[Perry Cheng]

Lawrence, I moved on. Life is too short waiting for Adobe to fix these features. I adapt and get used to it. Oh well… Best wish.

Perry

[Perry Cheng]

so, I should download Woowave from your site, install it, test out the .mov. post the link online? Please clarify.

Perry

[Perry Cheng]

hmmm… try Premiere Element for most of what you need, but, I m not sure about Green Screen Key. It may have one. PC

[Perry Cheng]

Thanks folks. I think I should take Walter’s advice to trial it. Really, I am just an video edit enthusiast, therefore, no need for the fancy stuff. I don’t use MAC, so, no need for the improvement in that regard… so, what features attract an average user, not the professionals?

redesigned, efficient, customizable user interface
>> nice, but not entirely have to be for me, cause the interface in CS5 is pretty good already.

dynamic trimming, including trimming with JKL and other keyboard shortcuts
>> improve efficiency but I don’t see how I would need that. Good to have.

adjustment layers
>> yes, sounds very useful. Like PS.

Warp Stabilizer effect
>> The only attraction. But, like I said before, Mecalli is better, right? This feature basically is just take from AE plugin to make it PPro plugin.

expanded multi-camera editing, with more multicam angles and improved interface
>> Useless for non-professional.

improved performance, extending GPU processing to some systems using OpenCL
>> Nice, but another toy.

new and more powerful audio features, including adaptive audio tracks, customizable audio channel mapping for output, and improved Audio Mixer panel
>> For professionals

new native import of ARRI Alexa, RED Scarlet, RED Epic, and Canon Cinema EOS C300 footage
>> For pros

improved color features, including integration with SpeedGrade and redesigned Three-Way Color Corrector effect
>> For pros.

improved workflows with other applications in Adobe Creative Suite, as well as with Final Cut Pro and Avid software
>> For pros.

faster Adobe Media Encoder, redesigned to make authoring for multiple outputs and mobile devices easier
>> minor improvements.

enhanced Adobe Encore for creation of DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, and web DVDs
>> an minor improvement.

Adobe Transmit and Kona 3 performance
>> no idea what these are for.

Overall, it is not worth my upgrade. When you compare CS4 to CS5 PPro, there is a lot of great new features (Cuda support, customizeable workspace, fast color corrector, Ultra)while CS5 to CS6, just basically improvements. How are improvements worth the upgrade? Photoshop CS5 has the content aware vs there is no such feature before is what worth an upgrade. An minor improvement on content aware by allowing you to choose where to sample from is not worthy of the upgrade. Well, may be it is just me. I am happy with CS5 so far. Thanks for your feedback though.

Perry

[Perry Cheng]

Andy,
B4 u started investing 2 much, like silly me, try to see what Bitrate does your AVCHD record in. If it allows you to lower that, which in 99% of average people’s eyes, don’t see the different, lowering it from 24MBit to 15MBit. BTW, I assume you have a graphic card that has CUDA playback (at least the workaround to trick PPro to recognize it.)

Best wish.
Perry

[Perry Cheng]

very nice

[Perry Cheng]

thanks, I think it is time for me to pitch in more for another HDD? V: drive is only reading and writing at 30MB/s (probably because the use of a PATA HD controller? I will find a Serial ATA instead, hopefully soon.

Sincerely,
Perry

[Perry Cheng]

Thank you Shane, so even with my new system: i7, 16G RAM, GTX 570, SATA C, PATA 7200RPM V (250G free), I still can edit 24 Mbps 1080p file smoothly? Is that your experience? I just want to rule out everything. The only thing I did not try yet, is buy a SATA 6G/s 7200rpm drive for the preview video drive. But, would that make any difference?

Perry

[Perry Cheng]

I did another test, I think I may have figured this out… but after $1000 later… If I lower my Camcorder Recording Quality to FXP which is 17 Mbps vs MXP which is 24 Mbps, my system handles everything that throw at it.

So, my question is, what is the difference between 17 vs 24 Mbps? They both are 1920×1080 60i but, can one tell the quality difference?

Thanks in advance,
Perry

[Perry Cheng]

How about this card?

EVGA 02G-P3-1469-KR GeForce GTX 560 Superclocked Video Card – 2GB, GDDR5, PCI-Express 2.0 (x16), 2x Dual-Link DVI-I, Mini-HDMI, DirectX 11, Dual-Slot, SLI Ready, Overclocked

Thanks for your advice.

Perry