Questions for CS6

[Walter Soyka]

[Dave LaRonde] “Will there be complete and total support for Open GL acceleration when rendering, no exceptions, no ifs ands or buts? My advice to people has alway been, “save yourself a lot of grief and confusion — Turn Open GL off for rendering, and leave it off.” Do I continue to offer that advice?”

You can tuck that stock answer in a drawer. OpenGL can still be used for Fast Previews, but it can no longer be used for output. The confusing and often dangerous OpenGL rendering options will be gone in CS6. (Yay!)

If you use the new Ray-Traced 3D renderer for a comp, it is accelerated by certain NVIDIA GPUs, and the output is the same from the CPU or GPU.

Walter Soyka
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[Dennis Radeke]

[Dave LaRonde] “Will there be complete and total support for Open GL acceleration when rendering, no exceptions, no ifs ands or buts?

My advice to people has alway been, “save yourself a lot of grief and confusion — Turn Open GL off for rendering, and leave it off.” Do I continue to offer that advice?”

With CS6, we’ve tapped into the Optix engine from NVIDIA for 3d Ray tracing and extrusion. We’ve also added some different preview options to allow for flexible workflows.

To your question for always on/off – OpenGL prefs are changed in AE CS6 and I don’t see a way to turn them off…

[Kevin Monahan]

[Michael Aranyshev] “[Dennis Radeke] “This is an Avid feature and again, no – couldn’t get to that one.”

This is FCP Legacy feature too.”

Virtual KEM. Absolutely. We know about that one. I used it all the time on Avid Media Composer and found it useful. Please make a feature request. The more we have for that feature, the more likely it will get added.

https://www.adobe.com/go/wish

Kevin Monahan
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[Kevin Monahan]

[Franz Bieberkopf] “Hi Dennis,

Many questions. Most would probably be answered if I had my hands on a 30 day demo – so I’ll make that the question to answer”

A trial is coming soon, but we can’t say exactly when right now. Stay tuned. Thanks!

Kevin Monahan
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[Kevin Monahan]

[Michael Aranyshev] “How do I select clips to merge without resorting to mouse?
What is a keyboard shortcut for “Merge Clips”?
Will it always add “- Merged” to my clip names?
How can I control what Bin does the merged clip go to?”

You can create a custom keyboard shortcut for Merge Clips in CS5.5 and later.
There is no preference to remove the word “Merged” from your merged clips, so yes.
Your merged clips will go to the same bin as the source footage. Drag it elsewhere if you wish to organize it into another bin.

If you want a more keyboard driven workflow for merge clips, go to:
https://www.adobe.com/go/wish

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[John Davidson]

Everything I’ve seen thus far looks like massive improvements, especially in regards to AE. I can’t tell you how happy I am to no longer complain about lack of extruding. Seriously can’t wait to drop a 3D logo over a bent, flat image behind. Something tells me that we’re going to see lots of that in the future.

Couple of questions:
1. Does Premiere Pro 6 have an option for adjustment layers similar to how they work in AE?
2. Will PPro or AE now allow for multiple open projects simultaneously? Not importing, but actual separate projects open?
3. Can independent audio clips in PPro have their levels adjusted as in FCP without affecting the whole track?
4. Do the 6750M AMD enhancements also apply to iMacs containing that card?

Thanks. Really excited about this release.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[Misha Aranyshev]

Thanks Kevin.

I filed the feature request but it wasn’t about “Merge clips”. It was about copying and pasting back and forth between project and timeline. “Merge Clips” doesn’t belong in the timeline. When you do it in the project tab you have a choice of sync points and the result of the operation depends on this choice. When merging in timeline there is no choice. Link would do the same job just fine. Just let me get linked clips back to the project, to the bin I want them to be.

[Dustin Parsons]

1) Will Premiere Pro 6 have the ability to apply motion blurs to moving objects?

2) Will Premiere Pro 6 be able to keep folder/file hierarchy when importing a folder that has subfolders?

EG. I have a folder for my sound effects called SFX and inside that folder are sub-folders like, Vehicles, People, Animals, etc… and inside those folders are more sub-folders. In Premiere Pro 5.5 if I drag and drop the SFX folder into the Project window the folder hirearchy disappears – the only folder imported is the SFX folder and all sound effects are found in there.

Apparently in PP5.5 the only way around this is to import SFX folder into AE first, and then copy and paste it into Premiere (see this thread).

Thanks!

[Oliver Peters]

Here’s my “first look” article:

https://www.creativeplanetnetwork.com/tags/nab-2012/adobe-creative-suite-6-first-look/59163

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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[David Foster]

Can Encore CS6 can output a BDCMF folder for Blu-ray replication?

David