[Al Levine]

Here’s a workflow idea:

Convert the SWF to .MOV (ProRes is good) in After Effects.

Bring into Premiere to do your Closed Caption file. Instructions here:
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/closed-captioning.html

Export using ProRes or a high quality setting.

Then use Adobe Media Encoder to make your FLV

And Adobe Photoshop to make your Poster Image.

[Al Levine]

I don’t know if there’s going to be anything easy… either way you’ll have to format their notes.
Might as well type in the timecode, IN, type in the OUT and insert.

You could also hire an assistant editor to do the stringout based on their notes, then come in when that’s ready and do the fine cut. That’s usually the workflow with anything I’ve worked on.

In the future Adobe Prelude might be in the stars for you… I haven’t messed around with that too much though…

[Al Levine]

Same where I am.
And agree that FCP X is a solution to a problem I never had.

PPro all the way. We’ve been told that Adobe has more people in Premiere development than any other project at the company — they’re committed to continuing the great workflow Classic FCP set up. And I think we’ll get a lot of really cool features with the version 8 release at NAB.

We’re working on our first few series in Premiere and loving it. They have kinks to work out, and like FCP X the interface can be sluggish at times — but it’s headed in the right direction for sure.

[Al Levine]

Welcome to my hell. Subclips and merged clips are giving us every imaginable problem ever with 7.2.1.
This program would be a PERFECT replacement to FCP 7 if they just squashed this bug and made sub clips and merged clips work correctly.
Ugh.
It’s killing me.
File a bug report with Adobe.

[Al Levine]

You get that under any Mac category page on Apple.com.
Scroll to the bottom: https://www.apple.com/mac/

[Al Levine]

Last I heard Angus was still using FCP 7… Testing Premiere and FCP X, but working on 7. But this was about a year ago…

[Al Levine]

Yup. Same issue.

We had an Adobe rep come out to our office last week and we showed him this bug. It’s been reported… But you should definitely file a bug report just incase.

Also having some sketchy issues with Subclips reimported into a new project. They don’t play in the Source monitor, but when you drag them down to the timeline they work after reconfiguring audio channels.

Seems like merged media and sub clips were sort of overlooked in this last release.

[Al Levine]

What version of Premiere are you running?

Are you using CUDA/Open CL to render? Try changing the render mode for your project to Software Only.

[Al Levine]

CS6 will run fine. Mavericks has some known issues, so most of us are sticking with Mac OS X 10.8.5 right now… but I think Adobe addressed most of the crashes.

[Al Levine]

Just make sure you run all the updates on your Adobe software. Should work fine.

Are you getting a MacPro or an iMac? There is no iMac Pro.