Questions for CS6

[Tapio Haaja]

Premiere Pro CS6 really seems the way to go if it works like advertised! Only thing I’m missing is Adobe’s own cross platform DI codec. Maybe in CS7 🙂

Our facility works on top of Apple’s XSAN so my question is have you tested Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 with XSAN and are there some known issues?

Best
Tapio Haaja

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

[Dennis Radeke]

[Tapio Haaja] “Our facility works on top of Apple’s XSAN so my question is have you tested Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 with XSAN and are there some known issues?”

As a general rule, as long as the storage is providing consistent throughput, it should work just fine. I haven’t played with it, so there could be some issues. The devil is always in the details with any storage SAN/NAS system.

More importantly, we’re working closely with Active Storage who are many of those Apple employees and we’re working together to certify a workflow.

[Dennis Radeke]

[Christopher Travis] ” I see that CS6 will have broader support for Radeon GPUs, but the blurb only mentions the models that come with the Macbook Pro. We have 3 Mac Pros with Radeon 5770s in them. Will CS6 be able to utilise these?”

The ways that users worked around limited NVIDIA GPU lists should also work for ATI. I’m sure other people (non-Adobe employees!) can turn you on to the trick. That said….

We go out of our way to certify compatibility with certain cards but we also acknowledge we can’t stay in front of the GPU manufacturers with new cards popping up all of the time. So, we pick a few of the most important ones and work on those. We stand behind those chosen cards.

[Dennis Radeke]

[Michael Gissing] “Denis, has machine controlled been worked on. Walter Biscardi reported playing out to tape with machine control felt slugish in CS5.5.

I am interested in an integrated finishing system with grading but I must have timecode accurate playout to HDCam. I note that Tangent Wave is supported. Please let me know when video tutorials on Speedgrade are available.”

Tape control has been in the hands of our third party manufacturers for some time (CS5). Since RS422 control requires hardware, we made the decision to give that work to companies like AJA, Blackmagic and Matrox some time ago.

We understand the importance of deck control both capture and export and we are working VERY closely with our hardware vendors to ensure that we have reliable solutions for our users.

With CS6 we have made the first step on making monitoring completely seemless. For example, you won’t see an AJA folder in Premiere Pro any longer unless they have specific codecs or things outside of Adobe codec/sequences. This means that your RED sequence should just play out of Premiere Pro + AJA (or BMD or Matrox, etc.) without thinking about it. Longer term, we would like to extend that transparency to other aspects like capture and export. Of course, that’s the future and obviously, things change.

Bottom line – it depends on your hardware i/o partner and their commitment to deck control.

re: Walter – We of course respect Walter’s opinion and input and we have worked with him during the CS6 cycle and hope to continue that. Each user has different needs and wants. For Walter at this time, deck control are higher up than we were able to deliver this go around. We view this feature as a priority.

Lastly, Tangent Wave I think is supported by SpeedGrade, not Premiere Pro. I can double check on this.

[Dennis Radeke]

Guess, I should have known what I was getting myself into here huh? 😉

[Steve Connor]

[Dennis Radeke] “Guess, I should have known what I was getting myself into here huh? ;-)”

I did think it was a brave move to start with!

Steve Connor
“FCPX Professional”
Adrenalin Television

[Michael Gissing]

Thanks Denis. I have a Kona3. Walters comments were comparing the same Kona card with CS5.5 and AVID with the same hardware. btw, really impressed that all in the CS6 suite outputs via the Kona including bluray playback. Nice bonus for those of us who rely totally on calibrated monitoring. Big tick.

I only expect Tangent & Speedgrade integration, not with grade tools in PP

[Michael Hancock]

Does Premiere have Auto Patching in the timeline now? Example: If I have source V1 patched to Record V1, uncheck Record V1 and check Record V3 does V1 automatically patch to V3? If not, has anything changed in how Premiere patched video/audio tracks?

Can you use the keyboard to move selected clips to a higher or lower track?

Can you export using In/Out, rather than workbar (I saw you can hide the workbar, and that’s nice).

Can you load a sequence into your source monitor and cut it into the timeline without it nesting – I’d prefer to have access to all video/audio tracks in the loaded sequence to repatch to the timeline.

If I load a clip with 4 mono tracks in my source monitor but have all stereo tracks in my timeline, does Premiere show me that I have 4 mono tracks on the source side? Right now it doesn’t show those tracks available for patching if I don’t the proper audio tracks available for the clip.

Thanks for answering all of our questions, too. The new release looks great so far – trimming is a huge step forward. Well done there.

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Michael Hancock
Editor

[Michael Gissing]

[Dennis Radeke] “Guess, I should have known what I was getting myself into here huh? ;-)”

Well you are getting yourself in the good books so bravo. In the past I have criticised your involvement in the Final Cut forum but this forum is precisely for vendors to show they give a f**k and for us to all throw opinions and critiques about. I think Adobe is wooing and your hard work is not going unnoticed.

[Dennis Radeke]

[Michael Aranyshev] “Dual system. Non-matching timecode. Clapper slate.”

For a dual system sound link up, we have a ‘merge clips’ feature that allows you to link separate video and audio together as a clip instance in the project panel. We introduced that in CS5.5

This link might help you understand if this is the right answer to your question.