[Dennis Radeke]

[Scott Witthaus] “Sounds like you are calling us ‘dinosaurs’! :-)”

Certainly not! My mistake – perhaps I didn’t guzzle enough coffee when I typed it up this morning.

I was speaking of the market in general and not Adobe specifically. I would never for a moment imply that anyone using products other than Adobe would be less than awesome.

Dennis – Adobe Guy

[Dennis Radeke]

[Steve Connor] ”
Bet you never imagined that Aindreas would be an advocate!

Just like to add my praise too, it’s development pace has been stunning and I really enjoy using it now.”

Well, thank you Steve as well. We’re not perfect, but I think Adobe is clear about that and our communication with customers as users is key to our advancement and your satisfaction.

As for Aindreas or others becoming advocates, I think anyone that looks at the situation with an open mind can see the value. That there are some folks that refuse to embrace/adapt/grow/evolve (choose your adjective) to changes in the market is certainly their prerogative.

Dennis – Adobe guy

[Dennis Radeke]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “you really should see Premiere lately. Adobe have laid murderous ground.”

Thank you as always Aindreas.

Jim, I wish you all success on whatever software you land.

[Dennis Radeke]

Thank you Oliver from preventing me from making a snarky response, while on vacation no less!

Everyone here has their biases, and that’s honestly some of the particular flavor that makes this forum so interesting. In fairness and candor, I put mine clearly in my signature. Others might consider something similar.

Dennis – Adobe guy

[Dennis Radeke]

[andy lewis] “Does anyone have a comparison (even anecdotal) about FCPX and PPro in terms of playback and UI responsiveness these days?”

Every editor has certain points that matter to him or her more than other bits. At the end, it is the summation of the tools and how it feels to you that probably go a long way to you choosing one over the other…

I personally agree that the perceived responsiveness is important to a large section of editors. It is something that I hear a lot from my large media clients in NYC and on the East Coast. It is something that Adobe has put a lot of time into and we want to continue to focus on for the future. For Adobe that has meant, performance with 3rd party hardware, JKL and mouse scrubbing as well as lag time with space bar play/pause.

That said, there are a huge number of factors that go into the net result, so it is difficult to quantify. Some will say it’s awesome, some less so.

Also, on the original post, let me say that it seems (though I haven’t looked closely) that the testing methodology, source footage, details of effects, render output settings and probably a few more things should I think about it weren’t carefully set out. Always important if you’re trying to compare ‘apples to apples’ – it makes or breaks a lot of the validity of the tests themselves.

Nevertheless, full thanks to Max for taking the time to talk about Macs and how they relate to overall render time performance. I think that the output times are impressive and undoubtedly all vendors aspire to make their outputs as fast and high quality as possible. Certainly, Adobe will continue to work towards that goal.

Dennis – Adobe guy

[Dennis Radeke]

There are probably a number of ways to do it.

One would be to take an effect like the Crop filter and do the following…

1 – draw your shape with the pen tool
2 – select the ‘inverted’ button
3 – take the left control of the crop filter up to 100%

Hope this helps,
Dennis – Adobe guy (on vacation)

[Dennis Radeke]

Yosemite belongs in California, not in Cupertino.

[Dennis Radeke]

I’m thinking a 3rd party effect, though you could fiddle with the Echo effect in Premiere Pro.

[Dennis Radeke]

Hi Tommy,

Congrats on the nice MacBook. Simply put, 4k files are big and encoding to YouTube 4k involves a lot of CPU cycles since it is A) a large frame and B) H.264.

I can’t say for sure, but I don’t think that turning off the GPU is going to make a material difference in this case and might slow down the encode. It can’t hurt to try though – based on the kind of edit and source material you are using.

HTH,
Dennis – Adobe guy

[Dennis Radeke]

Because Premiere Pro is resolution independent, sequence settings are really not something that I focus on. Generally speaking, for 1080 and below, I recommend a sequence setting of whatever flavor you think you are using most.

However, when you get to large frame size (4k and above), then picking the sequence setting needs to be for that camera.

If most of your cameras are 1080 and one or more is 4k, then the question becomes, “what are your output deliverables?” If the output is supposed to be 1080 or something on the web, then I would create a 1080 sequence and have all of your 4k footage ‘set’ or ‘scale’ to frame size in the 1080 timeline. If your output is larger than 1080 then, see how your 1080 scales up and if can look good enough (iffy).

Hope that helps,
Dennis – Adobe guy