Why SHOULDN’T I switch to Premiere Pro?

[Lance Bachelder]

Sounds like you’ve already answered your own original post. Obviously Adobe is available now and Smoke won’t be here for months. I would think a year from now, with an affordable high-end product like Smoke, the trained freelancer pool will start to change and we’ll all see if there are real advantages over other workflows…

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California

[Daniel Frome]

From what you describe, Premiere Pro already has you covered. It’s weaknesses are:
1) instability on larger projects (20+ hours of footage), especially if you load up on cpu heavy codecs like DSLRs, etc
2) poor trim tools, making fine adjustments annoying and more time consuming

Both of those issues have apparently been solved in CS6, but you could easily operate on 5.5 from what you describe. The beautiful AE round tripping is what’s going to save you the most time though.

[David Cherniack]

[Daniel Frome] “From what you describe, Premiere Pro already has you covered. It’s weaknesses are:
1) instability on larger projects (20+ hours of footage), especially if you load up on cpu heavy codecs like DSLRs, etc”

Hey Daniel, I regularly work on large projects – 200 plus hours including lots of DSLR and 5k still sequences. Even in CS5.5 the software is extremely stable.

David
AllinOneFilms.com

[Daniel Frome]

I’m glad you’ve had that experience. I haven’t been so lucky.

[Michael Gissing]

Is there any stability differences between the Mac & WIN versions. If people are having issues or not can they indicate which OS & hardware they are using please.

[David Cherniack]

My Mac friends don’t have stability issues with 5.5.

If there’s hardware at play that’s problematic it’s usually caused by third party drivers. AJA and Matrox seem to have had problems with their drivers for 5.5 on the Mac. Thtat’s now changing with Premiere Pro 6.0’s Transmit architecture where display monitoring is handled through SDK calls. Also, on the Mac, not having a CUDA card affects performance and may affect stability as well. I really don’t know for sure. But 6.0’s OpenCL support should make the performance issues on the Mac go away.

David
AllinOneFilms.com

[Daniel Frome]

I’ve had great performance and stability on small and mid range project. I’ve had bad stability on large DSLR projects.

If history follows, the mac version is probably a tad more unstable.