[Steve Kilisky]

Hi Andrew,

Yes, Premiere Pro and Encore will be x-platform. Soundbooth will be included instead of Audition in the Production Studio. Audition will continue to be developed as a standalone Windows application.

Steve

[Steve Kilisky]

Minor correction. Product name is actually Soundbooth, but I like Soundboard as well.

[Steve Kilisky]

Minor correction: Product name is Adobe Soundbooth.

thanks,

Steve

[Steve Kilisky]

Something that may not be obvious (it wasn’t to me at least) is that the Timewarp effect works differently than turning on PixelMotion in the Timeline.

When using Pixelmotion in the timeline, the user does not have to think about the frame rate of the source footage you are retiming. In the timeline the Pixelmotion algorithm automatically knows to treat a 29.97 deinterlaced clip as an effective frame rate of 59.94.

Timewarp uses the Comp frame rate and assumes this is the same frame rate as the footage that is being retimed which is not the case when you deinterlace. I hope I am explaining this clearly (technical writing is not my forte). So what this means is that if you are retiming 29.97 deinterlaced footage, in order to achieve the best results, you should put this footage in a 59.94 comp and then either set the output frame rate in the RQ to 29.97 or drop the retimed comp into a 29.97 comp.

Hope that helps and doesn’t confuse more.

[Steve Kilisky]

Tryout is now available:

https://blogs.adobe.com/skilisky/2006/01/after_effects_70_pro_tryouts_a.html

Steve

[Steve Kilisky]

Hi Rhett,

You are not out of bounds.

AE7 projects cannot be opened in earlier versions of AE.

Steve

[Steve Kilisky]

thanks, Barend.

Steve

[Steve Kilisky]

Hi Kurt,

AE7 is not 64-bit or universal binary. Both of these are important features we need to address going forward.

AE7 does support more than 2GB of RAM. We support 3.5 GB on MAc and 3GB of Win XP and 4GB on Win 64.

Regards,

Steve

[Steve Kilisky]

We’re working to get the tryout posted ASAP. Should be up within the next week. As soon as it is available, I’ll post here.

Apologies for the inconvenience,

Steve

[Steve Kilisky]

Hi Mike,

Maybe we lost our minds, but here is some additional info behind the configuration changes. Both editions offer the core tools for post production: Premiere, After Effects and Photoshop. The Premium edition which includes Encore, Audition and Illustrator, and AE Pro in addition to Premiere and Photoshop offers what we feel is the most comprehensive set tools for film/video post at what we hope customers will feel is an attractive price point.

Premiere Pro while not as sophisticated as Audition for audio, has a strong set of audio tools for common audio post needs. Premiere Pro 2.0 added DVD authoring from within the timeline, that while not a replacement for Encore DVD, allows for fairly powerful basic DVD authoring. Feedback we received also indicated that customers felt Photoshop was fundamental to post production workflows and should be included in the Standard Suite. When we combined all of these factors with the fact that the majority of customers purchase the Pro VCOL, we felt with this change in the long run better met our customer needs.

We did not make this change lightly and ulitmately after weighing the pros and cons felt that these two new configurations better allowed us to meet the needs of our customers who have different needs and budgets.

While I respect that you still may not agree with the decision, my goal is to help explain why the changes were made, (hopefully for the better).

Regards,

Steve