[Sorin Pricop]

I have Upgraded the workstation to i7 Extreme with 12GB of ram and 2 Nvidia Quadro’s | Sata 3 HDD’s and SSD for System.
Went down to only 3- 4 crashes a day. Pretty random – no questions or errors shown.

It looks like Adobe just made it steadier … it is not as unstable as it was when i bought it …

Purchase it only if you really really REALLY need it …

For me … it was not worth it .. and it never will be … as long as Adobe continues this road. Creating a new product instead of just consolidating the one allready in use.

Corporate thinking .. more money. I hope all that money will go on medical care for all those responsible for these decisions …

Best Regards
Soreen

[Sorin Pricop]

Hi there,

Well – my company went against my advice and bought the Master Collection of CS5.
I have tested the PPro under Windows7 x64 – 8GB of RAM.
The Mercury Engine – works well – but not breath taking, and only if you have supported video cards … see the requirements.
Premiere – well that’s a big lie. It crashed on me every 10 – 5 – 2 minutes. And the project was only 35 minute of HDV material captured with Cineforms HDlink. If you – just play the timeline and try to move the slider will crash – if you cut only audio after unlinking the sequence it will crash – and so on.
Premiere PRO CS5 is VERY UNSTABLE!!!!

After effects – is more stable – i have been able to do a project of 5 minutes in it – with only 4 crashes. And that was a whole day.

Photoshop – well that looks more stable – however i have 2 crashes with that too … without letting me know why …

All crashes seem random – and they wont tell you why. Only: Adobe has crashed – windows will look online for a solution.

All in all – CS5 – a big back step. I don’t know why is it like this – i thought new things supposed to be more stable. But it seems Adobe is not the case.

I will continue to work with CS4 – this one after a while stopped crashing on me. I can do my job without too much stress and anger.

Hopefully this will be helping others to realize that for the moment CS5 is a NO GO. Maybe after they will release a Service pack or something.

Respectfully,
Soreen