[Dennis Radeke]

If you have a decent system (64-bit, RAM, etc…) and can edit your project in 30 days, why not download the Production Premium trial and give it a go? There’s no watermarking or anything else – fully functioning.

[Dennis Radeke]

I’d try this as a starter

https://blogs.adobe.com/genesisproject/2011/02/premiere-pro-cs5-maintenance-two-great-tips.html

[Dennis Radeke]

[Franz Bieberkopf] “… Adobe CS sales and upgrades are down?”

No.

Also, a quick note on the Creative Cloud subscription model. I think of it as a good choice or alternative for some users. Adobe believes in open workflows and to take that idea further – open choices on how to purchase the software.

If you want a traditional license of software, great! Upgrade as before. As Craig noted, we have changed how far back we look for a qualified upgrade but a) we let people know this was changing well before the CS6 launch and b) subsequently offered specials to get people from CS3 to move up before time ran out. You might say Adobe is getting greedy, but if you look around the industry, most major software companies weren’t going back three versions to allow for an upgrade.

If you want to have more flexibility in your software license and get updates and additional programs, and cloud stuff, etc. the Creative Cloud subscription model might work for you. You pay less and when CS-next comes out, you automatically have access to it. You get Master Collection which is nice for those of you that need InDesign or Dreamweaver once in a while. you get the cloud storage. However, if you stop your subscription, you only have what you started with, which may be nothing…

Both sides have merit and in the end, it’s a choice. It’s a choice that’s up to YOU, not Adobe!

Here’s an FAQ for ya. https://www.adobe.com/products/creativecloud/faq.html

Hope this helps,
Dennis – Adobe guy

[Dennis Radeke]

[Walter Soyka] “As these tests show, you can render ray-traced comps on the CPU, but it is dramatically slower than rendering on the GPU, so a qualified NVIDIA GPU is highly recommended!”

This is true. When there is no NVIDIA GPU present, the Optix engine has been recompiled for CPU and therefore takes a performance hit. For my MacBook Pro with AMD/ATI, I use the “Draft” mode which utilizes OpenGL. For basic visualization, this isn’t too bad, but like you said the NVIDIA card is highly recommended!

[Dennis Radeke]

[Gary Huff] “Well, that’s because the After Effects ray tracer requires CUDA”

Actually, After Effects CS6 uses NVIDIA’s Optix Ray-tracing engine which is why it’s so much faster on NVIDIA GPUs

https://www.nvidia.com/object/optix.html

Dennis – Adobe guy

[Dennis Radeke]

[Chris Harlan] “You can build ProRes templates for both timeline and export.”

Sounds like you’re giving Premiere Pro a spin, thanks!

You might check out the presets for Mac users that are located here:
ProRes Presets for Mac

this will give you ProRes export presets via Premiere Pro and AME.

Dennis – Adobe guy

[Dennis Radeke]

Interesting article for sure and like some said, discussing imaginary software or what could be is a powerful vehicle for making it a reality.

For the article, I will only comment and say that I don’t think anything the author listed there as something that Apple can do that the competition can’t do as well.

Dennis – Adobe

[Dennis Radeke]

[Craig Seeman] “All reports I’ve seen say they are fine for editing with FCPX and Smoke ran their demo on one as well. I can’t speak for Premiere or Avid though. They may not be great render/compression engines but they’re quite capable of a lot more than business admin work.”

You can expect as good performance on Premiere Pro CS6 than you would get with any other NLE. Remember, Adobe was first of the big 3 to get to 64-bit on Mac and now with CS6 has some OpenCL support for AMD/ATI cards.

Like any 64-bit app, the more resources you throw at it, the better your performance.

Dennis – Adobe guy

[Dennis Radeke]

[Itamar Naamani] “Mac Pro officially pronounced dead”

Not as long as there are some Mac people holding out hope… The statute of limitations for hope for a MacPro tower apparently has no expiration date.

[Dennis Radeke]

I missed the keynote (I’m actually taking a week off) and was wondering if they announced new towers or not?

If they did – details!
If not – please do not go to any tall buildings today, you will be fine.

Dennis