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Subject: Re: [AE] AE and Premiere brilliance!
From: Jim Curtis <jpcurtis@me.com>
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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:54:10 -0500
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On Apr 27, 2012, at 1:33 PM, Todd Kopriva wrote:

>> And no looking back?  Happy with the switch?
>=20
> We're happy that Jim has switched, if only because he's really good at =
giving us constructive feedback. ;-)


Thanks, Todd!  For everybody else, I think he may be referring to my =
post on the Adobe Pr forum with my wish list for Pr CS7.

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4363563#4363563

Tony, I'm very happy with the switch.  I got a CUDA card for my Mac, and =
the real-time is impressive.  Steve Oakley here did a pretty good job =
convincing me to get the Quadro 4000.

There are still some shortcomings, which I put in my post, but I have =
discovered that Ae and Pr work really well together.

I even use Pr to open my old FCP7 projects, and FCP7 projects that I =
still get handed off fairly regularly.  There are many advantages to =
using Pr over FCP.  One of the main ones for me is sending Sequences to =
AME for encoding, while I continue to work in Pr.

A recurring thread on the Adobe Pr forum is that Mac performance isn't =
as good, reliable, snappy, etc. as with Windows systems.  My own worst =
experiences are related to shuttling, (now Skimming, by Apple).  =
Depending on the codec, I can drag my CTI in the timeline, and either =
get very slow updating or none at all.  This comes and goes, and my =
guess it's related to some background process.  And the performance with =
a Kona card is abjectly miserable.  But, supposedly that's getting a new =
life in CS6, and that's something I anticipate eagerly.

There is ONE THING that FCP does far better (IMO): Track Mattes.  I keep =
hoping the squeaky wheel factor will kick in soon.  Maybe by CS6.5? =
Please?  Pretty please?

Jim


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