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Premiere Pro CS 6 and AVCHD – Should I upgrade now or wait?
Hi All
I currently use Premiere Pro 5.5.2 on a Mac Pro and OS 10.7.3. Most of my footage now is AVCHD, from various camcorders, including Sony FS100 as well as several Panasonic and Canon at 24P, 30P and 60P at 17mb/s to 28mp/s bitrates and LPCM and AVCHD audio. I also do use XDCAM EX and Canon DSLR H.264 footage.
I’m really wanting to upgrade to CS6, it looks fantastic, however I have heard reports of various bugs that make it work less efficiently or not at all with AVCHD footage. Maybe the latest upgrades fix these issues, but I’d like to get some input from people who have actually used CS6 with Mac OS 10.7 and AVCHD files. I don’t want to transcode first, this was my primary reason to switch from FCP to Premiere Pro a couple of years ago, don’t want to go back!
Thanks much for any and all advice you can give me.
-Keith
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6 Replies
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CS6 is a huge improvement. Just get it. You won’t regret it.
If there are bugs, updates will come.Chris Tompkins
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Hi Keith,
I would definitely wait if I were you, or at least give the 30 day trial a shot first. A lot of people, myself included, are having problems with XDCAM EX footage and some other formats in CS6 (that play fine in SC 5.5.2). If you do a little searching you’ll see a few threads on this elsewhere.
Cheers,
Gerry
http://www.digitalkilnstudios.com
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I’ve found zero problems with Ex material on Windows machines.
David
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No problems on my dual-core laptop nor on my Q6600 desktop. Win7, EX1 and EX3 footage.
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Big tearing problems with a Quad 9450 and CPU and Geforce 560 Ti
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Using CS6 I’ve had no problems on a Mac Pro 2010 Hexacore 3.33 GHz with GTX 285 playing back XDCam EX, Nikon D7000 H264, Canon H264, and ProRes HQ QT mov’s. Nikon wouldn’t play at all on 5.5.x, works fine on CS6. If you are concerned, download the trial. Doesn’t come with ProRes unless you have FCP or Motion 5. ProRes may also come with latest Compressor, but sounds like you are mostly concerned with long GOP formats.
Jim Wiseman
Sony PMW-EX1,Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 2.1, Premiere Pro 5.5 and 6.0, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Avid MC, Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz 24Gb RAM GTX-285 120GB SSD, Macbook Pro 17″ 2011 2.2 Ghz Quadcore i7 8Gb SSD, G5 Quadcore PCIe
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