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CS4 Drivers
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I used Edius for a time, back then, it was the only NLE on PC with proper native MXF Op-Atom (DVCPRO-HD) support, highly stable and reliable most of the time and very fast. Every software choice is a compromise and Edius had a lot of them, i.e audio management was horrendous, keyframing stuff was either not possible or outright a pain in the ass, UI was cluttered and the bin was a source of program crashes.
Premiere is a much more complete NLE, yet it still doesn’t have the stability it should have had by now and CS4 isn’t bringing that much more stability, at least in the version it is now.
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Edius is now up to version Edius 5. It is more “complete” than it was a few years ago, but still rock solid even in Vista 64, and fast. It has more plug ins available now, and hardware for monitoring the time line or encoding for DVD or Blue Ray. You can download a trial version on their website.
Right now I’d like to stick with premiere and Cineform, with a card for viewing the time line on an HDMI monitor. But right now it’s not available, and when and if it is. . . it has to actually work! If this doesn’t happen within a month or two, I’m going to to to Edius 5.
Tilford
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i’ll trade anyone a Intensity pro board and a Bella Premiere Pro keyboard for a HD spark. I’ll even pay shipping! I was on the fence between using good ole reliable Edius or learning Premiere Pro with a Intensity pro card. I made the wrong choice.
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What’s killing me now is that I just got CS4. It’s a pain I know, but I’m going to rely on CS3 drivers for now, for my hot new HD Extreme 3.
Sad face.
Tracy Peterson
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I don’t hate anyone, in fact, I love the improvements in CS4 over CS3 in many ways. And having it in a 64bit environments saves me time every day. Not being the expert, can’t say for sure that any bugs, hangups, or memory dump crashes are Adobe’s error, Microsoft’s, or the workstation itself. But all in all, CS4 workflow is way beyond what it was before especially when doing projects which go in multiple directions/formats/mediums at the same time with the same story.
I just want to hook my ol’ BetaSP deck to the darn system for direct ingestion of vintage material and output for those stations who can’t use digital files for commercials yet. Blackmagic, gimme, please!!!! It looks so great!! And no way am I going back to CS3.
You never get hurt in the air!
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agree with so much above. After having been tied to a keyboard editing since the TurboCube (Mac) and Postbox (win3.1) era, the only thing that has provented me from killing myself, others around me, and definitely black boxes full of chips and drives, has been the sneeze-like reflex of, “work, work, CTRL-S, work, work, CTRL-S….” Don’t care what the software, what the OS, what the box it’s in, “…work, work, CTRL-S”. Makes you a happier person when all flushes down the center pixel on the monitor.
Still beats carrying a thousand pounds of tape decks, swithcers, sync-boxes and monitors (and cheaper) to some location on the other side of the world. But have to admit that I have days when I want to get out the ol’ hammer (ver. 1.1) and go back in carpentry biz, but then I think better of that.
And that’s what I think!
You never get hurt in the air!
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Funny how RED can release CS4 presets and support after the 4.0.1 update but blackmagic can’t……….
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Subscribed for an update. I spent hours yesterday trying to get my Intensity Pro to work with PPCS4 to no avail. Good to see it’s possibly not my fault 😉
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RED also doesn’t seem to mind being in perpetual beta. Have you used the RED on Premiere, how is the performance?
Tracy Peterson
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RED works brilliantly in CS4.
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