Re: The Lion in the Room

[John Davidson] "Nobody is going to switch to Premiere. That's the equivalent of threatening to call your old high school girlfriend when you fight with your wife. Premiere may do all these fun things, but as soon as your best client asks for you to dig out an archived FCP project in ProRes and make a revision, you'll be back. And oh yeah, CS5.5 broke the AJA drivers, so I guess Adobe doesn't care about pro users either."

Well... some people are and for those that aren't, that's cool too... We're happy to help whoever with whatever part of Adobe products they want.

As for editing that old FCP project - you can do that on Premiere Pro too. XML and ProRes is just fine.

Lastly and most importantly, Adobe didn't 'break' the AJA drivers. With a new Adobe version, comes a newer version of drivers from AJA to support it. There is generally some delay from the release of the software to the video i/o vendors supporting it. That's like saying Apple broke the AJA drivers when a new version of FCP comes out. ;-)

Dennis - Adobe guy