I'm sort of in the same boat.. I don't use PR that often, but with AE v16 (2019) I just can't find the stability i need in certain EASY tasks..
I've started 2 projects now, since it's been out, and I've TRIED to use 2019 for them.. however little weird things happen that literally halt all production in 2019.
For instance. I bring in a 2 layer Illustrator logo.. One layer is the "logo" and the other layer is the "text". This normally doesn't have an issue.. and I've tried to emulate the issue from a base start, and it doesn't happen.. yet if I open that file I was working in, into 2019, it continues to happen, even though the comps are identical and reference the same AI file. Basically one of the layers doesn't even display its contents.. and somehow, when I move that one layer around, it "sometimes" acts like it's parented with constraints to the other layer. (move it around freely, but when I get to a certain position, the other layer acts like it's parented and will attach and follow" Dropping a 3rd duplicate layer of the same AI file will not fix anything, it'll show empty, and AE actually crashes, every time.. This seems to happen more readily when I'm using 2 displays for the interface (comp viewer on my left screen, everything else on my middle screen)
That, along with finding the timecode issues when the update first came out, and still not seeing it fixed with a hotfix patch, has me leery of using anything in 2019 for a while..
Sucks, because now I've got 2014, 2018, and 2019 installed all to use different portions of the programs that are better at different things.. 2018 being the main work environment, but 2014 being around to wrangle heavy renders with multi-frame rendering, and 2019 being around to use the Mocha AE plugin mainly.
I wish each version didn't introduce these showstopping bugs in the first year it's around.. It just doesn't give me much faith in new versions being anything to "flock to"
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On 11/30/2018 11:54:53 AM, Ross Shain <ae-list@media-motion.tv> wrote:
Hey Jim,
I can not answer your Adobe questions... but just wanted you and others to know that the Mocha Pro 2019 plug-in will work with older versions of AE (and Premiere back to CC 2014. Most know that Mocha Pro adds some cool features not found in Mocha AE. Mocha Pro annual sale ends tonight at midnight.
Sorry for the long post. If you’re busy, just ignore this. Part of it is griping.
I wonder how many others here are in the same boat.
My favorite feature of Ae CC 2019, and the ONLY new feature that interests me is the Mocha Plug-in. I’ve been using Ae 2019 just for that one feature, but doing everything else in CC 2018. Pr has one new feature only I’m interested in, and that’s the enhanced Lumetri Color effect. The enhanced Puppet Tool may come in handy at some point. Otherwise, meh.
I use Pr as much as Ae. If I want to use Dynamic Link, I have to use the same versions. IOW, I can’t use Ae 2018 with Pr 2019, and expect DL to work. I can’t even copy clips in Pr and paste them in Ae if the versions don’t match.
I made a mistake by testing Pr 2019 for one “small” project for one client for whom I’d done about ten videos in Pr 2018. It worked OK, but there are still some bugs that make me reluctant to commit to all of CC 2019. Honestly, I can’t remember what they were other than Pr taking an extremely long time to launch before getting to the Open dialog.
So, I got a new project that requires me to use footage from my previous ten projects. I started it in Pr 2018. Everything was fine except when I needed to access footage in that Pr 2019 project. Not a show stopper. I just had to launch the Pr 2019 project, and do an XML export of my master Sequence and b-roll and interview select Sequences, and then import that into Pr 2018, losing all the animated masking I did in Pr 2019 (quite a bit). I was pleased to see some of my Lumetri Color effects were retained.
I wish Adobe would figure out how to Save As... a previous version in Pr as they have for Ae, or allow us to import Sequences from a later version of Pr, or use Dynamic Link between different versions. Alas.
Anyway… I’m posting to ask if anybody else has committed to CC 2019 and having good success with both Pr and Ae. If you’re experiencing issues, what are they? Are there workarounds?
My biggest fear is encountering a job-killing bug that will inhibit timely delivery of a paying project (see link below).
I’m on Mac High Sierra with a Nvidia Titan GPU.
Jim C.
Posts like this aren’t encouraging:
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Ross ShainChief Product Officer: Mocha
