[Robert Withers]

Such a personal choice. My partner loves her GH5, I replaced a Sony that recorded great pictures because I hated the DSLR ergonomics. Shooting with a small Canon camcorder that shoots like a film camera/super 8/camcorder. It’s always a pleasure to pick up.

[Robert Withers]

Aii. Pr “offers’ a number of functions that just don’t work. Can you export in another file format? Good luck.

[Robert Withers]

Hi AJ, this isn’t exactly about your issue, but perhaps is related.

I notice you mention working with Premiere Pro 14.2.0. I have a version of PPr called Version 2013 and also called 7.2.2 running on an old Macbook. Adobe told me they don’t support P Pro versions older than 1 year. I’m running PrP 2019 on an iMac but could/should? update to PrP 2021. It seems you can only install 14.5 on your M1 machine. Can you share any references to PrPro version naming and support?

Thanks,

Robert

[Robert Withers]

Sympathies. I’m also working with a vintage project on a vintage 2017 macbook pro running Snow Leopard (or is is Mountain Lion, I get those cats mixed up) OS 10.8.5 and the first Adobe Pr CC which was released in 2013 (also called Version 7.2.2) with issues getting it to launch and output to something I can edit on a more recent iMac with Catalina. (Aii)

One thing I do is wait about 40 minutes online for the Adobe support people in India to pick up. They’re usually pretty helpful and I get one or two nuggets from each call. Latest was to put all media for a project into a single folder on the root or a single external drive. I have to do this by hand since the Premiere Media Manager just doesn’t work in any version I have.

Keep us posted . . .

[Robert Withers]

Thanks for the topic. I’m an underground/experimental filmmaker and I like to work on projects over time — not just to get them in and out the door. I hear you about the never-ending learning curve, but why should NLE-makers keep moving the goal posts and requiring different tactics and strategies? I got into Premiere after FCP7 was deprecated, but Apple and Premiere both relentliessly rewrite software while I’m working on a project, and I have to keep changing software, which doesn’t always update projects correctly. I’m hinking about FCPX but I don’t know what problems it may have. I tried Resolve but it seems very demanding on the machinery. People advised me to sell my new computer and buy stuff that was totally souped up to run Resolve. What about Media Composer ?

Thanks for any ideas.

[Robert Withers]

Thanks, Oliver. Here’s what I wrote during my last resolve days:

Resolve 16 is running very slow for me. Folks have advised selling my new 2019 iMac 3.6 Hz computer with 16 G RAM, getting an SSD instead of the Fusion drive, replacing the 575X Radeon Pro GPU (4 G) with a higher grade, replacing my Thunderbolt 3 ext drives with SSDs or RAIDS. . . Is Resolve just too demanding for ordinary computer resources? Does Premiere function with less demand on the computer and its parts? Or is it just easier to solve problems by using higher-end machinery?

I’d have to go back to resolve to identify exactly what the issues were — it had to do with importing, renaming and converting 1000+ files within that internal project management system, bins, etc. I would enter the command then walk away for a cup of coffee.

Thanks again,

Robert

[Robert Withers]

Oliver and all,

I tried some simple editing with Resolve on my Mac (45-90 minute timeline, transcoded clips, straight cuts) and every process bogged down in slowness, especially in the folders(?) and naming. Helpful people said I should have got a better GPU, a faster internal drive, faster external drives, everything better, faster, more expensive. Sell my new iMac and start over. So I resolved to go back to Premiere. Is this the general experience with Resolve?

I realize y’all are driving souped-up and highly-tuned machines.

Thanks

[Robert Withers]

I’ve used AME for mxf clips and converted to Pro Res. Not lately.

[Robert Withers]

What is the Affinity video editor for a Mac? I tried to use Resolve but it’s a different type of software and all the answers to my issues came back to hardware (GPU, drive speed, etc.). So I’m skulking back to Adobe. It kind of works, as long as you manage all the so-called upgrade versions. Sigh.

Robert

[Robert Withers]

Hello, Doug.

I wrestled with this kind of issue with the help of the nice folks on phone support. For hours and days. Working from a vintage laptop running vintage MacOS. I got omething into CC 2019 but need to do some re-editing.

Good luck,

R