Adobe Premiere CS6 Nightmare. Deja Vu from a FCP 7 user

[Sergio Perez]

Hi Wes, thanks for taking a look at this. Unfortunately your pm inbox seems to be full? Can yo send me an address to upload? Unfortunately the size of the files (3Gb smalest) are huge since the tv station sent each "race" as a single file. An FTP I can use?

Cheers and thanks again,

Sergio

 

[Sergio Perez]

I would definitely report the MXF import bug to Adobe, if you have not done so already!

Premiere CS6 is good on the Mac, but has some quirks. Definitely a lot more stable on Windows at the moment.

I used to advocate the FCP keyboard shortcut mapping to those switching over, but with all the newer features and abilities in CS6 I really don't anymore. If you're switching to Premiere from another NLE, I would recommend leaving everything as the default Adobe keys. Especially if you're already a regular user of other Adobe apps, namely photoshop. So much is standard across the entire suite and the major ones are still mostly the same between FCP and Adobe anyway. Once you get used to Premiere CS6, it's hard to go back to FCP. So much more power, more flexibility, control, etc..

Of course, I'm still unsure how most "editors" actually function and think. While I do a lot of editing, I don't consider myself an "editor". I could never lock myself into using any single piece of software or solidify myself on a specific NLE. Which seems to be a requirement for someone to be an "editor" these days. Makes no sense at all, IMNSHO...

Jeff, I agree with what you say about being editing platform flexible.i don't.consider myself an "editor" myself. I think we all end up staying or hei g what we feel more confortable with. While all editors have similarities, they do have some "language" differences and this requires commitment from the one editing to learn it. One normally stays with what provides the user with a good experience in editing, from workflow, stability, organization, speed, etc. If Final Cut Pro x was, well. Final Cut Pro 8 with all the realtime advantages and performance gains of X, I would not consider premiere. But since everything changed and I had to relearn The "language", adobe seemed like a good place to go. I'm not As hot blooded as yesterday and today I do feel like giving Premiere one more chance .However, like me I believe that there are Big. Inch of former FCP editors who went to premiere reluctantly, and these kind o things don't help. In my. Ase I might have gotten unlucky-not on the mxf crash but on the drive corruption - but these things do matter, specially when you're coming from a previous experience in FCP that gave you immense confidence in the software. Adobe's premiere track record isn't well known for stability. I was expecting an improvement and maybe I got unlucky but it failed! Others are reporting. Erystable systems, though. Maybe it's bad karma with me!