Prelude…why?

[Harvey Goldberg]

One other thing, as I play with it, it keeps crashing. I have a brand new HP laptop that should more than handle anything Prelude can do but so far it has crashed six times in an hour. The rest of CS6 seems to be very stable.

[Chris Borjis]

I never use it either.

Just import my card files after duping them to the array and get to cutting.

[Angelo Lorenzo]

It doesn’t make a lot of sense in a one-man-band workflow.

Where you start seeing it shine is where you might have a field producer going through clips, doing rough assembly cuts or for an assistant editor. Documentaries, reality, news and so on.

OnLocation was a very narrow app for a very niche application. Prelude is, although light on features, can find itself being used more often. You’ll notice it has system requirements much lighter than other CS applications so producers can use it on an average consumer computer. I think you’ll also find it much more valuable in some workflows once Adobe Anywhere kicks in.

As to why it’s so unstable, I’m not sure. Worked like a charm on Win7, haven’t had a chance to play with it since I recently upgraded to Win8.

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[Dennis Radeke]

Prelude is a file-based ingest, metadata logging, tagging and rough cut tool. I agree that it doesn’t make sense for one-man or small shops. This product was designed in tandem with two large broadcasters where hundreds of users are involved.

Prelude allows a shooter, producer or other non-editor type who has some skills with story telling to select clips, create relevance through metadata and then hand off a rough cut to an editor to add titles, graphics, voice-over, b-roll, etc.etc.

This is one of a couple of interesting workflows. Hope this creates some clarity for you.

Here’s the page link with a lot of info: Adobe Prelude

Dennis – Adobe guy

[Richard Cardonna]

I am not one of the big guys but i use to transcode from sd files. I wish its ability to do pre edits could be expanded for more clips and work like a storyboard interface. many times I need to rearrange clips and photos and its apain.

RicHRD

[Harvey Goldberg]

I see. Most of what I do is shot today and edited today so Prelude probably doesn’t do a lot for me.

If I could bring in a long interview and easily drop a lot of sound bites on a timeline and then transcode them that might be useful but at the moment it is far easier to just open up Premiere and do it that way.

I wonder though why it is so unstable. I’m running Windows 7, and the rest of CS6 is rock solid.

[Michael Hendrix]

I believe Prelude was a piece of software that was designed specifically for CNN and one other media outlet. Really designed to work in a large organization where one person may ingest, then the producer may do a rough cut before the editor even touches it. Adobe decided to include that in the CS6 package.

If you are a one man band, it doesn’t do you much good. Where it can help is in the field. If you are in a situation of dumping media cards, Prelude will allow you to transfer those cards to as many locations as you want (ie, main drive and backup) AND, this is a big AND, does verify the copy. It actually does a bit level check to really ensure successful transfers.

With that, I think its a great base for Adobe to build on that fits specific workflows for transfering/logging/rough cutting footage.

[Alex Udell]

Hi Harvey…

Partial Ingest file based media and optional send off to transcoding for Consolidation friendly post project codecs are two things I see as potential strong benefits of Prelude that many overlook.

Alex

[Harvey Goldberg]

I work for ABC News which is almost entirely Avid based. I think I am the only one using Adobe. Most of what I do now is XDCam disk, but it will be changing to SxS cards. Sony has a browser that transfers the entire contents of a card…but it sounds as if Prelude may do that better. I will check into that. Thanks everybody this is all very good info.