Re: Premiere Pro CS 6.0: First Impressions

As a longtime FCP and Avid user (mostly FCP). Premiere Pro was always kind of a joke. I recently did the portrait project for the RED user party at NAB this year. We had to stay in 4K the whole time and we had to use Adobe Premiere Pro. I had never used Premiere and wanted to hate it. I couldn't even find any one to ask questions. I didn't know anyone in Hollywood that even uses PP. So I jumped in cold. I was told that PP can handle R3D files raw. I couldn't believe how well it worked. Keep in mind, I was on a mac pro tower with a ton of horsepower and a RED Rocket card (not sure if that mattered). We shot on RED epic at 4K, cut and output 4k and never skipped a beat or slowed down. I was SUPER impressed with PP. I can't wait to dig into PP6. The most annoying thing was not being as fast as I am on FCP. little things like PP calling the "blade" the "razor". But those thing are easily fixed with more time. I also loved the title tool. Even though I was simple it was much better that FCPs title tool. I, like many others are not impressed with FCPX and don't have time to relearn how to edit. PP6 looks like a natural alternative.

Here is a link to our RED contest piece. Enjoy!

https://vimeo.com/40551043