Re: Premiere Pro gets an update - where's ours?

[David Frisk] "have to agree. I know that a lot of "professionals" don't use Premiere, but I honestly think it's due more from perception on the product than its actual merits."

That, and also if all you are an all Mac shop, Premiere hasn't been a viable option in quite some time, which I think has contributed to that perception. AJA just weeks ago started supporting CS3 on a Mac with their Kona plug-ins and if you read the release notes, there's still some work to be done as it's a V1 release and there are detials to be shored up (like timecode and the like).

I don't know about you guys, but a LOT of the work we do has Adobe generated media in it all the time, whether it is Illustrator text layouts, PSD docs, AE projects etc, it'd be cool to have a suite that integrated maximum editability of all of those products and documents, no matter what application of the Adobe Suite you are in. A cool feature that I read about in AE CS4 is the ability to export to flash with AE layers in tact through some sort of three letter format that sounds like some sort of protocol (akin to XML), now, thinking outside of the release notes here a little bit, this is a feature that I wish could somehow be ported to FCP. Take a prerendered (layer by layer) AE comp with those layers in tact and send it back to FCP with those same layers for easier color correction and editability (kind of like the reverse process automatic duck does now), but perhaps this would only be possible in Premiere. In this case, Premier just becomes another tool in the tool set. It's externally monitorable format and frame size agnostic approach to media creation is something that is sorely lacking in FCP. Also, the real time capabilities within all of those formats blow FCP out of the water. Also, frame based workflows are supported right now within Premiere and can be monitored in real time with a Kona. There's definitely some very cool things going on at Adobe.

Jeremy