PPro 2.0 – disappointments?

[Perry Cheng]

Oh, one more, I know it can export to embed PDF video as well as swf files, however, how about import from SWF or flash video?

Perry

[Aanarav Sareen]

[Perry Cheng] “1. Render to DVD any faster? (I have AMD 64 3200+ w/ 1G DDR RAM) How much?”

Not much of a difference.

[Perry Cheng] “2. Can effects and/or transitions be copied and pasted indvidually?”

Effects could always be copied and pasted individually. Simply select the effect in the ECW and paste it in another ECW.

[Perry Cheng] “3. Any new filter, especially a diffuse filter to create dreamy look?”
Not a dreamy look, but there are ways of achieving that. Also, the new lightning filter might help.

[Perry Cheng]

Effects could always be copied and pasted individually. Simply select the effect in the ECW and paste it in another ECW.

What I meant was selective copy of effects from one clip to another. (e.g. one clip might have multiple effects applied, but I only want to copy some and not the others)

Perry

[Aanarav Sareen]

[Perry Cheng] “What I meant was selective copy of effects from one clip to another. (e.g. one clip might have multiple effects applied, but I only want to copy some and not the others)”

Yes, that is what I meant. Select a clip with multiple effects applied. In the effects control window, select a few of the effects and apply it to other clips.

[Dennis Tzeng]

There’s no blending modes or time remapping in PP 2.0, but the biggest dissapointment was no Panasonic HD codec support. They did say they fixed the 24P Normal strobing effect finally. Multicam mode looked cool. But it seemed like much more attention was paid to After Effects 7.0 than PP or even Audition and Encore.

[Aanarav Sareen]

IMO Encore improved quite a bit, although the ability to import different frame sizes is still not available, it really has gotten better, especially with the slideshow feature, the chapter endpoint feature and a bunch of other tiny things, that had to be done manually earlier. And Audition has improved drastically. I am not an audio guy, but from what I have read, most users approve of Audition.

[Brian Deviteri]

In terms of industry, After Effects needed an update in order to remain competitive. It was seriously due for a major update and that is probably why there is so much more that seems to have been done with it… and all the “bundles” want you to get it now too.

I too am disapointed with no Panasonic DVCPRO HD .MXF/P2 support. On the surface reading everything thing, it really looks possible, but there is no mention at all. I’m waiting for Cineform to step in and show us what they’ve come up with on this one.

The multicam thing for PPro does look cool, but as I said before, it seems like a lot of the 3rd party applications and plug-ins that people were using with PPro 1.5 are now part of PPro 2.0 as a standard. It’s nice, but there were solutions to use before, so I don’t know how highly I hold those new features right now… but I do have to say, I think Adobe’s take on multicam will be a lot more seamless than some of the other solutions I have tried in the past with other plug-ins and editing platforms.

Audition has some nice new features for audio folks, but it’s not an overhaul if that’s what you were expecting. I like the better integration with PPro – a few clicks and you can edit the audio from a clip directly in Audition and then bring it back to PPro, at least that’s what it looks like on paper.

Encore looks good and the workflow seems to look similar to a mesh between some Apple applications and a lot of the higher end Sonic applications. This isn’t a bad thing, but I was expecting to at least see basic authoring support for either HD-DVD or Blue-ray… maybe in an update? I am curious what improvements have been made to dual-layer authoring though, no one has mentioned that at all. But it does look like some of the basics from Encore are now wrapped directly into PPro. Not something that I’d necessarily use for full disc authoring, but it looks like it’s great for one offs and test discs to check materials.