[Dennis Radeke]

Get the 5200, plain and simple…

Dennis – Adobe guy

[Dennis Radeke]

Just one addition – I kind of assumed you knew that we also honor the track targeting method as well. That can be driven either by the mouse or via keyboard shortcuts that you map.

In general, you’re right that it is a lot of clicks. It is difficult for an NLE to guess on what you want to fade without some kind of input from you.

HTH,
Dennis

[Dennis Radeke]

You can of course multi select all the clips you need and apply a crossfade (shift+cmd+d)

The other thing if you have a number of areas where you want to do this is to create an submix bus (or track) and then route the channels you want to fade to the submix. Then automate the submix bus and the channels will follow.

HTH

[Dennis Radeke]

Probably the guy you want to talk to about Multicam is Herb Sevush.

https://library.creativecow.net/sevush_herb/Multicam-Premiere-Pro/1

[Dennis Radeke]

Simply put, CS3 is not supported by Mavericks. Something must have updated on your system that caused the error. Most likely a OpenCL or CUDA update. Roll back the updates you recently installed and/or uninstall CS3 and see if that cures the problem. If you use CS3 a lot and do not wish to upgrade, then I would lock down your system from updates. Otherwise, I think you will run into this problem again.

Good luck.

[Dennis Radeke]

Michael,

I would be interested in understanding the conditions where you get this. If you want to friend me on Cow, I can give you my email address where we can get this logged into our system.

One question, is there any reason you’re on 10.9.2 specifically and not 10.9.5?

Dennis – Adobe guy

[Dennis Radeke]

Perhaps this might be cool in the future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi2lYi8qil4

[Dennis Radeke]

Are you talking about the little green hue on the top of the man’s head?

By no means am I an expert, but you might be able to correct for his slightly green hue on the edges of his head by a few things (assuming that is what you are referring to):

You might be able to clean the basic key a bit by going to the alpha mode and tightening up your whites and blacks, but I never use the alpha view as the deciding factor. If you make a true alpha image (B&W) and then go back to your composite image, it usually looks terrible. Still, I find that it can help guide me.

If you go to spill suppression, crank up the spill to 100, then carefully tweak the range a little to the right or left, you might find that this helps clean up the color spill. Then you usually back off the spill amount. Finally, you can use the hue control on the color correction group to slightly tweak your final output to look more natural.

HTH.

[Dennis Radeke]

Noam,

As others have said, you should check out all three (or more) and put several hours into each one to make the best decision for you. You should also go to each of the products forums on the Cow and ask the same questions to get the positive perspective for each product. Doing otherwise is like going to the Clinton or Bush family homes and asking who should be the next President. 😉

As to Oliver’s perceived question on Premiere for long form I reply with Fincher’s “Gone Girl.” If you’re doing a long form project, the system needs to be adequate. Adobe routinely tests 10-20k clip projects, 24hour timeline, etc. etc. as a standard part of its project, so there are no questions on that front.

If this project is a labor of love and you don’t derive income from editing, then some folks have a fair point that a subscription of software may not be as straight forward a proposition for you.

As for ease of transitions, I agree with Shane – all of them will take some adjustment from Legacy to anything else, but Premiere Pro is going to be the most straight forward.

Again, go to the respective forums to get the right perspective on each product, but I will say (as an Adobe employee) that Premiere Pro has demonstrated the most innovation in terms of features and workflow over the last several years. Just look at each releases successive feature notes and the length of the list. I use Wikipedia for a good list on Premiere Pro. Premiere’s list is simply much longer – the question is do these features/workflows matter to you or not? To me, that comes back to the central question of which NLE is the MOST right for you.

Good luck with your decision – it should be a fun one whichever way you go!

Cut hard,
Dennis – Adobe guy

[Dennis Radeke]

There could be a lot of factors related so lets get down to it.

Here’s the first round of things to try
1 – Make sure you’re on the latest version (8.2)
2 – Clean your media cache
3 – Trash your Premiere Pro preferences
4 – Do a computer restart
Second round
1 – Run your computer’s diagnostic software and make sure everything okay there
2 – If you have the one project that is problematic, create a new, blank project and then import the sequence or entire project into it. Does it help? If no, there might be some corrupt media in the project
3 – Are you using 3rd party I/O? If so, do you have hte latest drivers? Do the problems go away if you turn off the 3rd party i/o hardware?
Third round
1 – this will usually address anything within Adobe’s control – CC Cleaner Tool Follow these instructions exactly – don’t take shortcuts

Beyond that, I would post your system specs (CPU, RAM, GPU, HDD Setup, OS version, Adobe version, summary of the problem, etc.) and allow other Cow users to chime in or contact Adobe support. Hopefully, the above will put you on the right path.

Dennis – Adobe guy