Peter Corbett
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[Ron Pestes] “I made the jump to Adobe yesterday because of the 50% off deal.”
Just take it nice and slow when having a go at CS5.5. Do what I did when I switched from Adobe to FCP, but in reverse. I’d start a new project that is not too challenging, something that doesn’t rely on media/project management from an existing FCP project.
There are trips and learnings everywhere, but DO learn on a real project. It’s the only way really. And as I said, do it on a project that has a bit of time and isn’t critical. You will find you pick it up quicker than you thought.
Hopefully you have a Nvideo Cuda card in your Mac as well.
Peter Corbett
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Nicely said Chris. It is a bargain, really. I use FCP as well as CS5.5, but if I didn’t have these apps I would jump on this deal. As an example, Adobe Media Encoder is VERY powerful and FAST.
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[Dennis Radeke] “Make money with our product for free for 30 days.”
Nice! 🙂
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The suite gives you 64-bit Photoshop, After Effects with the killer new stabiliser, plus Flash Professional (because FCS is so good with Flash creation) and all these programs…
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Audition
Flash Catalyst
Flash Professional
Illustrator
OnLocation
Encore
Media EncoderYour post was so hilarious I nearly fell off my chair.
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I’m pretty sure that the demo doesn’t have all the codecs and full features. I understand it is to do with licencing with the various codec manufacturers. The suite is such a good price that I would recommend buying it. My CS5.5 slips into bed quite nicely with FCP on my Mac Pro and Macbook Pro. They never fight.
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[Douglas Morse] “I HAVE switched to Adobe as of today and Adobe is ahead of Final Cut X in the race. They have all of the professional features, tight integration, and native DSLR support. Apple cannot catch up. (But I’d love to be wrong as more is better) But the switch is a lot less painful than I thought it would be. In fact, it’s pretty awesome as the Adobe suite is fantastic.”
I think you will find the Titler in Premiere so far ahead of the FCP7 version, it’s not even funny. It was ported from the Inscriber CG guys years ago when it started as a broadcast online title generator.
Plus the import of layered PSD’s as “sequences” and the tight integration with Photoshop will save you more time than you ever imagined.
It’s not perfect but it works. If you map navigational controls to the left side of the keyboard (for righties), it is very fast.
Here are some speed shortcut remaps for my Mac Pro;
Previous edit point: Command-Q
Next edit point: Command-W
Ripple delete: Command-1
Apply default video transition: Command-A
Apply default video transition: Command-SIt’s not difficult. I had to switch two years ago to FCP to fit in with agencies, but I’ve been back using CS5 for some time now. It’s just faster and more powerful.
I do hope the situation improves with Final Cut X but I strongly disagree with Chris’ optimism and seeming apologia for Apple. Competition is good for NLE development and that competition just got a whole lot shorter.
Peter Corbett
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[Steve Connor] “Can you get from PPro to resolve though?
Steve Connor
Adrenalin Television”I asked this exact question at NAB, and the somewhat ambiguous answer was “not as well as FCP integration”. But this may change with what’s been happening.
Peter Corbett
Powerhouse Productions
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I’ve never even opened iMovie, and sorry no Red use here, but over on the Red-user site, you’ll find lots of good stuff about Red and Premiere. We mainly use XDCAM from the Sony F3.
I was surprised at the time that Adobe was passionate about developing native Red support, even before the camera was hot. Premiere was always known as a “student” amateur product and I think that perception always burned at them while CS was developed; that it wasn’t “pro” and not up there with Final Cut and Avid.
But along with Red, just about any format that exists can be directly imported with any “log and transfer” mumbo jumbo and start editing immediately.
Peter Corbett
Powerhouse Productions
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[Tom Daigon] “Jumping to Adobe CS5 is seamless and easy. No cash flow problems at all. It can be configured to feel like FCP 7 in terms of keyboard commands and its not an iMoive knock off ;-)”
I agree. We run FCP7 and CS5.5 seamlessly together here. CS5.5 is more similar to FCP than Avid is to FCP. Any FCP user will find the transition pretty easy and they will love the more powerful Premiere Titler and After Effects integration & Mercury rendering.
But I will probably get FCPX anyway when the dust settles in a couple of weeks and give it a go. It does seems from the many threads here that FCP7 will still have to be the main pro Apple NLE. The big issue is development in that product will stop, with FCPX not reaching the same extensive functionality for a considerable time to come.
If you’re standing still, you’re going backwards…
Peter Corbett
Powerhouse Productions
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The first thing I will check is that it isn’t the horrible bland boring monocramatic GUI of FCP7
Peter Corbett
Powerhouse Productions
http://www.php.com.au