timmilgram
Active member
After doing 3 projects with this new version, I'm definitely noticing a tradeoff. Lumetri Color is amazing and has made coloring wayyyyy faster and painless. That's an improvement, but I'm not sure if the benefits outweigh the issues.
ISSUES:
1. Playback on my machine is not as good as the previous version. The behavior is drastically different. In the previous version, once in a while when playback started slowing down (due to too many effects or layers on top of eachother) it would skip frames and stay in sync with the music. If I hit the spacebar it would stop, and I could start playing again and it would fix itself. NOW, what happens is I hit spacebar and the program becomes slightly irresponsive and continues to play the skipping video and audio, apparently out of sync with one another. This results in these micro "freakout" moments here and there where I feel like I'm trying to get the computer to do one thing but it's not doing what I expect it to based on the previous behavior of the timeline. Super annoying.
2. Audio playback randomly cuts out. It seems as if this update maybe isn't playing as nicely with my sound card as the last version did. I did have issues with sound at times before, but closing the program and opening would fix the problem for a few hours. With this update, the problem is consistent, and I get these yellow pop-up notifications in the corner to remind me every time the audio skips a beat. One time, this happened and I could no longer hear *ANY* audio on my computer (including other programs) and I had to restart my machine to get it to start working. WTF
3. On export, I am noticing that if the video starts with a strong musical sound, there is a "popping" sound that sounds like a 1-frame peak of the audio. My workaround is to do a keyframe fade in from -infiniti DB to 0db for the first 2 frames of the video to get the popping sound to go away. This is annoying but I can deal with it.
4. The loading graphic/photo for this version is FUGLY. A client of mine on an editing session commented "Does that dude have a bulge in his pants? What is this program?" OK this may be a non-issue but come on Adobe... this looks like they randomly selected an employee's Instagram photo to save money on licensing fees.
ISSUES:
1. Playback on my machine is not as good as the previous version. The behavior is drastically different. In the previous version, once in a while when playback started slowing down (due to too many effects or layers on top of eachother) it would skip frames and stay in sync with the music. If I hit the spacebar it would stop, and I could start playing again and it would fix itself. NOW, what happens is I hit spacebar and the program becomes slightly irresponsive and continues to play the skipping video and audio, apparently out of sync with one another. This results in these micro "freakout" moments here and there where I feel like I'm trying to get the computer to do one thing but it's not doing what I expect it to based on the previous behavior of the timeline. Super annoying.
2. Audio playback randomly cuts out. It seems as if this update maybe isn't playing as nicely with my sound card as the last version did. I did have issues with sound at times before, but closing the program and opening would fix the problem for a few hours. With this update, the problem is consistent, and I get these yellow pop-up notifications in the corner to remind me every time the audio skips a beat. One time, this happened and I could no longer hear *ANY* audio on my computer (including other programs) and I had to restart my machine to get it to start working. WTF
3. On export, I am noticing that if the video starts with a strong musical sound, there is a "popping" sound that sounds like a 1-frame peak of the audio. My workaround is to do a keyframe fade in from -infiniti DB to 0db for the first 2 frames of the video to get the popping sound to go away. This is annoying but I can deal with it.
4. The loading graphic/photo for this version is FUGLY. A client of mine on an editing session commented "Does that dude have a bulge in his pants? What is this program?" OK this may be a non-issue but come on Adobe... this looks like they randomly selected an employee's Instagram photo to save money on licensing fees.
