[Dennis Radeke]

clean prefs and trash media cache?

[Dennis Radeke]

Codecs is always a compromise (hence codec – compression/decompression)

If ProResLT is too big and you’d like something a bit more modest, I might suggest MXF OP1a in XDCAM 35 or 50. Honestly, experiment to find out what works best for you.

H.264 is good but can be problematic with editing large projects on older systems since the compression is temporally complex.

HTH,
Dennis

[Dennis Radeke]

You can only have one in and out point referenced within a master clip in the source panel at one time. If you’d like to cut up multiple in/out points you can either right click on the source window and create subclip or take a look at Prelude where you can easily create many virtual subclips from a master clip and send them to Premiere Pro. I’d recommend the latter workflow personally.

[Dennis Radeke]

[Oliver Peters] “There definitely is a plan to make the pieces contribute to the whole. For example, DCP creation in AME benefits Premiere. Master Clip effects in SpeedGrade also gets passed back to Premiere. So you really can’t just look at the new features of one product. Rather, you have to look at the group, because they are intertwined.”

Agree 100%. We do tend to focus on workflows as a whole and less on ‘features’ My point was that if you took ‘features’ vs. ‘features’ in various Adobe applications, Adobe Premiere Pro would probably win in this release. But you bring up an excellent point Oliver – thanks.

[Dennis Radeke]

[Scott Witthaus] “uh, no. 😉

While I heard there was a CC release recently and Premiere just got a few, most were to AE. Is this not true?”

I would have to say that while we strive to put a lot of goodness into every release, if we are to compare feature and workflow improvements, Premiere Pro is the winner here.

While Walter hits it on the head as usual with the link, I’ll just mention a few of the top things for this release that stand out to me.

AE integration – allowing Premiere Pro editors to change text layers of After Effects projects without launching After Effects.
Master Clip FX – adding FX to the entire clip, so that everytime you cut in a subclip from the original media, it contains said FX.
Masking and tracking – You now have the AE mask tracker and basic mask tools on basically every effect inside of Premiere Pro.

Of course there is new format support and lots of little things that add up for me like DCP packaging, AS-11 (Europe DPP standard), media browser favorites, etc. etc.

In the end, the link is the best thing to explore…

Cheers,
Dennis – Adobe guy (on PTO)

[Dennis Radeke]

Touche! 😉

[Bill Davis] “Well Dennis, it isn’t as ironic as it would be if I RENTED out training materials and didn’t let anyone buy them…but I take your point. ; )”

You mean like Lynda.com?

[Dennis Radeke]

[Bill Davis] “I think it’s fair to note that a year of CC suite subscription to fully learn just PPro would be significantly more costly than simply buying X. And to explore the slew of other niche apps in the suite would likely take very significantly longer.

Simple at that.

Know someone who teaches video editing in elementary school, high school or college? Tell them to check out https://www.StartEditingNow.com – video editing curriculum complete with licensed practice content.”

Undoubtedly, it’s just me, but I do note my own sense of irony of the last part of your quote combined with your signature that advertises a paid way to learn editing. 😉

I agree that learning does require a certain investment of time, but I think you set the table to the disadvantage of the user. Ultimately, creativity is FUN and therefore is not a chore and definitely doesn’t take a year to get started. Yes, expertise only comes with practice and hardwork but the journey is half of the fun.

[Bill Davis] “Face it, dive in/dive out use is NOT the goal of CC. Perpetual rental income is.”

Rather, I’d describe it as choice. Yes, dive in/out on a monthly basis and you’ll pay a bit more. We certainly incentivize a user to do a year. Really, that is the way with many things – If you buy the car with XYZ options, I will give you a better discount and so forth…

Perhaps at the end of the day, we’re just expressing….

…my 2 cents,
Dennis – Adobe guy

[Dennis Radeke]

[Bill Davis] “But it’s internal semi round trip link to Photoshop (the return file shows up as a separate tiff alongside the unretouched original) is a good indication that Adobe did not try to make it anywhere near a full fledged photo editor.”

Bill, I think you miss the intention here. Lightroom’s focus is the image itself and how to bring it to life as well as organize it. It’s integration with Photoshop is very deliberate because photoshop has so much more (much of which isn’t related to photo editing). Layers is one giant example. Layer Styles, Text engine, 3D are three more examples.

Lightroom – for Photographers exclusively
Photoshop – for all folks who want to manipulate or create still images

So, if you want to take your image and make a composite or composition out of it, you want to take it to Photoshop and have a separate physical file to work on.

…and just for fun, you can drag and drop images from Lightroom into Premiere Pro, no problem.

Dennis – Adobe guy

[Dennis Radeke]

[Andy Neil] “And Apple isn’t the only company to do the same exact thing. Remember Liquid? Or Soundbooth?”

Well, I think the idea that software does get EOL’d for some reason is completely valid, but the two cases you mentioned each have good reasons and don’t I think make your case particularly well. Liquid was a Pinnacle product (and before that FAST multimedia) that was ultimately bought by Avid where many NLE’s end up and then slowly disappear. If you’re Avid, you focus on MC, plain and simple.

For Adobe’s Soundbooth, it was a reaction to customer usage. The concept of Soundbooth was to make an audio tool for video folks. however, usage of Soundbooth was low and the feedback from users was, ‘give us all of the mixer stuff and the more sophisticated UI’ which of course is what Audition is all about. Therefore, Adobe focused on Audition integration and hasn’t looked back.

Dennis – Adobe guy
…and former Pinnacle employee (Liquid guy)

[Dennis Radeke]

Beyond the linear color, you can try updating your graphics drivers, disabling and GPU acceleration and try the film dissolve to see if it gives you an aesthetic you’re looking for. If turning off the GPU fixes the issue, then definitely report it through the Adobe site.