More and more Final Cut editors are using Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 to make them more efficient. If you’re wondering if Adobe Premiere Pro is really worth the switch, check out the four-part web series (replay links are listed below) featuring Final Cut editors and how and why they use Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. You’ll learn the real story on Adobe Premiere Pro’s Mercury Playback Engine, what it means to edit DSLR footage natively, and how you can remove bottlenecks in your pipeline when working with Adobe After Effects and Photoshop. To follow up the series, check out the Q&A session to see if your burning questions were answered.
Join Chris Fenwick, as he explains his personal frustrations with Final Cut and why he decided to make the switch to Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. Chris will showcase Adobe Premiere Pro’s more advanced features and how the 64-bit, GPU accelerated Adobe Mercury Playback Engine speeds his entire editing workflow while solving a variety editing challenges. View the replay here: http://bit.ly/ChrisFenwick.
Join Richard Harrington, author of From Still to Motion, as he shows you why he uses Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 for editing HDSLR footage. Rich will share his post-production techniques and editing strategies in Adobe Premiere Pro for HDSLR color correction, audio syncing, and camera calibration. You’ll discover how to harness the professional-quality tools in CS5 Production Premium to natively edit, color correct, mix audio, and publish to the web and Blu-ray Disc. View the replay here: http://bit.ly/RichHarrington
Join Colin Smith, from PhotoshopCAFE.com as he shows you why he uses Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 to create training DVDs. Because of Adobe Premiere Pro’s tight integration with Adobe Photoshop and After Effects as well as its ability to edit multi-format assets on the same timeline without converting to Pro-Res, Colin uses the suite of tools in Adobe CS5 Production Premium to speed his entire production workflow. View the replay here: http://bit.ly/ColinSmith
Think of making the switch to Adobe Premiere Pro? Join Karl Soule, Adobe Premiere Pro expert, and Kevin Monahan, former Final Cut Pro editor, and get your questions answered. Learn how you can take advantage of Adobe Premiere Pro’s breakthrough performance and true native editing of DSLR formats. Have a hardware question? No problem, we have the answers you need to help you make the switch. View the replay here: http://bit.ly/Karl_Kevin
If you have a particular question you’d like answered, let Adobe know below.
I thought about switching and decided to try CS5.
(specifically Premiere since I use After Effects all the time).I was severely disappointed and went back to FCP.
Here are two reasons why I was not happy with Premiere…
1. For the variety of different projects I work on, I sometimes need some creative and innovative transitions. FX Factory fulfills that need in spades. Premiere is SORELY lacking in third party transitions
2. I sweeten my projects. Soundbooth is at best a prosumer app. It doesnt have the options, power and abilities that Sound Track Pro has to offer (i.e. thousands of samples that need NO downloading, support for control surfaces, sound effects modules that have lots of control options, etc.)
Posted by Tom Daigon on 11/05 at 04:14 PM
Hi There,
You should check out http://www.pixelan.com/3d/intro.htm for a $29 add-on to Premiere Pro. 3D Six Pack includes over 250+ transitions that drag/drop right onto the Premiere Pro timeline.
Have you uncovered the audio capabilities right inside Premiere itself? You don’t have to go to Soundbooth to sweeten your audio - Premiere has a ton of VST plug-ins, and there are 3rd party VST plug-ins all over the place - here are some free ones: http://www.voxengo.com/group/free-vst-plugins/
If you need help getting started with Premiere Pro’s audio capabilities, check out the following video:
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/short-and-suite/using-audio-effects-in-premiere-pro-/
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 11/05 at 06:01 PM
I did check out the Pixelan software you mentioned and wasnt impressed with what it had to offer. FX factory has a lot more to offer and more creative control to alter the effects.
Originally I tried working within PP to sweeten and found it to be frustrating dealing with its limitations as compared to the joyful experience of creating music tracks AND sweetening with Sound Track Pro.
I do appreciate the heads up but PP is not quite there for me.
If PP had the wide third party support that After Effects had and Soundbooth was beefed up, I would be more motivated to make the switch.
Posted by Tom Daigon on 11/05 at 08:50 PM
Your unfamiliarity with the PP & SB is the problem, not their lack of capabilities. This is always true when new users are familiar with one thing and switch to another.
Posted by Phillip Hudson on 11/08 at 02:21 PM
Actually, you couldnt be more wrong is this assumption. I invested in 2 Lynda.com courses (PP 5 hours and Sound booth 5 hours) that went into GREAT depth. After 30 years as an editor I was able to put the software through its paces and it came up short as stated in my original statement.
Please dont get defensive and make false assumptions just because my experience is not the same as yours 
Posted by Tom Daigon on 11/08 at 02:36 PM
I apologize. I did make some assumptions, but as it turns out (as usual with naysayers of PP), my assumptions are correct. 5 hours is hardly enough time to learn the ins and outs of a very sophisticated program like PP. Especially CS5 when coupled with the rest of the Production Suite. However, you must use what works for you. As for myself, I’ll go where the innovations go, and urge others to give PP a 1st, 2nd, or even a 3rd look. There’s a reason why there’s so much buzz around it. Maybe you’ll change your mind after the aforementioned Q&A sessions. Good luck to you.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 11/08 at 05:05 PM
Maybe I will change my mind when the aforementioned short comings have been addressed. Luck to you as well.
Posted by Tom Daigon on 11/08 at 06:28 PM
Hi, Phillip, thank you for your feedback. If you have made the switch to Adobe Premiere Pro, Karl Soule and Kevin Monahan have created a 7-part series to help you navigate Adobe Premiere Pro quickly. Check it out here: http://tv.adobe.com/show/switching-to-adobe-premiere-pro-cs5/
Posted by Michelle Gallina on 11/09 at 11:55 AM
I’m not abandoning FCP… it is useful in some edits. But I’m currently using PP because I am tired of tweaking FCP to get perfect results. I do motion graphics and I assemble them either in FCP or PP for the final output. In FCP I always encounter exports having stair stepping edges on graphic text or materials, it has to be tweaked to have a good output. So far in my PP experience, I have not encountered these issues. PP is also faster because of Mercury and Nvidia Integration. What I dont like in PP is, when rendering… it renders the timeline per cut, unlike in FCP which renders per frame.
Both apps are really good. Right now I have tons of critics between both apps…But both apps are just tools for me to get things done perfectly with extreme quality. If one doesn’t work the other should…as a motion graphic/video editor, I don’t perfect my use of a software, I perfect my profession… Just keep that in mind guys…
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 11/11 at 03:24 AM
PRORES ?
Does Adobe Premiere have anything that compares to ProRes?
Posted by georgemanzanilla on 11/12 at 06:23 PM
Hi, George, we don’t have to compare to ProRes—a common misconception is you need to convert your footage to edit. You don’t have to do so in Premiere Pro. If you have time, Chris Fenwick is doing a presentation on why you don’t need ProRes to edit. Check it out on Monday 12PM PST: Register on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/PPro_1
Or go directly to the session at noon: http://www.my.adobe.acrobat.com/AskCSPro
Posted by Michelle Gallina on 11/12 at 08:00 PM
Prores is not only an edit codec but it is also becoming the mastering codec of choice. What mastering codec, please dont tell me h.264
are editors creating commercials and long form show using?
Posted by Tom Daigon on 11/12 at 08:14 PM
...when they edit with PP.
Posted by Tom Daigon on 11/12 at 08:15 PM
I applaud Adobes push to innovate and communicate with its current and potential customers. Apple would do well to head this blitz of information and enthusiasm that Adobe is bringing to the web.
Posted by Tom Daigon on 11/12 at 10:49 PM
heed
Posted by Tom Daigon on 11/12 at 10:50 PM
Hi Las,
When it comes to output codecs, there are a couple that I use to output, depending on the job at hand.
One of them is, indeed, ProRes! Apple has done a great job making a compressed standard format. If you have the FCP installed on the same system, Adobe tools like Premiere Pro, After Effects, and the Adobe Media Encoder can output to a ProRes file, and I think you’ll find that the encoding is generally faster than other tools.
For deliverables that go directly to the web, I do usually go direct to an H.264 file, since that is the flavor of choice for web delivery these days. Premiere Pro lets me skip a step - I don’t have to encode the ProRes file first, then transcode that one for web delivery. I can output direct to an H.264 file first, then encode a ProRes file after. Handy for time-critical web delivery.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 11/15 at 11:59 AM
Thanks Karl. I always like to archive a master /Prores version of all projects so if it is needed for another usage in the future I can convert the Prores master to whatever is appropriate. Its nice to know that since I have FCP on the system that it makes Prores available to PP to use as well if I sometime in the future feel like PP has all the abilities I need as a NLE. At the moment it does not (as per first comment listed here).
Posted by Tom Daigon on 11/15 at 02:07 PM
You’re very welcome!
We are working on bringing Adobe Audition, Soundbooth’s bigger sister app, to the Mac for the first time. (it’s currently a Windows-only application.)
There’s an open beta for Mac users located here:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/audition/
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 11/15 at 03:15 PM
Yes I checked Audition out. It looks very impressive at first glance. Now if you could get Noise Industries to have FX Factory support PP that would resolve any issues I might have. I mentioned to them several times that expanding support to Mac PP would increase their customer base dramatically.
Posted by Tom Daigon on 11/15 at 04:13 PM
Are there going to be Replay links to day 2,3, and 4 like there was for the wonderful Chris Fenwick presentation?
Not all of us have the luxury of lunch everyday and sure would like to listen to Richard Harrington and the other presentations
Posted by lightprismtv on 11/17 at 11:12 AM
I just posted Rich’s presentation above. And yes, we’ll be linking all of them here.
Posted by Michelle Gallina on 11/17 at 11:26 AM
ProRes, P2, indeed any QT format support is a plus when under the gun. I’m using Media Composer most of the time, but am NLE-agnostic in that FCP is in my toolbox as well as Premiere.
Editors need to know the tools, and get it done. The message, the design, it all adds up to happy clients and $$. Keep learning, and you’ll be happy too.
Posted by Bill Nelson on 11/17 at 12:14 PM
Thanks so very much for the replays
Posted by lightprismtv on 11/18 at 10:22 AM
I see some nice 3rd party transitions here etc…but not for Mac? and suggestions ?
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 11/20 at 02:38 PM
Is Audition going to be part of CS when it is available on both OS? This would be quite important.
Posted by Andreas Urra on 02/16 at 04:47 AM
