PPro CS3: Installed, initial thoughts, crash!

Even with the 1.1 update, it feels shaky as hell. Thankfully
it's running on XP SP2 and SP3; Vista would be a grand
headache no doubt.

My F9 title shortcut no longer works - on the Adobe Premiere
Pro £80/$150 editing keyboards we bought. Not impressed.

The first crash occurred about an hour into the first project.
A regular PAL 25p SD edit. When the title creator did finally
appear it crashed when trying to scroll through the fonts
using the right-hand side menu.
- We got no chance to save the project before the crash.
- When it was possible to select different fonts in the
title window, with the title creator open, it was then
impossible to save it as a title file because - how silly us -
we should have named it before creating it.
The only thing it its favour is that it is microscopically
easier to unlink all those dreadful sticky panels.

If Adobe want this to rival FCP, Avid, etc. they've got
a lot of work to do before shoveling out this rubbish
with so many critical flaws.

We haven't tried HD yet. I haven't got the nerve.

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PPro 1.5.1 was/is a the greatest little NLE out there.
Considering Adobe (finally) cocked up Cool Edit Pro (we always
knew they would) and nothing above ver.1.5.1 is
worth our time, how long do we have to wait before
Adobe have their act together as well as they did circa
ver. 1.5.1 of things?


Any other catastrophic PPro gems we should be preparing
ourselves for?

D.

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