Premiere Pro 6 to 5.5 frame grab comparison

[Andy Neil]

Best thing I noticed was that the new interface has fewer buttons….finally. It looks a lot less cluttered. Their project preset window also needed a redesign, so hopefully it’s less cluttered there too.

On another note, do you think Dennis, the Adobe Guy knows John Adobe himself?

Andy

https://www.timesavertutorials.com

[Aindreas Gallagher]

well, you know what they say – they say cinema 4D. unfortunately I spent a couple of years getting decent in max when I was still a pc bod.

http://www.ogallchoir.net
promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics

[Lance Bachelder]

Dennis – how does the latest version of PPro 5.5 or 6 get along with Cineform? The feature I cut in PPro was years ago using the Cineform Prospect add-on for Premiere. It was an okay workflow at best. Would love to cut my next feature using the highest quality Cineform transcodes but Vegas Pro now having all kinds of problems with Cineform. Yes I would use Premiere if it works well with Cineform…

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California

[Dennis Radeke]

Hey Lance,

I honestly don’t know. I haven’t played much with Cineform since it got picked up by GoPro.

Sorry – Dennis

[Dustin Parsons]

[andy lewis] I want a timeline as good as FCP7’s and trimming as good as MC6.

I completely agree. I tried Premiere recently and while there is a lot of stuff to like one of my biggest complaints is how the Timeline works. I, like most editors I know, work by tossing all the footage from a shoot onto the Timeline and cutting it down instead of the traditional 3 point editing method – so for me, editing in the Timeline has to be like butter.

In PP5.5 I found myself having to toggle the track selectors on and off waaaay too often. Instead of using track selectors to determine which clips are affected by a certain action I’d much rather just select the clip[s] I’d like to affect for things like adding an edit, matching a frame, adding markers (which I can’t seem to do in the timeline at all), or jumping from edit to edit. Although, I’m sure a lot of my issues are just from me expecting it to work like FCP7.

I’m really looking forward to what CS6 has to offer.

[Chris Harlan]

[Frank Gothmann] “Just to add my two cents: count me in on the desire to see an Adobe developed DI codec. I have also supplied my general “wish list” to Adobe in the past.”

Me three.

[Richard Cardonna]

Photoshop cs5.5 can do extrusions and i believe 3d text

[Richard Cardonna]

Sorry double post this darn smartphone

[Bernhard G.]

Thank You for the clarification, Dennis.

There is still an alternative to ProRes, DNxHD and Cineform:
No, not GV HQX, but BBC’s Dirac Pro:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/dirac/diracpro.shtml

It is an Open Source (!) codec developed by the BBC
(doesn’t Adobe cooperate with the BBC according to Adobe’s marketing on CS5?),
it’s based on Wavelet like Cineform, and does 10bit 4:2:2.
As I have seen, HW-coding / decoding chips are available.
The only thing that is missing is 12bit 4:4:4 …

This could be an viable option.

Best regards,
Bernhard

[Tapio Haaja]

I really hope Adobe some day releases their own high quality cross platform DI codec. In the meantime I hope they’ve licensed Prores from Apple for CS6 so they can build native support for it and bypass old Quicktime. I think licensing for Mac Premiere shouldn’t be an issue because Avid already introduced native Prores support in MC6 for Mac.

Another thing is I/O performance and stability. At the moment performance and stability with AJA, Blackmagic and Matrox is very poor.

Actually If Adobe introduces DI codec or native Prores support and I/O works as it should I’m ready to jump to Premiere.

Really waiting for CS6.

Best
Tapio Haaja

On-Air Promotion Producer
https://avseikkailuja.blogspot.com/