Premiere CS3 Beta is not really a Beta!

[Robert Bec]

Addman

why would you take PPro any day over FCP what are your reasons.

here are some of the new features in FCP2

1. mix virtually any video format at any frame rate in realtime -GREAT

2.Apple

[Eric Addison]

Wow, you sound like the guy from Apple I spoke with at NAB.

I’m not going to take anyhthing away from Final Cut Studio 2. I saw the demos and it has some impressive features. I edit with Final Cut on occassion and it’s a great editing tool.

But for me, I like Adobe’s stuff. I love the level of integration. I love the look and feel of the programs. I won’t list off it’s features – go to the Adobe website and you can see Production Studios great features.

I can edit HD with PPro, so that’s not such a selling point. As for the stuff with Motion and the Smooth Cam stuff, I have After Effects and Dynamic Link. Motion is nice – the new version is real nice in fact, but for me, it’s still no After Effects. And as for Color, again it’s nice, but AE has a great color correction tool, and Red Giant’s new color correction tool looks real interesting.

It’s all about preference. The software is just a tool. I prefer Adobe’s tools. For me, they work the way I like to work. And I feel they work better.

[Vince Becquiot]

Everything listed here has been available in Premiere for years.

BTW, Smoothcam is the equivalent is “Steady Move”. Been with Premiere for at least 6 years as well.

Vince

[David Kirlew]

I recently got myself a Mac and had to use Final Cut Pro to edit a recent video. While Premieire Pro and Final Cut Pro are very similar, I love the level of integration Adobe tools have. The only thing that somewhat intrigued me about the Apple event was not Final Cut Studio but Final Cut Server. I could see a use for Final Cut Server for management but I won’t convert to Final Cut just for it. I will continue to stick with Adobe especially since I’ve been playing around with Adobe Premiere Pro on the Mac. I just looked at most of the new things and said the same some of one guys mentioned which is Adobe has had those. It’ll take alot for me to break from using Adobe just over the integration, although the competition is making strides.

David Kirlew

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[Robert Bec]

i never said there was anything wrong with adobe it’s just i have always had problems with the system it ran on i was a huge ppro and encore fan and still am of Encore.
My footage that i would import into premiere was huge and every time i had to wait for the audio to conform which really bothered me and one more thing where i come from sydney PPro is not considered the leader of the pack.Production houses do not use it they use AVID or FCP you could never get a job on ppro unless you cut weddings.

rob.

[David Kirlew]

Rob, I live in Orlando, Florida which does have quite a few Avid and Final Cut Pro shops. I know some migiht disagree, but I believe there is a stigma that PPro is stil a “prosumer” editing system and it is not. Now Apple with Final Cut Pro has done quite a bit marketing the product and somoe have said that Adobe isn’t doing enough to market PPro to a higher end editor because in many respects it is very capable. Probably the biggest lags to PPro is the memory hog problem and the ongoing media management, but in every other aspect I believe Premiere Pro is a great piece of software. I’ve actually been contacted recently concerning two projects, both with quite a bit of visual effects and I am being asked to use Adobe’s suite of tools. I did warn them of some potential pitfalls that could arise and they are willing to test it and see what happens.

David Kirlew

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[Vince Becquiot]

Unfortunately, many of the FCP users criticizing PPro are mostly doing slide shows (not that there is anything wrong with that), but their level of understanding of editing is often limited.

There are also some valid point abouts the weaknesses of Premiere Pro, but when you add After Effects to the picture, many do go away.

I’m exited about anything great that comes on either platform (such as ProRes on Mac) because we don’t want anybody to fall asleep watching the competition trying to catch up.

The CS3 release is minimal for PCs (I guess we could say disappointing), but again, making it fully Vista and Mac compatible, has likely taken away much of the resources available.

Vince

Vince

[David Kirlew]

Not only was Adobe working on making CS3 Vista and Mac/Intel Mac capable but they were also integrating the Macromedia products into the suite which in my mind in addition to after effects makes the suite that much more powerful with Flash. So maybe CS3 doesn’t seem to contain a whole bunch of WOW factor new featues (won’t know everything until it’s released) I still say it’s a substantial release. I 100% agree with you Vince on the competition statement.

David Kirlew

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[Terryd1]

Yes I’m trying PPro CS2 also and I need the HDV preset but I can’t open the HDV folder as there is no + sign next to it. But if you look in the setting folder of PProCS3 on the hard drive there is an HDV folder with the HD codecs in. So I tried copying the files into the DV-Pal folder but when I click on that folder in the program I can’t see them. So I suppose that the files are not registered or something, anyone know how to do it?