[Dennis Radeke]

A lot of folks I know have used Annotation Edit to good use. Excellent format support and the developer works hard to have solid support for Premiere Pro

Annotation Edit

[Dennis Radeke]

The only other thing worth trying beyond Peter’s excellent suggestions is to actually back off on the RAM usage for Premiere Pro just a bit. While any 64-bit application benefits from RAM, if you suffocate the OS, it may have an adverse effect. I’ve seen several examples of new MacPro users putting 64GB of RAM into the machine and reserving only 6GB for OS and all other applications. Rule of thumb is 60-70% for Adobe apps, 30-40% for others.

As an experiment, reserve 20 or 21GB of RAM for Premiere Pro, restart and see if that provides any benefits.

Oh, one other question to add to Peter’s list…Do you have a lot of large still images in your project? If so, try resizing them and bringing down the bit-depth (if applicable).

HTH,
Dennis – Adobe guy

[Dennis Radeke]

Ah Yai Yai!

Mitch and Scott – I was not responding in any way from a position of arrogance. I was pointing out two things: First, that there is a product plan offering if you just want Photoshop that is very compelling from a pricing point of view. Second, that Photoshop is the standard image editing platform for several good reasons which we all know.

Nothing more, nothing less. I often say to others that email does not always convey the tone and thus the true intention of the content. I guess this email was one of these.

Cheers,
Dennis – Adobe guy

[Dennis Radeke]

It is worth noting in the discussion that if all you need is image editing, there is a photo plan that includes Photoshop and Lightroom for $9.99 per month as a standard ongoing price.

https://creative.adobe.com/plans

And to paraphrase a saying we’ve all heard and used in the past, “No one ever got fired for using Photoshop.” 😉

It is after all the de facto standard image editor and for good reason.

Cheers,
Dennis – Adobe guy

[Dennis Radeke]

[Oliver Peters] “Premiere/AE have great stabilizers, but sometimes they add their own anomalies. For example, I’ve used the Adobe stabilizer on handheld close-ups of a person. The talent was very smooth, but if you looked at the walls in the background, they picked up some wonky skewing.”

This is usually due to cameras with CMOS sensors. You can also target a portion of the image to stabilize by deleting track points on the effect.

[Dennis Radeke]

[Steve Connor] “Can’t be a big job to make a separate installer for it?”

Actually, it is.

[Dennis Radeke]

[Mark Suszko] “So, you’re saying, Premiere is the dongle if you need to use Encore? Kinda like how it used to be that Premiere was the dongle if you wanted AfterEfects (ducks, runs)”

😉

No, Premiere Pro isn’t the dongle at all. It is just that it didn’t make sense to make a separate installer for Encore (it is built into the Premiere Pro CS6 installer).

As for Premiere Pro being the dongle for After Effects, no I don’t think that was ever the case. Back in the day, we sold a lot of standalone AE licenses to those folks who didn’t care for NLEs at all or weren’t interested in using Premiere Pro. If you wanted the CS suites before Premiere Pro started its rise among NLEs, then you likely purchased it for AE, Photoshop and likely a bit of Illustrator. Encore became very useful as folks exited the DVD market (especially on Mac) and Audition has always had a loyal following.

[Dennis Radeke]

[tony west] “This is a good thread to show how many things Prp has copied from X
A tip of the hat should go to X for that for starters.”

Sure, hat tip. But it cuts both ways and frankly ingenuity comes from all different kinds of manufacturers. At the end of the day, a healthy competitive market is good for users! This forum exemplifies that many of you use multiple NLE’s based on the job or the requirements. For the manufacturers, Apple, Avid, Adobe, etc. all end up winners.

As for Adobe, we’ve had our share of firsts which may or may not matter to you. Some of the big ones off the top of my head are:

– First major NLE to be 64-bit native (extra big if you consider Apple owns the OS)
– First major NLE to utilize CUDA and OpenCL in new powerful ways
– Best of class closed captioning – a legal requirement for broadcasters
– Best of class format support both import and export along with native or DI editing choices

So, everyone’s a winner, though it won’t do anything to stifle the debate! 😉

Dennis – Adobe guy

[Dennis Radeke]

Hi Jarmen,

Sorry you’re having some difficulty. This forum is great for helping people get back to editing as well as sharing ideas.

First thing is it is always great to give a bit more about the system you’re using. CPU, GPU, RAM, OS, etc. are usually important to helping diagnose a problem.

A couple of things you can try:
1 – Trash your preferences and clean your media cache – How to
2 – If it is a particular project that is the problem, you can create a new project and import the old one into it which can often fix a corrupt project
3 – If things just aren’t getting better and you’ve checked simple things like repair permissions via the Apple Disk Utility, you can consider uninstalling and reinstalling Creative Cloud. Step by step instructions are here: https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/cs5-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html

Try at least the first one and then if you still have problems, outline your system specs and a little more detail on when it crashes (what are you doing, is it consistent, etc.)

HTH,
Dennis – Adobe Guy

[Dennis Radeke]

Assuming you have an alpha channel on both clips (you can toggle alpha on/off in CC), then you could take your second clip and overlap it on video track 2 and fiddle with the timing to hopefully get the desired look. Asside from that, you could do a quick transition like a blur to help ease your transition from clip 1 to 2.

HTH