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PP’s stability for long form Editing
I switched to Final Cut Pro from PPCS4 about a year ago because Premier was very unstable when working on large complicated long form programs. (7 cameras 1hr, w/fair amount of filters & vari speeds) The timeline would get sluggish as the program neared completion & sometimes would not play at all, just crash. Final Cut 7 is much more stable. I understand Media Composer would be much more stable than Final cut.
My question is has Adobe dramatically improved PPCS5’s stablity & responsiveness for complicated long form editing?
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The port to a 64-bit application was an opportunity for us to greatly improve stability and performance—and that’s what we did.
You can see for yourself by trying Premiere Pro CS5.5 free for 30 days.
Here’s an image of someone holding his Best Director award for his feature cut in Premiere Pro:
https://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/thegeekfiles/2010/12/monsters-filmmaker-gareth-edwa.html
… so from that I’d say that you can certainly successfully edit long-form material in Premiere Pro.———————————————————————————————————
Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Technical Support for professional video software
After Effects Help & Support
Premiere Pro Help & Support
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Ted – one of my best friends is a long-time Premiere user, and watching him undertake a 70-minute project in Premiere CS4 two years ago scared me off the program completely!
The difference between CS4 and CS5 really is huge in terms of stability. That same friend is currently working on a 75-minute multi-cam project shot simultaneously on six DSLRs and so far Premiere CS5 is performing like a champ.
With the demise of FCP I’ve actually migrated to CS5.5 myself, and I’m really enjoying the increased power and compatibility with AfterEffects. Keyboard shortcut customization really helps the transition.
Hope that helps…
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Thanks, this is encouraging. I’ve a Kona3 & Kona Li on Mac’s. Are these people doing this on Mac’s or PC’s?
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How does Premier compare running on a Mac vs a PC as far as stability and responsiveness? How about Kona vs other interface cards like black magic? Guess an other issue is Codec. ProRes is our primary codec for original recordings & for rendered edited Masters. It seems like Premier doesn’t work too well with prores.
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I will let others address the Mac vs PC performance issue.
But from my experience (Mac Pro), Prores works wonderfully with Premiere Pro and AE. On a PC you only can buy a playback version of Prorss. Since I have FCP7 on my Mac I can playback and create Prores files. They are the default choice for Mastering at the moment.
Tom Daigon
Avid DS / PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com
Mac Pro 3,1
8 core
10.6.8
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Tom,
Thanks I’ve CS4 on a Windows machine & didn’t know it could playback prores. Do I just go to the apple site & get what? A Quicktime update or?
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Heres a link to it…
https://support.apple.com/downloads/Apple_ProRes_QuickTime_Decoder_1_0_for_Windows
Tom Daigon
Avid DS / PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com
Mac Pro 3,1
8 core
10.6.8
Nvidia Quadro 4000
24 gigs ram
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I’ve been using PPro with a Kona 3 in Mac and to be honest I still get some issues. Sometimes PPro kind of goes to sleep where the video freezes but the timeline still thinks it’s playing. You have to wait a few seconds and it wakes back up and starts playing again. Also yesterday I loaded an mp3 and the song started playing and wouldn’t stop. I had to quit out of Premiere, and it was STILL playing and then do a force quiet of Premiere to get it to stop.
It seems to be better without the Kona but I hope these issues get fixed as currently there is a very big difference between FCP and Premiere as far as responsiveness and reliability with the Kona. I’m sure PPro has a lot more going on when using MPE versus what FCP is doing but this is really important.
Editor/VFX – FCP, Smoke, After Effects, 3DS MAX, Premiere Pro
https://vimeo.com/user3987510/videos
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Thanks for that.
Editor/VFX – FCP, Smoke, After Effects, 3DS MAX, Premiere Pro
https://vimeo.com/user3987510/videos
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Alex-“That same friend is currently working on a 75-minute multi-cam project shot simultaneously on six DSLRs and so far Premiere CS5 is performing like a champ. ”
So how is your friend working around the Multicam limitation of only 4 cameras?
Tom Daigon
Avid DS / PrP / After Effects Editor
http://www.hdshotsandcuts.com
Mac Pro 3,1
8 core
10.6.8
Nvidia Quadro 4000
24 gigs ram
Maxx Digita / Areca 8tb. raid
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