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Why Premiere is behind from Edius in profomance wise, i've both on same system.On 1080i timline the edius is more stable than ppro. Why is that? I am patroling all over the web since for 2 months to get some facts on Edius vs ppro.I've been working with ppro since 7/8 years..... Often people teased me that one day u'll going to switch to this EDIOT(edius).Frankly i dont want to don't need to. But Adobe should have to work hard to keep the legend alive.Back to my question why eduis works well than ppro?

A new plug-in for Premiere Pro has been released that uses the x264 encoder to export to H.264 and H.264 Blu-ray.  I've had a chance to use it a fair bit, and the quality is excellent compared to Premiere Pro's built-in MainConcept H.264 encoder.  It's also fast -- as fast as the Premiere Pro plug-in architecture will allow.Details here:x264 PRO | Adobe Creative Suite H.264 EncoderDisclaimer: As a beta tester for this plug-in, I received a license for x264 PRO as a gift.  But I wouldn't announce the plug-in here if it didn't deliver it's promised quality.Jeff

Todd,You are on record stating that one of the key benefits of CC is the flexibility it gives Adobe to make updates available.Can you explain how owning or renting a license makes any difference at all to update policies? To me it looks like a BS argument, but maybe I'm wrong.I also fail to see the relevancy how point releases for Acrobat, Flash or Dreamweaver need to be aligned with AE or PR. That is exactly what Adobe did in the past, there were 'regular' but infrequent point releases for DW and FL that had no relevancy to AE or PR. How will that change in the future?What is the difference between CC7 and CC8, a version upgrade, that depends on the rental license model that can not be achieved with a perpetual license? I think the argument is somewhat akin to owning a house or renting a house. Home improvements on the exteriror are done by the owner. The difference is when these improvements are carried out. If you rent, you have to wait for the owner to decide when he starts, if you

Interesting...    http://www.eoshd.com/content/11534/new-h-265-codec-test-prores-4444-quality-1-file-sizeBefore you ask, no - CC doesn't support the footage.

Hello all,Forgive me if I'm posting this in the wrong forum. I'd like to know if what I'm proposing has been done before, and if so what some of the examples look like.My idea is to embed clickable hotspots over a video. For example, we have a shot of a truck rolling down the highway. As it continues driving, different hotspots pop up over various parts of the truck, like axles, transmission, engines, etc. These hotspots can then be clickable, and a small tooltip/bubble pops up with a description about that part. As the video continues playing, different hotspots continue to be generated and available.I've been poking around all over the web looking for either examples or programs that enable the effect. I've found that most "interactive videos" are based around two premises: shopping from within the video and pick your own storyline. Neither of which is necessarily what I'm looking for, so I've begun thinking that this might an After Effects/Flash based affair. I can use After Effects

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What are people using to encode video for HTML5? The players I have looked at want .mp4, .ogg, and .webm. Media Encoder (At least the CS5 version) doesn't do the last 2. I tried the Miro encoder, but that has no controls, and has quality issues. I'm looking for a professional solution (hopefully not crazy expensive) for OSX.

16 months after introduction of CC, I'm curious to know your feelings about the rental and bondage model of CC.Was it worth it?I know that by not going the rental route but remaining on CS6 Master Collection, I saved $ 1,500 (based on European prices) but forfeited the new 'features and bugs'. I'm glad I did not spend all that money on rent, but how about you? Did you get your money's worth from the rental? In hindsight, was it worth it? And in 3 or 5 years time, what do you think, after spending another $ 1,800 (US, 3 years) or $ 3,200 (Europe, 3 years) up to $ 3,000 (US, 5 years) or $ 5,400 (Europe, 5 years) and having to pay each month for eternity?Of course, if your boss foots the bill, you don't worry about that, but what if you need to pay the bill? Still an attractive deal?I found this diagram on the internet and that pretty much says it all:This does not take into account the possibility to BUY from MainConcept or Cineform extra plug-ins that add codecs for new camera formats n

Bit of fun for our amusement. Add to the thread by QUOTING what you consider is a lazy question from a lazy poster...Lack of hardware or system details  wont usually count...and be careful about second language  situations.Rule: NO discussions in the thread.  Let the quote speak for itself and stand alone.Be careful it doesnt back fire on you

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Here are some Premiere Pro and Encore Tutorials... A mix of old (back to CS5) and new for CC.I use Windows, so there is almost nothing here for the Mac user.First, some general information on project and computer setup.Hardware page https://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere/hardware_forumCS6 page https://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere/premierepro_previous.For CS5 and CS6 (maybe later) the easy way to insure that your video and project match-See 2nd post for pictures of NEW ITEM process http://forums.adobe.com/message/3776153-And a FAQ on sequence setting http://forums.adobe.com/message/3804341.Not everything uses CUDA hardware acceleration... read thishttps://blogs.adobe.com/creativecloud/cuda-mercury-playback-engine-and-adobe-premiere-pro/New cards come out faster than Adobe can test and certify... if your card has 1Gig of video ram it should work... but do be aware that video drivers SOMETIMES cause problems, so you may need to update your video driver at the vendor site.Go to

Would this be a fair and relevant topic for the Video lounge?I thought so because I'm sure many of you spent more time than I do in front of your screen/s doing work or trying to fix things. I wonder how many of you have this problem. I'm about 50cm from my two 19" screens, my chair is set at its lowest my eyes are level with the top 1/4 of the screen when  I sit straight (This is not the best but the screens are touching the top of my desk unit so can't go any higher A mate of mine told me to put 4 bricks, one on each corner of my desk!  I will have to do more than talking about it, but sometimes sharing situations brings positive results from others' experience.

Since I don't feel it would be right to take over the thread started by Steven, I start a new one. This thread is going to be dedicated to producing a movie as a result of those voluneers' joint efforts, who are members of Adobe Community.The main objective for this project is to collaboratively create final product from scratch: from defining the project scope to finally publish a movie somewhere, be it a dedicated website or just YouTube or Vimeo, as we'll define later.This main objective is not the only project's goal. It is assumed, participants will be able to work on a particular tasks so as to improve their own skills in a desired field via sharing creativity, knowledge and skills.I also hope we'll gain the Forum moderators' support so as to be able to appropriately update this original post so that others, who might arrive here later, will be able to understand at which stage the project is that time.Now let's try to define the project scope.By 15 October we reached our first m

About 2 months ago, I purchased Premiere Pro CS6 retail box version from Best Buy.  With everything going to the CC, I can't get upgrades unless I join the CC.  This is NOT something I want to do!  I would like to know if the chroma keying and image stabilization in Sony Vegas pro 12 are just as good or similar to Premiere Pro? I already read about how to transfer the product license on the Adobe website.  If I decide to make the switch, I will list my Premiere Pro on Ebay. Another reason why I may want to get Vegas Pro is because I found out about the AVCHD bug in Premiere AFTER I purchased it.  It has been over a year and Adobe has still not fixed the bug. I have a feeling they will never fix the bug because of the new CC vesion.  I am currently about half way through the classroom in a book from Adobe and have not yet edited any of my own videos.  My video camera is a Canon Vixia HF S20 and my computer is a new Dell XPS 8500 with Core i7 and 12 GB

Hopefully, each of us has people we look up to and admire. My #1 guy in the video world that fits that bill is Tim Kolb. He has been a source of information and inspiration for me since I first started shooting video. Not only that, but he has steered business my way as well.Tim has a new blog and he is posting free title templates. He is about to release an entirely new type/style library also. He hasn't finalized a price, but my guess is that it will be inexpensive and a real no-brainer. It will likely be something that you buy just because it saves a bunch of time when you start creating titles.In any case, check out his blog site here.His older library has been available, for free, from my site for many years. You can still pick it up there. http://stevengotz.com/title_styles.html.htmlEnjoy!

Noobs that refuse to RTFMFCP converts that persist in converting to intermediate formatsNoobs that use non-editable material and complain all the timeJungfrau marathon after 37.8 km

Dears,since Debugmode Frameserver is not working in Premiere CS5, also Avisynth is not working with CS5 version nor ProCoder and CCE doesn't have export plugin for Premiere CS5, my question is do we have option to frameserve Premiere timeline to some external coder or only encoding workflow (for DVD - MPEG2) is using Adobe Media Encoder?Please, share your experience with encoding and frameserving.Thanks.

I got a call from a shooter yesterday saying he plans to getone of these cameras (because he can use the lenses from his 16mm).He was asking for my opinion, and I couldn't offer one.Does anyone have any direct experience with this camera?http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/964117-REG/blackmagic_design_blackmagic_pocket_cinema_camera.htmlhttp://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicpocketcinemacamera

I am cutting a 30 second healthy option lite bread TVC . Shot yesterday...and a 15 second cut down of the same.And a 15 second cut down of a 30 second  cycle TV I produced 2  months ago.Also In preprod for 2 garden product TVCs. (live shoot plus 2 &  3D animation)Fixing my out-of-phase Wang Banger.Wasting time and procrastinating on the Adobe ForumsIts raining and cold outside!

OK, so I actually bought a house that has a garage. Same thing, right? Just think, a place to hang a green screen and attach lights to the ceiling. And just think, an office without a bed in it, just like the old days before I moved back to California over four years ago. There isn't really a way to put in a permanent smooth transition from wall to floor like I had hoped, but I can hang a cloth in a place where I will be able to control the light.  I may even bite the bullet and bring in an electrician to put some heavier electrical wiring into a new heavy duty breaker box run from the main.Finally, someone accepted our offer and didn't hold my need for a VA loan against me. These folks have both daughters in the service and preferred to sell to a veteran instead of complaining that it is harder to deal with a VA loan. The Veterans Administration does make it tougher, but not that bad if you don't have termites or black mold, or dry rot.It will be a few weeks before we can close,

Well, I was a nervous wreck today ( this morning up to now ....cause now its BEER THIRTY YIPEE ! TIME to relax )Reason for nervous wrecklessness is I went to micro center in MN. area to pick out new computer components and see if they could build it for me, and be within my tight budget.It took about 3 hours . But luckily the sales guy I met up with was fantastic and very cool.. and knew a LOT of stuff about high end machines and monitors etc.. through his own computer use ( serious gamer but aware of video editing and photoshop on pro level ). He did a lot to lessen my anxiety... and between us we think we got a good system for starting out. I can add stuff ( drives and better monitor(s) later as needed ).This is what I got...and I will pick it up in 3-4 days from now...and it will weigh about 40 pounds !  Yikes !  It's HUGE !After I pick it up and bring home I'm gonna install cs6 hard copy creative suite... update both windows and CS6 to newest versions and patches and fixe

Per Craig's suggestion, here is the thread for discussing photographing an egg.I had no idea it would be as engrossing as it was, and it is getting late, but here are the shots, completely unedited. I will resize them and post them to my web site for discussion later. I should have time tomrrow night.These are just screen prints from Bridge. Some repeats, and some that just didn't work. But these are the shots I took.Funny thing is, I shot RAW plus JPG so I would not have to "fix" anything to show the pictures. I decided to shoot Monochrome since it is an egg, and I put it on a white foam core with a different style foam core behind it. The camera showed me monochrome. But when I transferred the images to my PC, I looked in Bridge and could clearly see that the color balance on the RAW files was horrid. So, my next investigation is to determine if that has any bearing on the monochrome image. Do I need to white balance for the lights I am using before I shoot monochrome? I would not th

If I select within Pr (CS6): Help > Updates...here is the resulting update check (as expected):.But...if I directly run Application Manager either from the Start Menu shortcut,or by running the executable file (PDapp.exe) in this location:C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\OOBE\PDApp\core\Here is the message I get:(Not logged in with my Adobe ID.)'Sup with that?notes:This is the first time I have tried to run AAM since this series of eventson 7/6 (I was logged in with my Adobe ID at the time)The steps I took on 7/6:- Ran Adobe Application Manager from the Start Menu shortcut.- Normal AAM interface appeared (as pictured in first image above).- Once connected, the AAM interface immediately disappeared,and a small progress bar appeared stating:"Updating Adobe Application Manager".(No screen shot available)- At about 50-75% completion of the progress bar, an icon appearedon my desktop called: "Adobe Creative Cloud".- At about 95% completion of the progress bar, the update stalled

Perpetual License version (Not Creative Cloud rental)Creative Suite Help / CS6 product downloadshttp://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/cs6-product-downloads.htmlIgnore the erroneous message stating:"If you purchased a CS6 product...""You'll need your CS6 serial number to complete the installation."This is a trial.  No previous purchase is required, and noexisting serial number is required to complete installation.No Adobe ID or login is required for download.http://forums.adobe.com/message/5437370#5437370_______________________________________________________Here is an alternate, slightly more complicated download location:Adobe CS6 Trial Downloads: Direct Linkshttp://prodesigntools.com/adobe-cs6-direct-download-links.htmlBe sure to read "Note: Very Important Instructions".(Requires Adobe ID for download)If you do already own a license for C6, all of these trial downloadscan be authorized online by using your existing serial number(s).Perfect for backing up your boxed D