A good share of the complaints here on the forums for the last year+ have been from users with older gear and/or older little-used video formats. Why? Because writing code for every freaking out-of-date card/chip/format out there is a massive job and one that requires creating "translation" code to get from newer code to ancient unused code.
There of course are the comments "but they don't have to rebuild that code, why is it a problem?"
Well ... the problem is in the first paragraph. They've been systematically prepping for then starting to go through the app for code rebuild, and yes, they would have to spend time and testing to create new instructions ... and put them in every function of the app ... to translate new code into old to run some bit of gear or format if X hardware/format is involved.
So, yea, they've been dumping older stuff all over the app.
The Titler is an example ... it's one of the oldest bits of code in Premiere. By the time they rolled out the EGP, tThere was no way to 'update' the old Titler code other than completely rebuilding it.
So they built a new graphics/titles "machine". The Olde Tyme Titler is still available, but I sure wouldn't use it for anything. I'd guess the metrics are showing very low usage over the user-base, and when it gets to some X figure, I expect it will simply disappear. Nearly everything you could do in the old thing you can do in the new, and you can do things in the new you can't in the old.
Yea, I want more shapes to simply select from, who doesn't? But in general, the EGP/mogrts works.
I'm rather ... charmed ... by how fast my H.264 encodes are going now with the new use of the GPU for that. Even my "old" GTX1060/6-Gb card does a pretty good job of speeding up exports to H.264. That's been a great help. It's the second item off my "top 20", the first they adopted being changing ALL the keyboard shortcuts that used to work only with the olde Titler to just being a "graphics" key-short, so they work with either the Titler or the EGP/mogrts work as well.
Now ... if they'd start with the other 18 things still on my Top Twenty list ... 😉
Neil
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