[Dennis Radeke]

Steve,

Sorry to hear that you’re having difficulty. When you uninstalled, did you use the Adobe Cleaner tool before you reinstalled everything? Also, while you installed the initial 7.0.0, you could simply update it back to 7.2.2 as well.

Here’s the link to see what I’m talking about: https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/cs5-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html

Dennis – Adobe guy

[Dennis Radeke]

I would say that an NLE is a DAW in its function: that is it can do many of the functions of a digital audio workstation. The counterpoint is that an NLE is not a DAW in its focus. An NLE’s focus is video whereas a DAW is audio.

Dennis – Adobe guy

[Dennis Radeke]

[Franz Bieberkopf] “I’m not warm to Adobe’s distinction (or implementation in two panels) if that is what you mean.”

I’m not sure what else you would have us do. Premiere Pro’s track based mixer was designed by an engineer who also happens to be a musician and as a result is a tracks-based (ala ProTools or audio DAW) mixer. When lots of FCP7 type users and Avid users cried out for an audio mixer they were used to, we delivered the Clip Mixer. Choice is good and understanding how the two are different gives the user more ability.

Not sure what you would have had us do to make customers from both schools of thought happy?

[Dennis Radeke]

Yes, I would agree with Shravan. Especially since all of your footage is 720 frame size. However, if you need to transcode (for whatever reason), I would probably go for a either XDCAM in MXF (moderate temporal codec that allows decent scrubbing on a moderate CPU) or a full intra-frame codec like ProRes (Mac only) or DNx (Mac or PC). Remember to use Adobe Media Encoder, create a watch folder and then drag your media there to automate the transcode.

But to reiterate – unless you have a compelling reason why you need to transcode, then I would avoid it.

Dennis – Adobe guy

[Dennis Radeke]

[Steve Connor] “When’s the next PPro update coming Dennis?”

Answering that question is like volunteering to be fired. I kinda like my job…

Dennis

[Dennis Radeke]

[alban egger] ” In competition with Adobe they don’t need to hurry to bring features, since Adobe tries to catch up with FCPX and not the other way round.”

In all fairness, I think all NLEs bring something different and bring something new to the table. Any trivial look into the programs will reveal that.

That’s about as vanilla, generic and ‘politically correct’ an answer as I can give! 😉

Dennis – Adobe guy

[Dennis Radeke]

[Mark Nadin] “Even cleaned every trace of Adobe when re-installing the product, and again no change in rendering speed.”

This is what I’m talking about when doing a reinstall: Adobe Cleaner Tool

[Mark Nadin] “All I did was installing a 3rd HDD and a PCI-Express network adapter. Tomorrow, I’ll unplug that HDD and the network adapter and see it works. If it is fixed, could it be my 700watt Corsair PSU? I’ve always thought that HDDs and PCI express use relatively very low watt.”

Good plan. I don’t think this would cause the problem but if it was working before this went in, then it’s a good idea to try and get back to a point where you were and move forward from there. If you’re windows back up and restore, you can also consider moving back to a point in time where you didn’t have these problems. That would be the last resort though. Try the above two things and hopefully it helps.

[Dennis Radeke]

[Chris Borjis] “what about HD sequences for broadcast Dennis, surely those should be 708?”

Yes, that’s true – 708 is for HD. What most broadcasters do is take their 608 captions and embded them in 708. For Premiere Pro, you use either 608 or 708 captions and if 608, you can export them as a 708 caption file or embedded.

[Chris Borjis] “And can you say if the next version of CC will support export of embedded captions
in mpeg transport streams? (what extreme reach requires)”

I simply cannot say. Sorry. As for embedded captions today, we support QT and certain MXF flavors.

[Dennis Radeke]

GTX is terrific power for hardly any money.
Quadro is Ferrari of high-end and a cost that goes with it
Titan is not tested by me but promises much.

Like I said, any of these would be good in my book. Ultimately, if you go with 680 (i have one) it’s a beast for the money. If you want to buy into longevity and precision engineering with graceful failure (which it won’t do) the Quadro is an excellent card. I don’t know the TItan so can’t comment.

Cheers,
Dennis

[Dennis Radeke]

I hit this topic often and I will often repeat that the key to building a good system for Adobe Premiere Pro is BALANCE!

IDEALLY, you should have 4GB of RAM for every physical core on your CPU. Meaning if you have an 8 core cpu (16 with HT), you should have 32GB of RAM (8 * 4).

Windows doesn’t give you the speed up bonuses of an SSD drive like a Mac does, but I’d still put on one on there. Also, get a second SSD drive (small and cheap) as a cache drive for Premiere Pro. That will speed things up.

As for the GPU, they’re all very, very good choices.

Hope this helps,
Dennis – Adobe guy