those Uservoice forums are going away, like the After Effects one did

I love this simple explanation, Warren. Editing H.264 and HEVC natively is garbage. I like taking advantage of smart rendering for the main purpose of fixing errors after watching the show. I also like the performance a lot more. Most editors might not know about this stuff, even though experts espouse that workflow.

Why I like ProRes: Usually, on watch down, I will find stupid mistakes (annoying typos!) that need fixing. These fixes are only a second long or so. With smart rendering, I rerender that small section, and my show render goes faster than rerendering in H.264, as it is a copying process rather than an encoding one. I save a lot of time this way.

As a former linear editor, I appreciate playback performance, and intermediate codecs come close to that real-time expectation. Delays in playback might not annoy some, but a delay in playing back a stream or two of video or video with a simple effect bothers me. Intermediate codecs avoid that issue.

I set up a transcode on ingest for Project Settings and get to work immediately, as transcodes happen in the background with Media Encoder. Similarly, you can create proxies as you begin a project using an intermediate codec. You see FCPX creating proxies on ingest by default. You can do the same in Premiere Pro; however, it is not a default. Resolve, and other NLEs have the option too.

Have a good weekend!
Kevin

And ... if you're running an Nvidia GPU, there's a ton of problem with any driver past 517.40. Green screens or partial green screens, stuttering playback, all sorts of things.

Neil

I know, a number of mine were migrated, but thousands of users didn't get a single migrated post. it's horrible, like they just don't matter to adobe.

it's possible, yes. but even windows movie maker can export movies in minutes, not half an hour or more. I refuse to keep myself in an echo chamber, and I realize that makes me devil's advocate, but this is the only program where that sentiment would stand;
it's possible, but requires hacks, internal knowledge, knowing hardware specs, etc. On other programs, if a render takes half an hour, you made a mistake, or you're using incredibly heavy effects and are prepared to take a coffee break because you did it on purpose.

I want adobe's suite to do well. I really want it to be worth my money- but their competition is $300 for a perpetual VFX, color grading, and editing suite lisence.

I guess what I'm saying is "possible" for premiere is "basic and assumed functionality" for other programs, and adobe users are getting sick of paying more for less, just so their workflow remains intact.