Video Transition Effects missing

[Jon Barrie]

Silly move guys. Should’ve stayed with the PC. cs4 will be 64-bit, only on PC. Why are so many people jumping on the Mac band wagon? Now they all run on Intel Chips there technically PCs.
PPro only just came back to the Mac and it is an inferior version of the PC one. There are very limited effects and transitions on the Mac version. Match Color is one that I use plenty with Multicam work, Mac don’t have it. Or the transition you’re wanting to use from a PC based project. Sorry.
– Jon 😉

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[Nicholas Shera]

LOL, I think I can cope with a few missing transition effects in the short term, if indeed they are actually missing at all. In the long-term, I’m sure it’s easy to get the necessary plug-ins.

The reason I’m one of “so many people jumping on the Mac bandwagon” is because I’ve had an absolute gutful of PCs and all the problems that go along with it — I’m talking REAL problems, not a missing effect here or there. I used to edit with Premiere Pro on a PC, and the problems I’d have with any large project was unacceptable. I’ve had my double quad-core Mac Pro since February this year, and I have not regretted a SINGLE thing about that in all that time — editing, for the most part, is MUCH smoother than on the PC, and doing special effects work with Adobe After Effects is ten times faster since it can utilise all 10 GB of the RAM that I have, assisted by the 8 cores.

Apart from editing, everything else has been much smoother than on the PC. Internet browsing is way faster and I don’t have to worry about spyware, viruses, malware etc. Have you ever tried working with a Mac for any length of time? I seriously doubt it. The fact that you believe the Mac to be basically a PC shows your ignorance of the matter. Nothing could be further from the truth, since it’s the operating system that is one of the MAIN aspects of a computer. Mac OS X is really quite different from Windows XP or Vista.

Overall, anything which the PC might have that the Mac lacks is FAR OUTWEIGHED by the irritations and annoyances of the PC that the Mac DOES NOT have. I’m not saying Mac is perfect (it isn’t), but it seems, from my experience at least, to be closer to perfect than a PC will ever be. And I really couldn’t care less about 64-bit capabilities at this stage. Even if 64-bit support doesn’t come to Mac until CS5 (which it well may), that’s not so long a time to affect MOST Mac users. If it gets that desperate, there’s always Final Cut Pro, which is written by Apple and is actually superior to Premiere in any case.

Anyway, I didn’t ask for people to give their “I told you so” opinions — I was asking for some ADVICE, which you seem incapable of doing. Suggesting that someone ought to go and buy a PC is NOT what I consider reasonable advice.

[Jon Barrie]

Hey Nicholas,
Thanks for your reply. I’m just stirring. I own and use Mac for FCP work all the time and cross platform PProCS3/AE work. I actually teach all the programs too. It’s great to get responses like your’s because people too often think a Mac is a better option because they want an iPhone.

I’ve been working as an Editor for 8 years or so now and have found both systems to be frustrating for different reasons…
Oh, I forgot to give advice… Mac version of PProCS3 has many missing effects – don’t know why? It just does. Very frustrating working on a PC taking to Mac for further work. (They work when you open in PC again?…Ask Adobe? I’ve tried).

I have heard many a PC horror story, but PC edit suites should be “Edit Suites”. They don’t crash if they are built properly – using approved Hardware (HP or DELL systems) and Dedicated RT Hardware. An edit suite shouldn’t be used to surf the net – only to get updates and register software…

I found working in HD that the Mac version of After Effects crashes a lot. PC version doesn’t seem to have same issue. And why make a codec that keeps the mac a closed system (ProRes). Extremely frustrating not having a PC version of the codec. This closed market attitude is workflow stunting, trying to force production companies to have a Mac system.

I know OS types are very different making the operations and memory uses of the computers very different beasts. I and many other editors would love to see a single OS and a single Disk Format (FAT32 is only one Mac and PC can use together, but that is so limited and crashes on multi-format external drives on Mac’s now).

I foresee the Mac becoming a brand, as with it’s iPod, iPhone etc and all computers becoming a single OS Gelling OSX simplicity or Windows complexity which users can set and switch when they bootup and forget about until they want to use it the other way.

To get back to my point, which i totally got off – too much coffee i think. If anyone wants a rich Adobe Experience the future which is 64-bit (utilizing ridiculous amounts of memory) is coming only on the PC. Mac have recently announced they want all developers to build future software with yet another coding format. Adobe and others need to completely rewrite all the codes for their future version of all Apps on the Mac.

Steve Jobs has made Apple the mega-must have technology it is, but his focus is branding and the entertainment products market.

All I’m trying to say is that I believe the web with all the Adobe Products is the future of Production is being forced to run half baked experiences on the Mac platform because Apple are so frustrating to work with.

Sorry, I got on a rant… Jon 😛

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[Nicholas Shera]

Thanks for the info, Jon. Are you sure that no 64-bit CS products will be made for Mac at all? I just read an April 2008 blog from some Adobe guy saying that while CS4 won’t be 64-bit for Mac, that CS5 probably would be. Perhaps that announcement from Apple came after this blog, in which case maybe CS6 is more likely!

As for HD — that’s one thing I’ve not yet got into. I’d love to work with HD, but I’ve read a lot of horror stories about it, and am waiting for better compatibility between cameras, software and hardware before I go down that path.

[Valter Mac]

76 Video Transitions are included in Windows version of Premiere CS4.
Only 20 of these are available in Mac version, which is shocking.

21 Video Filter is also missing in Mac version.