Premiere Users...

[Angry Angel]

Okay, so with Vegas being all mean to me, I decided to give Premiere another shot *sighs* I don't know what it is, but I really kind of loathe that program. It seems so clustered up, and so very unnecessarily complicated. Of course it's more powerful than Vegas, but it also takes me more clicks and adjustments to do the same things in Premiere than in Vegas.

Anyway, to get to the point: Which version of Premiere is your personal favorite? I'd preferably like to use one with real-time previews. The whole scrubbing the time-line thing to see your transitions etc.... uh... yeah, whatever

What I did~ like was the little transparency/opacity rubberband in the video tracks, but it seems Premiere Pro discarded that function. I found something similar, but really dont like it as much.

[TaranT]

...Of course it's more powerful than Vegas,...

Sorry, but no. Unless you're writing about the newly-named Vegas Movie Studio (formerly Screenblast Movie Studio, formerly VideoFactory), in which case you're correct.

Anyway, to get to the point: Which version of Premiere is your personal favorite? ...

I've used 5.1 and 6.0; didn't care for the user interface. I thought it was easy enough to learn, but everything felt clumsy. But, YMMV. Everybody's different and you can get used to just about anything. If you absolutely have to have the AVS capability, then Premiere will work for you.

(Although I thought I saw a thread 6-8 months ago where someone had managed to make Vegas to frameserve correctly. Can' remember exactly who or when.)

[Scintilla]

Anyway, to get to the point: Which version of Premiere is your personal favorite?

Premiere Pro. 5.1 was nice, but Pro beats it easily.

I'd preferably like to use one with real-time previews. The whole scrubbing the time-line thing to see your transitions etc.... uh... yeah, whatever

Um, they <i>all</i> do real-time previews, at least on parts that contain transitions (and other effects). You often can't get Premiere Pro to preview <b>unaltered</b> footage in realtime (at least, not without a lot of scrubbing beforehand), but I don't consider that a major issue.

What I did~ like was the little transparency/opacity rubberband in the video tracks, but it seems Premiere Pro discarded that function. I found something similar, but really dont like it as much.

You can still find that; it merely requires bringing up the right track view option in the timeline ("Show Opacity Handles" I think it is?). However, I don't bother with it anymore, as I find keyframing to be easier and more precise.

[worldangel]

What I did~ like was the little transparency/opacity rubberband in the video tracks, but it seems Premiere Pro discarded that function. I found something similar, but really dont like it as much.

I think it is still there..I checked it out this morning and manage to get it to work after reading the Premiere manual...

[bum]

What I did~ like was the little transparency/opacity rubberband in the video tracks, but it seems Premiere Pro discarded that function. I found something similar, but really dont like it as much.

yeah, vegas has that too. its called the fade to colourenvelope. and ya can set that to work with varios colours, instead of just varios levels of opacity

[Angry Angel]

Waaah I never even knew about Composite Lvl and Fade-to-Color envelopes, and I've been using Vegas for like a year now OMG, it's such a great function... I used to always cut videos into segments to adjust the opacity more accurately... ahh, I just tried the envelopes and they help sooo~ much! Thank you thank you *glomps*

[bum]

im surpised you've had it for so long and didnt know about envelopes. if you ever have a question or problem, the first thing you should do is hit the f1 key when vegas is open and use the manual. second thing you should do is post a thread and wait for me or taran to get online .

with the fade to colour envelope, the band actualy affects every video timeline under the track where its placed (as well as the track where its placed) so if your planing on using it heavily on a single track, you best make that timeline the bottom one, unless you specificaly want it to affect other tracks.

[Angry Angel]

Ah, that's good to know. Thanks

I knew about velocity envelopes, but the fade to color and composite... nuh-uh. It's so neat

[Garylisk]

I use Premiere 6.0. I like it very much, and it seems to crash less than 5 did.

I've never used Premiere Pro because my computer can't run it.

[bum]

I use Premiere 6.0. I like it very much, and it seems to crash less than 5 did.

hahahaha. ya can just imagine the developers siting around a table planing the program.

devguy 1 - so, what new stuff should we put in premier 6 ?

devguy 2 - how about we try making it crash less ?

devguy 1 - great. what does everyone els think ?

devguy 3 - how about we try to stop it crashing alltogeather ?

*strange look on everyones face*

devguy 1 - nah, then it wouldnt be premier