[Austin Hill]

This is quite true and I’m quite surprised people aren’t up in arms about it more. Than again most people learned their lesson long ago and switched to Final Cut. Anyhow…

I’m using CS4 and a simple example of the poor Premiere rendering is this:

I had a a VERY simple need:

1) insert a title card made in Photoshop at the beginning

2) insert 3 lower thirds later down the timeline

Easy right?

Well, I was to upload this video on YouTube.

The specs are for standard def: 640×480. They recommend one of the formats as Mpeg2. So, this is what I did. Yes, I had progressive set, and there was no squashing etc.

Anyhow, the title card is just atrociously rendered. However…turn that sequence into an After Effects sequence and render it FROM After Effects to Mpeg2 and the graphic is totally clean. However! If you render that AE sequence from Premiere…same problem.

And the problem doesn’t stop there. You say to yourself: Fine I’ll just re-render these parts from After Effects. Guess what? Titles aren’t supported from Premiere into After Effects. They instead turn into screen filling black solids. How useful. Soooo…now I have to re-create the lower thirds in After effects…just for the stupid title card.

I didn’t even mention the stalling that occurs between the two programs. Want to double click the text layer in AE? Well, prepare to wait as all kinds of BS goes on in the CPU background. Oh, super…the hand is a weird twitchy mouse cursor/hand/hour glass aberration while Premiere and After effects “dynamically” communicate.

I for some damned reason have been loyal to Premiere simply because I like the “idea” of seamlessly switching between Premiere and After Effects. What you really end up with is one program (premiere) that completely fails on the graphics front, even their linear wipe sucks while on the other hand (after effects) you end up with a program that completely sucks with audio and basic editing. Want to do a simple fade to white between two clips. Hope you set some time aside…

Anyhow, Adobe, you didn’t just drop the ball…you’ve let roll into a ditch off the side of the road