Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 first impressions. - GoFuckYourself.com

Jim_Gunn · 07-15-2007, 10:51 PM

I purchased the Premiere Pro 2 upgrade with a special offer a few months ago for $199 and that earned me a free CS3 upgrade for just $5.95 shipping on my credit card, which I received several days ago. So far I only installed the core app. It imported my existing ver. 2.0 projects fine. I like the dockable/undockable panels. The asset bins are much improved, the find feature is nice if you have a lot of assets.

Active panels in the user interface are now highlighted in yellow. It's a nice little touch. I haven't played with the new time remapping feature yet, but I am sure that will be useful for slo-mo cumshots. It doesn't appear that nested sequences need to be re-rendered either, which is one more annoyance now fixed. CS3 now burns to Blue-Ray (don't have a burner to try this) and also has some more small format export profiles, like for Ipod, and mobile and game devices.

Nor have I installed the Encore CS3 upgrade which has some cool features of it's own like allowing one to export DVD menus to automatically create interactive flash content that works like the DVD menus structure it is based on. The On Location software which allows one to record SD or HD directly to hard disks looks interesting as well.

I can say this about my particular workflow, the latest version of Cineform's Aspect HD HDV editing plugin software (ver. 5) paired with CS3 is the first version that has nearly flawless video clip playback. Unlike what many user experienced in previous versions with Premiere Pro 1.5.1 or 2.0, there is no slight change of color or color saturation or stuttering audio when playing clips from the timeline!

stickyfingerz · 07-15-2007, 10:55 PM

I installed the demo, but since it lacks the HDV plugin I couldnt give it a good test run. Im interested to hear more as to how it performs for you Jim. Im sure Ill upgrade, but just doing a wait and see for it for the time being.

Randyyy · 07-15-2007, 11:03 PM

same thing here with the demo version, lot of features are disabled............. but good to hear the flawless playback on the timeline, for a second there you were freaking out with the play/pause skipping! hehe

hooray for flawless HD playback!

KILL_FRENZY · 07-16-2007, 05:51 AM

haven't tried cs3 yet

Penny24Seven · 07-16-2007, 07:15 AM

I have it, exported a movie took forever. way longer then before. i'm probably doing it wrong though

07-15-2007, 10:51 PM	#1
Jim_Gunn Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Where The Teens Are Posts: 5,702	Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 first impressions. I purchased the Premiere Pro 2 upgrade with a special offer a few months ago for $199 and that earned me a free CS3 upgrade for just $5.95 shipping on my credit card, which I received several days ago. So far I only installed the core app. It imported my existing ver. 2.0 projects fine. I like the dockable/undockable panels. The asset bins are much improved, the find feature is nice if you have a lot of assets. Active panels in the user interface are now highlighted in yellow. It's a nice little touch. I haven't played with the new time remapping feature yet, but I am sure that will be useful for slo-mo cumshots. It doesn't appear that nested sequences need to be re-rendered either, which is one more annoyance now fixed. CS3 now burns to Blue-Ray (don't have a burner to try this) and also has some more small format export profiles, like for Ipod, and mobile and game devices. Nor have I installed the Encore CS3 upgrade which has some cool features of it's own like allowing one to export DVD menus to automatically create interactive flash content that works like the DVD menus structure it is based on. The On Location software which allows one to record SD or HD directly to hard disks looks interesting as well. I can say this about my particular workflow, the latest version of Cineform's Aspect HD HDV editing plugin software (ver. 5) paired with CS3 is the first version that has nearly flawless video clip playback. Unlike what many user experienced in previous versions with Premiere Pro 1.5.1 or 2.0, there is no slight change of color or color saturation or stuttering audio when playing clips from the timeline! Last edited by Jim_Gunn; 07-15-2007 at 10:53 PM..

07-15-2007, 11:03 PM	#3
Randyyy Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 2,240	same thing here with the demo version, lot of features are disabled............. but good to hear the flawless playback on the timeline, for a second there you were freaking out with the play/pause skipping! hehe hooray for flawless HD playback! __________________ need video editing done? hit me up! ICQ: 10347906

07-16-2007, 05:51 AM	#4
KILL_FRENZY Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 6,184	haven't tried cs3 yet __________________ BOOST YOUR SALES! WordPress Templates \| Joomla Templates \| TGP Templates \| Cartoons \| Custom Design Contact: ICQ - 240130421 \| Email - [email protected]

07-16-2007, 07:15 AM	#5
Penny24Seven So Fucking What Industry Role: Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: USA Posts: 6,287	I have it, exported a movie took forever. way longer then before. i'm probably doing it wrong though __________________ Our site is coming soon. It will be one of the best ever! I know so. Brian and Penny

07-15-2007, 10:55 PM	#2
stickyfingerz Doin fine Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 24,983	I installed the demo, but since it lacks the HDV plugin I couldnt give it a good test run. Im interested to hear more as to how it performs for you Jim. Im sure Ill upgrade, but just doing a wait and see for it for the time being.