Re: Vista 64 and premiere

[MoonLitNite] "Actually, an Adobe executive would have the heads of software or marketing managers who attempted recoding an application that wouldn't have a payback for over 5 years (to say nothing about trying to hit a moving target of OS API specs) when they could be adding current features/function/bug fixes in the short term to keep ahead of the competition. And even today, I'm sure Adobe's marketing and product management is doing a careful cost/benefit analysis vis-a-vis the competition in prioritizing the release of a 64 bit Vista release of Premiere Pro. We've recently seen a resegmented spin-off of Audition to SoundBooth and Adobe has recently acquired Serious Magic (including the awesome DV Rack) so perhaps there's still more important fish to fry then a 64 bit Vista port - at least for some of us!

Perhaps I'm among the dumb fools, but having managed and made the "software sausage," I'd be the last to judge Adobe harshly."

Hi Michael,

While you make some informed points about software development there remains the issue of whether Adobe should be judged harshly for the development path of Premiere Pro.

The present state of affairs, from the perspective of someone doing effects intensive, large projects, for broadcast, is that Adobe have engineered a product that systematically crashes under WinXP32 for lack of resources - a product that is almost impossible to use for such projects without substantial, inefficient, workarounds.

Perhaps, as you point out, it would have been unfeasable for them to have had a development path that made it easy to provide a 64 bit solution, but given that they almost certainly knew the strain that the product would create on XP32 bit resources, was it then irresponsible of them to release it into the market and claim that it was for professional users, without any caveats whatsoever? Or is my assumption that they were aware of it's resource useage weaknesses incorrect? Either way I believe they can be held accountable as the resources problems surfaced with 1.0 and two major releases later, they have not been properly addressed. That fact alone inclines me to believe that they hope to sidestep the fix with a 64 bit version. Either that or perhaps they hope to migrate us to the Mac version, which, I'm told, will not suffer the same resources problem as under XP32. It seems to me that no matter which way you cut it they have not yet shown any real concern for the numbers of users like myself who suffer from their engineering decisions.

Not judged harshly? Tell someone that after a day of having to restart PPro 15-20 times in front of a client. As for me? I learned, painfully, how to reduce my restarts to under 5 a day, and my lost time to under a half hour. But I still regularly join the chant of users turning the air blue in Adobe's direction on a daily basis. If the energy behind all those invectives could be harnassed you could probably run a small city.


David
AllinOneFilms.com