Adobe Premiere Pro CS5

Here's a review:

http://thurly.net/0g9b

64 bit boot with a multithreading Mac allows you to access as much RAM on your Mac when using Premiere CS5

Is adobe professional software?

Adobe authors software, some of with a professional target market, and some for the consumer and prosumer.

Is Photoshop professional?

I have recently purchased PPCS5 and am now testing it. My main reason for purchasing it was to be able to author Blu-ray disks of my video with custom menus. To date I am extremely satisfied. I shoot video in 1920 X 1080p AVCHD format, and edit it without transcoding, which saves me time and a massive amount of disk space! I have encountered many other pleasant surprises that are described in the review linked above. I recommend you read the review.

You will find those here who claim PPCS5 is buggy. To date, after about three weeks of intermittent testing, It has quit, one time. I have no idea what caused it, but if it quits every time at that frequency - I will be able to tolerate it.

I love FCP, but it became an issue of my being unable to wait any longer for Apple to say or do something positive about Blu-ray. My customers want it, so I have no choice but to deliver it!

It is a joy to watch the Activity Monitor with all my eight cores maxed-out! It has also taken advantage of my 12GBytes of RAM, by sucking-up 9GBytes.

I generally use simple effects like fades and dissolves, and am not required to render them before I can see them in the timeline. All that, at the same time it generates the in-between frames of my AVCHD original - without transcoding.

I'm working on an hour-long production with it now, and just did a quick check of the amount of disk storage required for the project. It appears the overhead storage requirement (above and beyond the AVCHD original and the Photoshop graphics) is a few megabytes. It's so few that I feel I must have overlooked something.

Message was edited by: Harold Abbott

If you are referring to the "smoothcam???" filter in Final Cut, I don't see a similar filter in PPCS5. That doesn't mean there isn't one, as I am still getting familiar with it. I would make a small wager that there is a similar filter in Adobe After Effects, which I don't own.

I have just finished my first 59 minute project with PP CS5, including delivery on Blu-ray. I encountered only one unexplained crash which caused me no problem - I save often.

My first evaluation of the product is that the ability to create Blu-ray disks makes it compelling for me. In addition, I shoot AVCHD at 1920 X 1080, and it does not require me to transcode. This saves me massive amounts of disk storage.

So far as buttons and menus in Encore, you can create them in Photoshop with hot dynamic links. They can be animated or use video imagery. Some here say Encore is complex to use, but it's close integration with Photoshop made it a joy for me.

I am a bit shocked by the lack of documentation. PP CS5 came without a manual, but Adobe has some tutorials online, including a set for converting from FCP, that worked to a degree. I was able to get my job done, but feel I could have finished my project in less time, with less pain if I had the written word.