yagfxg33k
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A friend of mine recently upgraded his 1.5.1 version to 2.0 and offered to let me try it out on his system. So, I loaded up a little 5 minute montage project from 1.5.1 onto my Firewire drive and headed over to his place.
The first thing I attempted to do was to just open the 1.5.1 project in 2.0. This worked fine but 2.0 seemed very sluggish. So I started a new project with the obligatory HDV settings and imported the project. This seemed to work a bit better. Unfortunately, all of the conform and preview files were no longer any good because they changed the format so I had to re-render the short.
After re-rendering the short, the previews were viewable but VERY choppy. Just to confirm that this was not an issue with his machine I loaded the old project into 1.5.1 on his machine and sure enough, it was as smooth as silk.
Now, 2.0 claims native HDV editing and they have built their own custom system for doing this. 1.5.1 used the CineForm codec to accomplish this. So, based on that, I thought that maybe it was just having a hard time with the 1.5.1 media files so we decided to re-capture the footage from the camera using 2.0.
Here we ran into our first lovely glitch. 2.0 does not support auto-scene detect. 1.5.1 performs this admirably. 2.0 flat out will not do it. And, I confirmed this with Adobe. They suggested I buy Cineform Aspect HD to do this... I suggested they fix their software...
So with that in mind, I went into the original project and exported a batch capture list from the clips in that project. Using that, I was able to batch capture the footage off of the camera again. Once this was done and the project was re-rendered, I looked at the footage in preview mode. It was MUCH better. But it still had choppy areas in it.
I closed the project, re-booted and opened the project again and got the same results. Additionally, the project load time in 2.0 was more then double that of 1.5.1.
Now, 2.0 has some nice new features - Clip notes that let you create a PDF file that you send to a client. They review it and stop it when they want to type a comment. Then they ouput a little text file that 2.0 imports and then creates markers in the footage with their comments for you. The only downside to this is that you can only create these for a sequence or the entire project. I would prefer to be able to select a set of clips and use those rather then create a sequence just for review purposes.
There is also multi-camera support but I don't care about that. They did add the ability to control the ease in/out curves for keyframes which is one thing I really like (Lightwave has all kinds of curve control for this kind of thing).
The bottom line: Just say no to version X.0. Until they resolve these issues I will be sticking with 1.5.1.
The first thing I attempted to do was to just open the 1.5.1 project in 2.0. This worked fine but 2.0 seemed very sluggish. So I started a new project with the obligatory HDV settings and imported the project. This seemed to work a bit better. Unfortunately, all of the conform and preview files were no longer any good because they changed the format so I had to re-render the short.
After re-rendering the short, the previews were viewable but VERY choppy. Just to confirm that this was not an issue with his machine I loaded the old project into 1.5.1 on his machine and sure enough, it was as smooth as silk.
Now, 2.0 claims native HDV editing and they have built their own custom system for doing this. 1.5.1 used the CineForm codec to accomplish this. So, based on that, I thought that maybe it was just having a hard time with the 1.5.1 media files so we decided to re-capture the footage from the camera using 2.0.
Here we ran into our first lovely glitch. 2.0 does not support auto-scene detect. 1.5.1 performs this admirably. 2.0 flat out will not do it. And, I confirmed this with Adobe. They suggested I buy Cineform Aspect HD to do this... I suggested they fix their software...
So with that in mind, I went into the original project and exported a batch capture list from the clips in that project. Using that, I was able to batch capture the footage off of the camera again. Once this was done and the project was re-rendered, I looked at the footage in preview mode. It was MUCH better. But it still had choppy areas in it.
I closed the project, re-booted and opened the project again and got the same results. Additionally, the project load time in 2.0 was more then double that of 1.5.1.
Now, 2.0 has some nice new features - Clip notes that let you create a PDF file that you send to a client. They review it and stop it when they want to type a comment. Then they ouput a little text file that 2.0 imports and then creates markers in the footage with their comments for you. The only downside to this is that you can only create these for a sequence or the entire project. I would prefer to be able to select a set of clips and use those rather then create a sequence just for review purposes.
There is also multi-camera support but I don't care about that. They did add the ability to control the ease in/out curves for keyframes which is one thing I really like (Lightwave has all kinds of curve control for this kind of thing).
The bottom line: Just say no to version X.0. Until they resolve these issues I will be sticking with 1.5.1.
