Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 Adds Support for Panasonic P2 ***NOW AVAILABLE***

I am very very happy with this! I just hope it supports AE not too long after Premiere. I wonder how it will work with monitoring out of Premiere? It's also a good thing it will support ALL modes of the HVX!
 
Ursa said:
I would LOVE to be able to edit natively (SPEEEEED) in Premiere.
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Curious comment -- you'll likely be able to edit much faster in raylight than in Adobe's native system, because Raylight has adjustable playback quality levels (i.e., red, blue, green, and yellow).
 
Barry_Green said:
How short of a period of time though? I mean, optimistic as it may sound, who's to say they haven't been working on OnLocation Mac since the day they bought the app?

I have no specific knowledge of, or reason for, such optimism, but I'm just sayin' that they've had Serious Magic for a long time now, so maybe they do have plans for that and maybe they've been working on it for a while?

This does seem a pretty short interval for an upgrade, that's true. But so what -- it's great news! :)
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If it happens, it's great news for Mac users. (REALLY great news.) I'm just recalling Serious Magic saying there were steep obstacles to getting it onto a Mac (even if I don't remember exactly what they were). Just seems like a pretty short period of time.
 
I have no specific reason for optimism on that front; I just know that they were very aware that people have been clamoring for Mac support for a long time, so maybe they've been working on it for a long time? I don't know. No solid info here. Ooh, I'll page Mikko out at IBC and see if he can ask the Adobe folks for any statement or update!
 
Mikko Wilson said:
Adobe pem will support ALL HVX200 P2 formats!! AE to follow shortly! All free updates.
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Mikko Wilson said:
All P2 support in prem will be released simultaniously for PC and Mac. OnLocation an Encore wont be updated, \"yet\".
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Sounds promising!
 
Barry_Green said:
Curious comment -- you'll likely be able to edit much faster in raylight than in Adobe's native system, because Raylight has adjustable playback quality levels (i.e., red, blue, green, and yellow).
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Well I believe editing MXFs should be much faster. My 3 year old centrino laptop (1.2 ghz) is actually playing the raw MXFs smoothly, but when I go through the Raylight process, I can't play the files satisfactory on my 1 year old (2x2 ghz) main editing station even in Raylight Red. Sure, red is smoother than blue, but not very much. Like I said, Raylight is a thoroughly fantastic application, but native would be better by far. (The problems could of course also be Adobe-related, having no 64-bit support or dual-core optimizations).

after all: it's only 40 mbps (DVCPRO HD 720P25) compared to 25 mbps (DV), so it shouldn't be this much harder to run.
 
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Adobe told me today that when they support a format, they always support it 100% natively. I Expect that working directly from the MXF files (with no intermediary) will most likely be faster.

- Mikko
 
All I'm saying is: playing the footage back from a DV Rack batch converted .AVI (which uses the Serious Magic DVCPRO-HD codec), gave about exactly the same performance as playing Raylight Blue.

I am assuming (and that's always dangerous, but in this case I think it's a reasonable assumption) that Adobe will continue to use the codec they already have. Which means that it should perform about the same as Raylight blue. Yet raylight has the option to go to green, yellow, or even red. So I don't see how one could expect Adobe's performance to exceed Raylight's. But, hey, as a future owner of CS3 I'd be thrilled to see it have better performance. I'm just not expecting it.
 
I can't speak for performance, but it I belive that Adobe licensed another DVCPRO-HD codec for this project.

The whole thing was done for the BBC (who are moving exclusivly to P2 now) which made it possible (viable) for Adobe to on in the investments in development, it sounds like they've really done the upgrade in a "proper" top notch way. But of course we won't relly know untill the update is released.

- Mikko
 
Did the BBC make a P2-exclusive announcement? I've been expecting them to, but I never heard any follow-up. NAB 2006 they announced a yearlong program to trial tapeless acquisition systems, but there was no announcement made at the end. So is it official, that the BBC is moving to 100% P2?
 
Hopefully it'll be fast like edius! Wouldn't that be awesome!!! Can't wait for the update. I really hope the files work with After Effect also.
 
Very good news indeed! It's about time actually. And for the price point it really doesn't matter to me one bit if Raylight is a smigen faster, I'd much rather take in program support any day of the week. Thanks Adobe!! :)
 
mikkowilson said:
Barry; I haven't heard anything"officially" directly from the BBC, this is just the word on the street.
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BBC's Factual Studios already committed to DVCPRO-HD (from the HDX900) and they've said they're going tapeless by 2010. I found a press release which said they expect to be fully converted to P2 by 2010, but I was just looking for a more comprehensive announcement if you knew of one.
 
Has Adobe mentioned to anyone visiting IBC yet how many weeks, the "in the next fex weeks" means?

hie hie, I'm gonna upgrade to CS3 form Production Studio Premium for a few reasons, but the Native P2 support is THE BIGGEST reason to make it worth the money for me.

Thanks,
Derrick
 
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