http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ Videomaker Community Forums » Forum: Adobe - Recent Topics en Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:35:40 +0000 http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/what-is-best-computer-for-adobe-creative-suite-5-production-premium#post-59136 Thu, 27 May 2010 19:13:25 +0000 Robertr 59136@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I've decided to bite the bullet and buy Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium. What do you think is the best computer and/or computer configuration for this software? The computer will be largely dedicated to video production work.</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/so-far-not-so-good#post-58148 Sun, 02 May 2010 09:16:40 +0000 composite1 58148@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>In anticipation of upgrading to Adobe CS5, I downloaded the trial ver's of Premiere and AFX two of the programs I use the most. I have a fast connection and it still took nearly three hours to download the two programs and install them. Okay, I could deal with that. </p> <p>Next, I went through all of Adobe's new anti-piracy crap and setup the program as a 'trial version' though everything is set for you to just buy it ($600 bucks for one program? Not happening.) Anyway at start up I get a warning that I have to update all of my GPU drivers in order to take advantage of the MPE. No prob. Just about a 15 minute divert over to the NVIDIA site to update my drivers. </p> <p>Now, of course my GPU's aren't on the list of compatible drivers (why should they be when NVIDIA can get another couple of grand out of me to upgrade?) But, according to the list as of the 1st of May there was some suggestion that they had expanded support for legacy products. By the 2nd, all that info magically disappeared. Whatever, I needed to update the drivers anyway.</p> <p>So, I go back into premiere and though I don't have GPU support, I at least want to see how the software version of the MPE works. I choose the 'Open Project' option to see how my HDV project load times are supposed to decrease and check some other things. I get a message that 'The project cannot be opened due to the video codec cannot be found'. Hah? Dude I've got codecs up the friggin' ying yang! Whaddaya' mean it can't be found?</p> <p>Fine. I go into the 'Start New Project' section so I can just load some stuff and go from there. Survey says, XXX (insert angry buzzer sound)! No go. At least now I know why it 'couldn't find the codecs'. The only thing Adobe bothered to load was 'DV' settings! If you want to capture, DV is all you get! Now I dug through the project settings and yeah there's stuff for anything Panasonic has out involving DVC whatever even in the HD flavors. But if you want HDV, AVCHD, XDCAM or anything else, fuggeddaboutit!</p> <p>Well at the moment, I can't even test the software for what I need to do. Hell, I don't care how well it handles 'effin' DV! I don't need the MPE to do DV work. Well I still have 29 days left to get some answers and hopefully test this thing.</p> <p>Next, I'll try the AFX and give you a 'blow by blow'. Hopefully that will work out better. So far, I am thoroughly unimpressed.</p> <p>Well, after getting the trial version fired up I get to the initial project screen and si</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/impressions-of-cs5#post-57315 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:54:20 +0000 composite1 57315@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I just watched the Launch promo for CS5 and I'm not blown away, but they've definitely got some 'wow' factors in some of the improvements and tools. Off the top of my head things that grabbed me were:</p> <p>Mercury Playback Engine (Premiere Pro)</p> <p>Puppet Pins, Background removal/replacement tools, brush mixing (Photoshop)</p> <p>Auto Rotoscoping, RAM Preview capable of fully using available RAM (AFX)</p> <p>Codeless creation and importation of designs from Suite Programs into Flash and Dreamweaver.</p> <p>Looks like it will be worth the $900 bucks to upgrade from CS3! BTW, you can catch the promo yourselves at adobe.com. Let me know your thoughts on this.</p> <p> </p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/cs5-online-preview#post-57012 Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:56:13 +0000 composite1 57012@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>For those of you who are long time fans of Adobe products or those looking to make the move in that direction, on April 12th Adobe will give a preview of CS5 and its new features including the potentially phenomenal 'Mercury Playback Engine'. To register for the preview go to:</p> <p><a href="http://cs5launch.adobe.com/">http://cs5launch.adobe.com/</a></p> <p>There are limited spots left so sign up soon!</p> http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/are-adobe-product-weaki-dont-think-so#post-56546 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:49:09 +0000 SargeHero 56546@http://www.videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I actually didn't have a complete idea of the power of the Adobe products. Check out this video</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://tv.adobe.com/watch/customer-stories-video-film-and-audio/adobe-and-avatar?trackingid=FDKNJ" rel="nofollow">http://tv.adobe.com/watch/customer-stories-video-film-and-audio/adobe-and-avatar?trackingid=FDKNJ</a></p> <p>I will definitely use this video to tell clients that I have similar video editor tools that Avatar used to make the movie. I will consider adding this video for my next wave of promo DVD. </p> <p>Enjoy</p> <p> </p>