Re: CS6 is released - so what now?

[Oliver Peters] "There are no free lunches ;-) You always have to pay the render tax at some point. Up front, in the middle, at the end. Pick your poison."

Of course. We are in total agreement. Pr works quite differently than 7.

[Oliver Peters] "Remember that some of these PPro issues are because people are buying into the "edit native" hype. So they'll cut long-GOP H264 or RED files directly, because it's so easy to start out that way. Then in the end, the time savings catch up to you. The same situation ("conforming") occurs when cutting native HDV or even Canon XF footage in FCP7."

Precisely. LongGOP in 7 is terrible. A ProRes timeline avoids most of that business, a really easy solution.

[Oliver Peters] "Some of this has become worse as we are embracing a file-based world. When everything was output to tape and you had real-time hardware, like Avid Nitris DX or Matrox Axio for Premiere Pro, you didn't have a lengthy export, because the hardware took care of this and it was real-time out to tape. Now you no longer have that advantage, because there's no such thing as on-the-fly, real-time effects when you are writing a a multi-codec timeline out to a single-codec "flat" file."

You could have a really expensive system and do this with Premiere (real time). I would wager that most on this forum wouldn't spring for it. So most of us will probably fall somewhere on the spectrum of very little real time to some very decent real time.

DavidL, I appreciate your enthusiasm for Red @ 1/16 resolution on an older laptop,mand you know what, I never thanked you for your article either. Thank you.

I have to say though, try 1/16 for a whole project, it gets pretty tiresome. Even 1/2 is tough. It's awesome for quickly checking shots, but it's not sustainable through a project, at least for me. I personally need more detail (I also use external monitors most of the time).

Again, this a great read for people opening Pr for the first time: http://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/2011/02/red-yellow-and-green-ren...