Tagged: Premiere Pro

Premiere Pro reliability – doing things by halves

I switched from FCP7 to Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 in November 2010, mostly because of the big steps Adobe were making with GPU accelerated effects and the ability to use media without the need to transcode. At that time FCP7 was still the current and trusted solution for Mac users...

Lion users report better performance from Adobe Premiere Pro

I’ve been writing quite a lot about the poor timeline performance issues when using Premiere Pro CS5 & CS5.5 on the Mac and with the thread about the subject on adobe’s forum now reaching over 4000 views it seems to be a very widespread issue. Since upgrading to Lion though...

Final Cut Pro to Premiere Pro – six months in

I switched from Final Cut Pro to Premiere Pro CS5 about six months ago and have been using it as my main NLE ever since. Due to Apples recent launch of the not so pro FCPX there’s a lot of FCP users considering the jump to Premiere Pro so I...

Premiere’s laggy timeline – a breakthrough!

After over 130 posts on the Adobe Forums and quite a few people getting involved here on my blog I think we’ve finally had a breakthrough regarding the lag that a lot of us have been seeing when using the timeline in Premiere Pro. What’s been really confusing is why...

Laggy timeline in Adobe Premiere Pro

I’ve been using Premiere Pro for the last six months and have been very happy with it but there’s one issue that I’ve always found slightly frustrating. When dragging clips around on the timeline there is a lot of lag, it’s almost as though the clips are attached to the...

HDSLR Encoding Wars – Premiere Pro vs Final Cut Pro

Browsing the web reading various reports and reviews about Premiere Pro I keep coming across the statement that because Premiere Pro works without the need to transcode H.264 DSLR files the footage inherently retains more quality. After using Premiere Pro for a week or so I decided to spend some...