@Tim, you may be right, but with all due respect, I have to tell you that Premiere isn’t just a ‘different complex system’ – there are a great many ‘features’ [that I consider bugs] that will trip up
users by there sheer impracticality.
The whole audio scenario is a perfect example. Adobe may have had a good reason for
locking tracks as stereo or mono, as well as limiting the audio mixer to Track Only operation, but for the life of me, I can think what that ‘good reason’ is.
In the end, all is does is force the user to work AROUND the hobbled settings – and often, one is forced to work in an unintuitive way.
[There are other similar issues I can list, but won’t right now].
I’ve been working with Premiere Pro for the last 3 weeks and have found the system so awesome on one hand [Mercury Engine, etc] – and so utterly lacking on the other.
I am hopeful that CS6 will see many of these issues corrected – I applaud Adobe for listening to their user’s concerns.
Thanks,
Wayne