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Keith Moreau
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June 3, 2012
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Premiere Pro CS6 and AVCHD - Should I upgrade or wait?

  • June 3, 2012
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Hi All

I currently use Premiere Pro 5.5.2 on a Mac Pro and OS 10.7.3. Most of my footage now is AVCHD, from various camcorders, including Sony FS100 as well as several Panasonic and Canon at 24P, 30P and 60P at 17mb/s to 28mp/s bitrates and LPCM and AVCHD audio. I also do use XDCAM EX and Canon DSLR H.264 footage.

I'm really wanting to upgrade to CS6, it looks fantastic, however I have heard reports of various bugs that make it work less efficiently or not at all with AVCHD footage. Maybe the latest upgrades fix these issues, but I'd like to get some input from people who have actually used CS6 with Mac OS 10.7 and AVCHD files. I don't want to transcode first, this was my primary reason to switch from FCP to Premiere Pro a couple of years ago, don't want to go back!

Thanks much for any and all advice you can give me.

-Keith

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    John T Smith
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    John T SmithCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 3, 2012

    Read http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1004369?tstart=0

    Adobe is working on the problem... I have not, yet, seen anyone say the problem is fixed

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    excited_Genie16B8
    Legend
    June 4, 2012

    Things got a little better with the 6.0.1 update, but the issue is essentially still there.  If you have spanned clips, you may want to wait a little longer because you really will need to transcode those to work in CS6.  If you don't have any spanned clips, then by all means, upgrade now.  CS6 offers some major improvements.  (And some annoyances, but overall still well worth it.)

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    Keith MoreauAuthor
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    January 11, 2013

    BlueScarecrow wrote:

    AVCHD files will never be supported by Adobe until it becomes profitable. Until then they will spin and dance and tell you your computer processor is too slow, or you don't have enough ram or you have the wrong operating system or you have to transcode or buy some more software or hardware... Just like Avid.

    I lost thousands of dollars with Avid and wound up throwing my Avid Media Composer in the garbage. Funny... there it seemed to fit fine.

    Complacency and greed killed Avid and now it looks like complacency and greed have their sights on Adobe.

    Remember: There is a season for all things.

    I wish you could see how hard we are working on this problem. When there are issues affecting a lot of our customers, we definitely know about it. If that issue is taking a long time to fix, know that there are often times other parties holding up the show. On behalf of Adobe, I apologize that this problem is persisting. We hope to find a fix as soon as possible.


    Kevin, thanks for your post. Wow, I posted this 7 months ago and the spanned AVCHD problem still isn't fixed in CS 6? That's incredible. Tell me I'm misinterpreting your answer.

    Thanks much!

    -Keith

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    NobodyVideo
    Participant
    June 3, 2012

    The user friendliness is awesome and the reason why I upgraded, but if AVCHD is your concern (which is the only format I work with these days)....there are no new improvements with this format.  Adobe Premiere implemented this format in 5.0 and some tweaks in 5.5.

    Best wishes to you.

    BTW:  I quit with the upgrade every two years game and bought the cloud version for $30 a month.

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