CS6 Feedback.

I'm having some problems with my trial version of CS6 being essentially unable to work with AF100 audio. Not thrilled.
 
At the moment I'm testing out CS6 Premiere, and it seems, could be a hallucination... that it is in fact faster on my old Mac Book Pro 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and 2 GB ram. I realize many may consider the memory 'too small'... but heck that's all I have at the moment...

I've not really tested it on a project I did last week, which is next up, but on some 'happy clips', it seems to be 'faster'... The short movie I made last week did have some masking going on, so I'll see how fast that renders, but at the moment I think the AVCHD processing for better 'realtime' display on plain imported files...
 
j1clark@ucsd.edu said:
At the moment I'm testing out CS6 Premiere, and it seems, could be a hallucination... that it is in fact faster on my old Mac Book Pro 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and 2 GB ram.
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I've been testing out Premiere Pro CS6 on the exact same machine, and I have to say it runs so much faster than CS5 ever did on my macbook. Even my encode times with Media Encoder CS6 have been boosted.
 
Kyle Fordrung said:
I've been testing out Premiere Pro CS6 on the exact same machine, and I have to say it runs so much faster than CS5 ever did on my macbook. Even my encode times with Media Encoder CS6 have been boosted.
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I'm always a little worried about falling into "new software syndrome"... that is 'because it's new software, therefore it must run faster, better, longer, whateverer...'.
 
Does anyone use speedgrade? I am a bit puzzled by this product. It's a good color grading tool, but where do you fit it in your workflow? I usually cut with PP and do color grading in AE. Is speedgrade adding much value to bother with in my workflow?
 
(PC User). I downloaded the trial (have been using 5.5). Used it about a day and a half then placed my order for the upgrade to CS6.
It's definitely faster, no question about that . . . but I'm pretty much liking everything about it.
Working on a project that used three different cameras . . . no problem-o!
Haven't spent enough time with SpeedGrade yet to have figured it out but looks promising . . . although it did take a long time to export a 3 minute sequence out of PP (in all fairness it was a nested mult-camera (3 or 'em) sequence).
Thought I'd never say this but, "good-bye Edius Broadcast" (and I'd already quit the Avid solution a couple of iterations ago).
Very well integrated suite.
 
With the little time I played around with CS6 , I have found that there is an improvement in speed, still not use to the layout but i like it so far.
 
bumkicho said:
Does anyone use speedgrade? I am a bit puzzled by this product. It's a good color grading tool, but where do you fit it in your workflow? I usually cut with PP and do color grading in AE. Is speedgrade adding much value to bother with in my workflow?
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I have played with it but that’s about it. I’m surprised it doesn’t have curves. I want to like it. Someone has to create an essential training video for it.

You should grade at the end. Now as for round triping back to Ppro I haven’t a clue. Yet.

I did find this at Adobe TV.

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-speedgrade-cs6/what-is-speedgrade/
 
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I use FCP and haven't spent enough time in Premiere to reasonably comment on that, but I have upgraded to Photoshop CS6 in the middle of a project I'm working on, and very impressed with it.

I still have both versions (5.5 and 6) installed, but don't expect I will be using 5.5 again anytime soon...
 
I found one thing CS6 does not like, MP4 640x480 SD Progressive footage, where as MP4 HD720p and 1080p from a GoProhd footage is fine.
 
I have been cutting a sizzle presentation this week with h.264 HD, ProRes HD and DNxHD and some SD clips as well all in the same timeline with no rendering or issues. This is HUGE! What a time saver. Can't believe how easy this edit is. In FCP I would have to transcode or render every clip that didn't match my sequence. No looking back. I do really hope the AJA software comes out soon. I miss my playback monitor.
 
mcgeedigital said:
I am on windows.

Just switched to it from the Mac.

IMO, Resolve kills Speedgrade in every way imaginable.
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I'm looking forward to trying Resolve when I get my BMD Cinema camera. I've heard great things about it.

In regards to PP CS6, I love it. I still use FCPX (moved from FCP6 last year) for simple/less complicated single camera stuff but having the CS6 collection is like having a quiver full of arrows. Premiere Pro CS6 feels really good, snappy and responsive. I really like using Prelude to ingest and setting in/out points ahead of the project. Never thought I would enjoy my craft the way I do now.
 
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