Is anybody using Premiere CS3?
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Al MacLeod
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I just got cs5.5 for an i7 win 7 laptop because my old laptop died. For me it made more sense to take the plunge because of the half price premium production package vs a new xp laptop and cs3. I still use cs3 on my xp desktop...works fine. Is cs5.5 "better"? Maybe. I don't do the kind of stuff that would make the MPE thing and all that really shine. It is pretty much the same as cs3 for most of what I do.
I upgraded from ppro 1.5 to cs3 to get compatibility with dvcpro hd and p2 cards. I use cameras that make avchd files, but there are free programs to convert so that did not matter. If cs3 does what you want right now I'd say run it till you need to switch.
I upgraded from ppro 1.5 to cs3 to get compatibility with dvcpro hd and p2 cards. I use cameras that make avchd files, but there are free programs to convert so that did not matter. If cs3 does what you want right now I'd say run it till you need to switch.
I use it day in day out for a living, and unless you make use of all the latest and greatest dslr video formats cs5 is pretty much the same thing as cs3. I find it strange how everyone is just jumping on the premiere bandwagon now with version 5; the basic timeline and editing functionality has remained pretty much unchanged since ppro 1.5 which was released way back in 2004 or 05 if my memory serves me right.
If CS3 does what you need it to do, that's great, but CS5 is undeniably better than CS3. It runs faster, is 64-bit so it's capable of utilizing more memory, is more stable, capable of exporting to Media Encoder so you can edit and export at the same time as well as queue up sequences to be exported. And also starting from CS4 onward, Premiere is now able to export OMF files, a crucial feature if you're ever working with a sound editor. Not to mention it's fully compatible with all the latest camera codecs etc. And that's just a few of the new features.
The point is that if you just need the very very basic functionality, then the earlier versions will work for you. However the later versions does all that and it does it better. I've used every single version of Premiere since 6.5 and I can tell you that the software has grown by leap and bound over the years, so it's not a "bandwagon" that people are jumping on to.
Amadou
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I use XD CAM footage and cineform. CS3 can handle that. I have a I7 960, so rendering is very fast. I tried CS5 once and I noticed that everything in the menus is exectly the same except for the fact you have ULTRA for chroma keying. Titles are the same, effects are the same. So beyond the fact you may gain a percentage in speed, I don't see what you can do in CS5 which you can't do in CS3. As long as you can export AVI or WAV, you are able to do anything you need for doing exterior post production work. For example, you can export the audio in separate wav files, and then line up the wav files in any other software. Same with AVI.
As I see it, the only reason one would need CS5 would be for certain codec compatibilities such as DSLR and what have you. Yet if you have an intermediate codec that works with CS3, you're fine.
As I see it, the only reason one would need CS5 would be for certain codec compatibilities such as DSLR and what have you. Yet if you have an intermediate codec that works with CS3, you're fine.
Kevin Monahan
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Some keep CS3 around for paint, which you can't find in CS5 or CS5.5. CS4 also has paint.
But 5.5 will handle it better. You'd not need the Cineform conversion. However fast it might be, it's still unnecessary and will save you that much time if you use the original media.
The effects are actually not quite the same. Besides a lot of them now working in the native YUV color space of most media, thus avoiding any unnecessary YUV->RGB conversions, a lot of them are now accelerated by the GPU (nVidia models), which can allow real time playback in situations that are simply not possible in CS3 without a render, and which can speed up export by a factor of 10x or more.
You also get far superior scaling algorithms in CS5.5 than were available in CS3.
There really are a LOT of performance improvements in CS5.5 that make the upgrade well worth it, especially for anyone working with HD media.
Not to mention the overall HUGE leap forward Windows 7 is over XP.
It's just no comparison. Win 7 and CS5.5 are a far superior combination over XP and CS3, well worth the upgrade price even for the most basic editor still using only DV.
You should read my post.
Let's say you're doing a shoot with double system sound and you need to send the sound off to a sound editor for mixing. Yes you can simply export one big wav file but you can't do things like have handle (extra bit of the track that goes either way from a cut to give flexibility in post production) and you don't have the metadata that goes with it (i.e which take was used where). When I was using CS3 I had to go through the laborious process of labeling the takes by hand so that my sound editor would know which take was used (since he doesn't edit off the compressed audio that goes into my camera but the uncompressed files that goes through his recorder/mixer). The OMF feature alone (starting in CS4) was priceless.
Another example: Let's say you're working on 5-10 short clips and you need to render them out overnight. Or do you need to work on one clip while another one is rendering? In CS3 you would basically have to sit there and wait for the sequence to render one at a time. In CS5, simply queue them up in Media Encoder and let it go.
Just these two features alone are massive time savers and make CS5 well worth the upgrade. So no, it's not just simply a "faster" program.