395 per year. Given that it’s ‘included’ in the suite, do you know for what time period this is?

I’ve used Adobe Connect Professional at the office for about a year now and it’s really fairly powerful. I look forward to the personal version. I think it’s limited to 15 concurrent seats but that’s not too bad.

Thanks for any info you (or anyone else) has on this subject.

Tim

Anything worth doing is worth over-doing!

[Marcus Van bavel]

Raylight has native DVCPROHD support for Premiere Pro, you can drag the MXF files
straight in to your project window.

[Aanarav Sareen]

[Tim Mirande] “Given that it’s ‘included’ in the suite, do you know for what time period this is?”

From my Acrobat 8 Pro experience, I would say that the trial is valid for 60 days. Other than that, you’ll have to pay the usage and subscription fees. However, don’t quote me on that 😉 I’ll try to get official info for you, if interested.

Thanks,
Aanarav

Aanarav Sareen
premiere@asvideoproductions.com
https://www.asvideoproductions.com/techtalk

[Vince Becquiot]

Marcus,

Since you are distributing Raylight, would you mind telling us a little more about it, and do you offer a trial version?

I know Steven works with DVCPro, and I am looking for an alternative to HD SDI to reduce budgets on location shoot.

Cheers,

Vince

[Greg Beckt]

It’s always hard to tell with Adobe. They tend to highlight a few items with the “launch” and then you find out they fixed or added a few items when you install it. Often times those fixes are more important to many of us than the “new features”.

Time Remapping: Finally!…I’ll second that. I’ve been pushing for this since 1.0. Watching the webcast, it was a bit funny when they demo’d this…I think people felt compelled to give a courtesy clap when they were probably thinking, “WTF…the competition has had this for 5 years”.

Media Management: It looks like there may be some strides here, but all they spoke about was having multiple project windows open. What about the ability to batch capture an off-line sequence (without using the consolidate workaround)…and importing bins to other projects.

FX Presets: Once again, a bit hard to tell what functions they’ve added but hopefully there’s more to be said here. For example, multiple FX saved as one Preset…and I’d like to see these as buttons in their own small window where you could apply them to multiple clips at once (avoiding drag and drop or copy and paste). Being able to replace clips and have the FX stay in place like AE is great though…just hope there’s a keyboard shortcut for this versus how they demo’d it.

Multiple user Keyboard settings is great.

Integration: Having tighter integration with PSHOP and AE is great. Last year’s addition of Dynamic Link wasn’t quite compelling enough for me to use it, considering it unrendered other comps (hope that is fixed), and the way you initiated linked comps. Copy and paste seems a bit more intuitive since you’d probaly decide to initiate an AE comp from stacked layers already in your PPro sequence.

Encore Integration and BluRay: Great stuff here!

All in all, I hope there’s a little more to the story (small features). Adobe sometimes seems to be focused on far reaching items (like previewing how your video will look on a particular NOKIA phone) instead of making a more efficient editor for those coming over from Avid, FCP or *edit.

[Marcus Van bavel]

Yes, there is a trial version at https://dvfilm.com/raylight

Raylight is a DVCPROHD encoder and decoder, and also
a file import plugin for Premiere allowing you to import
MXF directly into the program. There are two quality
levels for playback so you can adjust for the speed
of your computer system. You edit HD in native-size
of square pixel format.

It can handle MXF files from P2 Cards, Firestore,
or it can also work with DV Rack AVI’s.

Other features include P2 card authoring and conversion
of mpeg2 (HDV) and MXF files to AVI.

It’s $195.

[Hhv_pro]

According to Adobe propagandas on PPro CS3, it will include Adobe OnLocation which was DV Rack