What's Wrong with Pr?

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What's Wrong with Pr?
by Don Smith on Apr 13, 2012 at 6:08:19 pm

I tried Premiere Pro CS5.5 because I own the CS 5.5 Master Collection and it was right there. Even had an nVidea card that accelerates it installed at the time. Didn't like it. This was when FCPX was first introduced and I wanted to compare. I went with FCPX along with the right ATI card to accelerate it and I haven't looked back. With the .4 update FCPX is a joy to use. Oh yeah, I had edited on Avid at work for years so I already knew I didn't want Avid.

Now, I'm dealing with a Premiere Pro guy on our FCPX list who keeps throwing the Pr turd into our pool as if Pr is the perfect answer to all editing situations. Now, only using the truth and not stretching it, I know that Pr also has shortcomings but a search this morning didn't help me. All the reviews I read are by fans. Is there anyone on this group knowledgeable about any shortcomings of Pr?

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Re: What's Wrong with Pr?
by Don Smith on Apr 13, 2012 at 6:27:23 pm

Found this video that helps:

https://vimeo.com/28888756

NewsVideo.com

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Re: What's Wrong with Pr?
by Tom Brooks on Apr 13, 2012 at 7:06:23 pm

I am trying it out right now on a 720p DVCProHD project. Mac Pro 12 core, 96GB RAM, ATI Radeon HD 5770, AJA IoExpress. Number one, the responsiveness is very bad. JKL double-speed and reverse are horrible. Audio is quite often not there at all--literally, it's hit or miss for the audio to play with the video. Part of that is probably drive access and throughput (this project is on a substandard OWC RAID drive), but I found myself wishing to be back in FCX, or better yet, FC7.

As far as real-time without transcoding...not seeing it perform as advertised on this system. Files from Canon 5D and even AVCCAM files are not playing very well in the source monitor--slow, skippy, and hesitant. If this is the experience I'm to expect, this product better improve a lot in CS6. Maybe it all works like a charm in a PC with nVidia Cuda, but not on this Mac Pro. Final Cut X is far, far speedier and much more responsive.

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Re: What's Wrong with Pr?
by Michael Garber on Apr 13, 2012 at 9:41:46 pm

I have a feeling it works better with Cuda on a PC in 5.5. CS6 might be different. Here's a review of CS6 by a good friend who beta tested it.

http://theeditdoctor.tumblr.com/post/21041256494/premiering-adobe-premiere

As I said in a previous post, I'm looking at building a PC in addition to my Macs. Seems like it could be the best of both worlds (assuming you get it running and stable). If the Macs don't work well, then switch over to the PC and run Premiere or Avid. This is all untested by me (I'll test stuff until the cows come home before I do anything pro on it) so I may come back and say don't do it in a couple months once I've gone through everything.

Michael Garber
5th Wall - a post production company

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Re: What's Wrong with Pr?
by Eric Santiago on Apr 15, 2012 at 1:38:52 am

Just the cumbersome start of the app then setting up the project settings taking over 3 (sometimes more!) minutes of my precious time is enough for me to avoid it again and again.
I do use it at work for a lot of things but a distant third place from Avid and FCP/FCPX.

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