[Lance Bachelder]

Complete AAF / OMF integration – to play nice with others
AAF import/export much improved and works well with Vegas 6 and Avid Xpress Pro.

Hardware control – external mixers etc
Not yet. Although I’ve yet to see editors running work surfaces even on systems that support them – audio editors seem to live by them.

Import Single sequence from another project automatically
I agree with this one but simple work around – dump all unnecessary files and sequences from other project before you import it. Importing other PPro projects works well – though don’t know what “automatically” menas?

Chain of effects – user built effects chain to be reused
Presets are easy to build but still must ne appied individually unless via copy and paste attributes. Sony Vegas is the only NLE I know of the allows custom fx chains.

Hot keys for Effects
Odd request.

Open complete sequence into Audition – Audio and Video –
This is a MUST but not there.

3:2 Pulldown tools like after effects for film based work
Are you editing film that will have the begative cut? Doubtful.

Ram leak issue
You want this added back in as a feature?

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That’s not the point. All the new app’s are significant, much improved upgrades and those buying bundles for the first time should be very happy. But Adobe is attempting something no software company has ever done – charging you for software but not allowing you to use it. This is like trading in your old car for a new one with air conditioning (paying extra for the air) but not being allowed to turn it on because your trade-in didn’t have air. The only way to use the air would have been to not trade-in the old car and pay full price for the new one.

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I have to concur with Mike on this thread – the new upgrade pricing is just plain idiotic! You’re making previous customers pay for software they may already have(Photoshop/Illustrator) in order to upgrade their video products. And the new software is useless to people who don’t want or need the additional software because it can’t be installed and activated unless you already own an older copy!(unlike Micosoft which is pretty generous on bundle installation allowing Word users to upgrade to Office)

Then there’s the UPGRADE price!!! $499 for the standard bundle!?! $649 for Pro bundle!?! Who inside Adobe approved this? The new apps are great and huge improvements to workflow, specially Premiere Pro – but you’ve negated months and months of beta testing and engineering in one fell swoop! Adobe must know there are competing products out there – none of which offers such a bizarre upgrade path. It’s going to be interesting to see how all this shakes out but I suspect some firings are coming soon at Adobe.

Jeez, my names all over the Adobe press releases – I’m embarrassed and would never have signed a release had I known this mega-blunder was in the works.

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Last week!?! Just return it. Come on…who buys a new Mac the week before Macworld!?!

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Pretty harsh. I’ve cut everything from animation to a $40 million studio feature with the Mojo and never had a problem with one – vary cool device with excellent realtime performance. The only thing horrible is that it only has consumer connectivity and you have to spend an additional 25 grand to get SDI, balanced audio and real HD with the Adrenaline.

That’s horrible and that’s why FCP is kicking Avid’s butt here in LA – for the cost of an AdrenalineHD box alone you can get the best quad Mac, 30 in. display, Kona 2, 7TB Xraid, software, edit console, Aeron chair, studio monitors and a 50″ plasma.

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It’s true – it’s open and very clean. I can render out of AE to any flavor of DNxHD and then cut and trim it in near realtime in Vegas 6 off a single SATA drive. With a fast RAID I could cut an Avid HD show in realtime in Vegas – no Mojo or Arenaline box needed. I do believe the Cineform codec is even better than the Avid codec and have done a lot of testing with it. I agree, Cineform should perform equally well on BMD boards as they do the Xena (Kona) boards from AJA – people always want choices.

I would guess that Apple will do something soon with a compressed HD format – they are the only NLE out there that doesn’t! (other than DVCPRO HD – which they used to off-line the movie Dreamer) Avid, Edius, Sony Vegas, Premiere Pro all support excellent compressed HD codecs.

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Yeah – I wasn’t saying the ATI card was the culprit – only saying it was a weak link in the chain. Stick with nVidia products for Avid on PC.

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You may want to switch to an nVidia Quadro card if you can afford one. Avid doesn’t recognize the ATI hardware and switches to software mode for OpenGL effects and some realtime effects.

Go the Avid site for approved video card hardware:

https://www.avid.com/products/xpressprohd/specs.asp#pc

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With Avid you’re stuck with either built-in mobo sound or Creative Soundblaster (Audigy 2 works fine). I don’t think Avid wants folks using pro audio gear inside their NLE – that’s why they own Pro Tools.

I do with they would ad support for M-Audio cards since they now own them. They could easily take over the Soundblaster business.

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Maybe Jim is making comedies and doesn’t want to become a “serious” editor.

Jim, if you like PPro – stick with it – learn it well – it’s so close to FCP it would take you about 30min. to be cutting “serious” work on a Mac. If you have the extra 3 or 4 grand floating around you may want to pick up a G5 and FCP Studio – or go down to your local Apple Store and play with it for a while – you may like it more than PPro.

All NLE’s are just tools – a good editor can cut a quality sequence on any platform. I use FCP 5, Vegas 6, XpressPro and PPro 2, all on a regular basis for paying gigs – they all have features I wish the others had and they suck at times, but they all get the job done one way or another.

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