premiere cs3 update availible!!!!! P2 now supported!

Got a link?

The only new downloads are for AP 3.0.1 at least for a Mac, plus no announcements that I could locate

What's the skinny?
 
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Use the "Update" option on the "Help" menu in any CS3 program--the update will show up there.

Oh, and W00T! Just downloaded and installed. Works AWESOME. Just as a test, I stacked three 720/24pN clips on top of each other, and did about 50% opacity on the top two clips. Played back very smooth, only dropping a few frames--and these clips are all running off a USB drive! I imagine a RAID setup, or even a single SATA would be like buttah.

Another interesting thing is that you can set rendering to Uncompressed 10-bit. And it would appear from the opening project setup window that ALL formats are indeed supported. I think the program will even remove pulldown from 24p and 24pa clips... very cool.

EDIT: Just tested with 1080/24p (not 24pa) footage in a 1080/24p project. Even with the non-advanced variety of the 24p clips, PPro will remove the pulldown. Clips show with a red render indicator in the timeline, but still playback realtime. I'm not sure if 24pa clips would show the render bar--I don't have any to test. I would hazard a guess that the 24p clips would not show a render bar in a 1080/60i project.

I'm giddy...
 
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No support in AE at all. You just get place holder when importing a PP project.

A bummer but not the end of the world considering how fast I can edit the mxf files. I also just got the new release of Magic bullet LOOKS and it works great in premiere so I'm not too concerned. Worst case is having to use raylight to edit your composition in AE. If you need to work with a few files in AE just save as uncompressed Tiff then bring in to AE.

Once they get P2 intigrated through out all the Adobe products that'll be unstoppable.

Right now I'd say you get native performance from PP CS3 that you get from Edius and that is an awesome thing.
 
Anyone know if the current trial of Premiere carries the new update or if it can be updated? I'll give it a run when I get home as I'm eager to test this. If it works like it sounds like its working I'll be getting upgrading my copy of CS2 pronto. Although the after effects support would be nice...
 
The update works great and they fixed the keyboard custimization bug too!! I tried to export an EDL from my Raylight project and open it in a new mxf project but when you go to "link Media" it crashes premiere! I wish that would work but wasnt counting on it.
 
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I tried to export an EDL from my Raylight project and open it in a new mxf project but when you go to "link Media" it crashes premiere! I wish that would work but wasnt counting on it.
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I don't use Raylight, so I can't confirm this, but maybe you have to uninstall Raylight first. It would seem to me that maybe the import modules for Raylight and for the native support in PPro are competing, and leading to the crash.
 
Can someone with the update test something? I want to know what bitrate it uses for 720 24p footage- the HVX records 720pn 24 at 40mbps- will Premiere do this too?
For 720p24 and/or 720pn24?

You could do this: shoot a quick 720PN 24 shot. Import it, and then export it with the DVCPRO HD setting (or whatever Premiere calls it). Then compare the bitrates.

Thanks! Excitement!!
 
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I don't use Raylight, so I can't confirm this, but maybe you have to uninstall Raylight first. It would seem to me that maybe the import modules for Raylight and for the native support in PPro are competing, and leading to the crash.
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I will have to try that but I did try something else that might give some help. I put a fake timeline together in a MXF 720 24p timeline with MXFs and exported an EDL. Then started a new MXF 720 24p timeline and imported the EDL, That worked fine but when I went to link a mxf file again, it crashed Premiere. Can anyone else reproduce this?

Thanks,
John G.
 
Funkycoldg said:
I will have to try that but I did try something else that might give some help. I put a fake timeline together in a MXF 720 24p timeline with MXFs and exported an EDL. Then started a new MXF 720 24p timeline and imported the EDL, That worked fine but when I went to link a mxf file again, it crashed Premiere. Can anyone else reproduce this?

Thanks,
John G.
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What about instead of an EDL, using AAF? Should be available from the "Project" menu. EDLs kick it old school, and I think are a little more tuned towards tape-based acquisition. They're also designed to recreate a timeline--not a project. AAF is much more modern, and really goes hand-in-hand with MXF technology. Plus, AAFs are designed to recreate an entire project--not just a timeline.

If that doesn't work, then I'd say you've probably ID'ed a bug. Congrats--you get a cookie :)
 
Haha thanks. Yeah the AAF worked on both but I couldnt replace the clips in the Raylight project with MXFs unfortunatly. Thanks for all of your help!
 
I guess the only other option--though time-consuming--would be to manually replace each clip using the new Alt+drag Replace functionality. You'd have to create a new native project, import the Raylight project/sequence, and then import your MXFs (using the native capability). Then, assuming you didn't rename your MXF clips in your original Raylight sequence, match up the newly-imported MXFs with the instances in the timeline, and Replace them. Actually, I think Alt+Shift+drag replaces the clip and does a match frame based on TC of the two clips, so things should sync up properly.

Monotonous, indeed.
 
Oh man, I have almost a whole movie edited on Raylight Demo, I'm going to see if I can swap over to Adobe's software via an aaf export, or just importing the project into a new project file (with the correct project settings on the other end)
 
I Just tried it, every time I open up an old project file, or try to import it into a new one I get a program crash (in windows). This could be bad. I can't even make an AAF of the old version because it locks up before I can do anything.

!!!Be warned if you have Raylight DEMO installed. Your old Project files may be unable to open or work on!!!

I'll try removing the plugin see if that fixes it.
 
You might just have to buy Raylight. Let me get this correct, you used the raylight DEMO so you could edit your feature and now you want to use your edl in regular premiere so you don't have to buy Raylight.

I might be wrong but that's what it sounds like. Not like I'm the moral police or anything..... :)
 
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