Received my copy of CS5.5 in the mail today.

[Jim Glickert]

Beat you. Got mine a week ago. I wish Apple had given us what we wanted, but they thought they knew better. I’m hoping Adobe learns from Apple’s mistake. Apple apparently didn’t.

[Jerry Hofmann]

LOL!!!! The $299 investment in FCP X still made that suite a deal… Go FCP X. You just saved Mark more than the cost of a new license for FCS 3… LOL.. this is too funny. Good for you Mark.

As far as I can see, the cost of Avid + FCS 3 + Adobe Suite + FCP X should still be within the means of most working all the time professionals, right? You can have all three for 3.5k or so??? LOL… what a moment in NLE history… You’ll not see this again any time soon… or, is this the new pricing model for all this software from these three great companies?

Jerry

[Bret Williams]

Maybe it’s just me, but I’m kinda floored that anyone charging for their services didn’t already have the Adobe Production Premium bundle. As a professional I don’t know how to get by without Illustrator and Photoshop and After Effects. Maybe some people don’t need one of these apps, but by the time you need two you should just buy the bundle. I just assumed we all had Premiere by default sitting around in our bundles.

[Mark Morache]

Well excuuuuuuse meeeeee.

Are you saying I’m not worth my money?

[Bret Williams] “I’m kinda floored”

Get yourself off the floor.

I’ve been living without Illustrator and After Effects, but never without Photoshop. I have a very old copy so I love being up to date.

And I know that Motion is not After Effects, but I haven’t come close to exhausting what I can do with it.

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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.

Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
https://fcpx.wordpress.com

[Dennis Radeke]

[Mark Morache] “Thank you Adobe.”

You’re welcome. 😉 Check out a lot of the tutorials that are on Adobe TV and elsewhere to get up to speed on whatever apps you intend to embrace.

[Mark Morache] “Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX”

Please add Adobe. I mean if you have Xpri there, you gotta add us. I remember the Xpri well (smile)…

[Herb Sevush]

Dennis –

If Adobe wants to be taken seriously they need to take their multi-cam option seriously – a 4 camera limit is not serious.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[Martti Ekstrand]

Now Dennis, if you guys could take a look at your international pricing. The CS5.5 Production Suite costs $1699 plus VAT in your US online store. On your swedish store the exactly same version downloaded from the same server costs $2993 plus swedish VAT!

Why? What’s the reason for charging nearly twice the price? I would understand it if the application suite was fully translated to swedish*, came with swedish printed manuals in a physical box to my doorstep with a red ribbon around it but when downloaded from the same server it’s a bit incomprehensible.

cheers

*Neither PPro nor AE even exists in swedish versions.

[Jamie Franklin]

Is there an option somewhere in PPro, like FC where I can drag a clip from the bin into the timeline and it asks if I’d like to auto-conform the sequence to the clip settings? Or is this all still a manual process…?

[Robert Brown]

In the project window you can drag a clip over a new sequence button at the bottom of the project window and it will create a sequence based on the clips settings. Just like After Effects.

Robert Brown
Editor/VFX/Colorist – FCP, Smoke, Quantel Pablo, After Effects, 3DS MAX, Premiere Pro

https://vimeo.com/user3987510/videos

[Dennis Radeke]

True and we acknowledge this. Like any software developer, we’re always choosing which of the hundreds or thousands of features are most important to the widest range of users. When we first did multi-cam, we knew that providing 4 cameras would address ~95% of the people who needed to use multi-cam. However, for game shows, concerts and other events, 4 is simply not enough.

We have identified improving our multi-camera editing experience as one of the more important features.

That said, I do think that there are a couple of nice things about Premiere Pro’s multi-cam as compared to FCP 7. First, is the idea that you can mix multiple cameras types. For example, P2 and XDCAM. The other nifty feature that I think is useful is that anything can be considered a camera including a sequence. In theory that does help expand the possibilities of the multi-camera environment in Premiere Pro.

All of the above aside, we know that improving multi-cam is important for our users. And as you can tell from my coy response, that is all I’m prepared to say on it. 😉

Dennis – Adobe guy