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Premiere Pro CC impressions
If you liked FCP 7…you will love Premiere Pro CC — everything that didn’t work quite right in CS6 is fixed in this release. Yes FCP X users, please hold off on the flames…this isn’t a slam on that program (we use it for it’s terrific multicam when that comes up)……but this is the OR NOT part of this forum and for people still looking for a replacement NLE — if you are comfortable in FCP 7..you’ll be right at home in PP CC
The good
Titles, no trans-coding anything….all of the functionality you liked in FCP is there – paste attributes…a useable keyframeable audio mixer…tracks you can layout as you please…..dynamic linking to After Effects, Photoshop, Audition….you can even use all the keyboard shortcuts you know in FCP (there’s a set you can select) If you’re coming from AVID — you can select those keyboard shortcuts instead. Superior motion keyframe control…adjustment layers…..if you know FCP 7…you can be up to speed with PP CC in less than an hour.
Yes, there are scores of people ticked off about the subscription model – i’d prefer perpetual license…but the cost per month is miniscule compared to the time saved and money made from this program. Adobe hit a home run with this.
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Meh
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and the first thoughtful reply arrives
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
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[Andy Field] “If you liked FCP 7…you will love Premiere Pro CC — everything that didn’t work quite right in CS6 is fixed in this release. Yes FCP X users, please hold off on the flames…this isn’t a slam on that program (we use it for it’s terrific multicam when that comes up)”
For someone who cuts multicam all the time this, more than the hated subscription, is the deal breaker. It’s amazing how Adobe can be blind to certain things – it took them almost 8 years to get stereo vs mono audio done correctly and they still can’t seem to figure out multicam, even though proper models abound (Avid, FCP7, FCPX). As much as I would like to use PPro for so many reasons, Adobe keeps finding ways to shut me out.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf -
Andy,
I think you forgot to post the second part of your impressions:
The bad
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– Ronny
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Hey, look. Chuck has spoken. Its time to move on.
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Yes it is true it has nice features, and we use it. But it is very buggy, and the 3way color corrector is almost useless.
– No Parking Production –
2 x Finalcut Studio3, 2 x Prod. bundle CS6, 2 x MacPro, 2 x ioHD, Ethernet File Server w. X-Raid…. and FCPX on trial
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[Andy Field] “Adobe hit a home run with this.
“For me, yeah. I like it. I don’t do multicam often, and the subscription doesn’t bother me terribly. I did find that, with the particular blend of speed changes and gfx I was using on my last project, I was crashing a lot. Recover was swift, and I seldom lost anything.
I do enjoy working with it. Its got the flexibility that FCP7 had in terms of arranging bins and multiple time lines, and the pliancy of interface, once you get used to it, is very impressive. I think Avid is still, marginally, a better cutter, though I haven’t completely plumbed this version of Pr, so I can’t say for sure.
Right now, I’m working Pr, MC, and FCP7, though I’m very close to letting FCP7 go for my own uses.
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[Morten Ranmar] “But it is very buggy”
I’m experiencing this, as well.
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As for crashing, we’ve experienced very few if any – and they are always related to an add on plug in…..
and have you tried their new multicam in this version? It is much improved and I think will sync on sound
the Bad?
a few minor things — one I’d like them to fix is being able to cut and paste transitions…this doesn’t seem possible now
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852 -
Working native is fine in some instances, and I love it for that. But transcoding to good, solid, workable codecs is a necessity in many cases. ProRes is far easier to edit than AVCHD, even with CUDA and RAM.
BAD: Media Management still needs a lot of work. But that’s a drawback to working native…tracking media. And doing things like managing a sequence to only reference the footage used in the cut…PPro can’t do that. And built in color correction isn’t there yet either, I still rely on Colorista 2…which is great. Speedgrade…can’t monitor out via AJA or BMD yet, so it’s useless.
I love a lot about this version…And would totally use it given the chance to use anything I want on a project (currently working on client systems…Avid)…except the subscription ONLY model stops me dead in my tracks. I’ll never support that model. GREAT app, horrid distribution method. Good thing is that I have other options…
But I do like the PPRO CC 7.0.1 a lot. Dammit.
Shane
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