Hi All,

    Long time absent and happy to be back. I too feel the same sentiment on upgrading to 2019 although I did find out one thing nice. I can get a realtime ram preview done on it with the first click.

    For the duration of 2018 I have had a ridiculous time trying to get a realtime RAM preview. Usually I have to stop the loop and start it again before it works or, purge each time I want to try (sometimes that doesn't even work). There's nothing particularly problematic with the system it's a Ryzen 2700X with 32GB Ram and a Samsung 250GB SSD for a Cache. It should play 1080p back with no problems once it's in the RAM cache. Kind of reminds me of the pre-renders I used to do when AE was in versions 3.1-PRE CC.

    Not sure if anyone else encounters that little gem of an issue, I've gotten around it by pre-rendering the longer comps and cutting the resolution to 50% (even skipping a frame). It irritates the hell out of me.

    I'm starting to edge towards the more conservative folks who wait till the first point upgrade before they jump to the next version. If only to save time on installing the scripts and plugins.

    - Robert Houghton

Side note Jim - don't upgrade that Mac to Mojave, as it breaks all nVidia CUDA workflows and eGPUs . Might be time to start considering a PC, but I don't want to start THAT discussion. FWIW I'm using both 2019 packages in production because I was forced to for various clients who upgraded... because they don't know better. But I haven't had any showstopping bugs yet. Of course and obviously I have many previous versions still installed for legacy support

On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 11:28 AM Jim Curtis <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

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:

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2556384

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