Premiere Pro - It's out...Does anyone have it/use it? How does it feel? Worth buying? Better than 6.5? Better than FCP? 1-10 scale of flexibility? Fast? Efficient? How's the real-time? Color correction, good? Bad?

I am experimenting with it. It is quite different.
I don't know if I like it more. The real-time thing is done with a lower resolution, but is good for preview. Sound is conformed to a Adobe standard. I don't know why.

The A and B editing has disapeared. Transformations are edited in a dedicated window where the keys are very visible and can be handled.
I have to get known with all the new things and setups.

Old projects will be transformed and so far my plugins worked also under PRO.

The streaming for Quicktime, Realmedia and winMedia is not optimal to my opinion. For instance 16:9 is put in a 4:3 frame with black borders up and down. For winMedia the encoder of Microsoft is better and more flexibel..

The MPEG encoder is superb.
A DVD will be burned seamless. But without menu options. Chapters can be made. So maybe I will succeed in connecting to the chapters and can create somehow a menu in Photoshop. The online manual does not say it.

The colorcorrection needs experience and is not automated but done on the base of reference points like in photoshop. That needs experimenting and experience.

The timeline zooming facilty is very handy!

I mis the bandings for transparancy and sound.

Those are first impressions.

I have to get accustomed to the new approach before I can judge well. I have the idea that when I am accustomed that I will be able to work faster and easyer.

Let you hear more when I have more experimented.

Sounds very cool. I like it when I hear a company has made a program very different. Whether for better or worse, at least they are putting forth the effort to improve it. Makes me look optimistic! Anyone else?

I agree with that!

Thanks for the comments, Jan! If anybody else has used PP, let's hear your thoughts too!

Was trying out the mpeg1 encoding on premier pro and was rather disappointed, I still prefer vegas encoding.. lots of difference...

I tried importing a 1 hour avi file to permiere pro but all i get was only a 3 mins clip. any idea why?the video was captured through another software.

Not too impressed with premiere pro.

When i first launched it... it looked cool. but i liked the way they had it back in 6.5

Can't install explode 4.0
Capture device resets everytime
No video preview, unless i push record and then stop.

I recommend to stick with 6.5

I have Premiere Pro and since I been editing in it for past 3 weeks, I dread touching premiere 6.5. THe only problem with Premiere Pro for me currently is the storyboard/bin capability it has a bug in it. I used Vegas video but I didn't like the interface. Premiere Pro is a good software and will be a great software once all the bugs are fixed.

I just downloaded the upgrade and let me warn you---if you were running 6.5 successfully on an under powered machine, dont expect the same with Pro--On my 1ghz Dell 6.5 ran well--Pro runs like a constipated snail--I'm not blaming Adobe--I guess I need to purchase a faster compute

Well I just upped the juice my computer, 2.4 ghz pentium 4, gig of RAM, 245 gigs of space, with tons of cooling mods, that should suffice, no?

I actually had the reverse effect... I couldn't run 6.0 very well, but Pro works perfectly. (P4 1.6Ghz, 512MB RAM, 120GB external HD)

I disclaim this posting with the fact that I have only been exposed to NLE for a year. However, I routinely upgrade and repair computers, so maybe that compensates?

However, I must say that Prem Pro has me unimpressed. I am running the program on a 2GHz laptop and it barely moves.

Having worked a little with AVID, a little with Pinnacle and a lot with Prem 6.0 & 6.5, it seems that Adobe WinXP-ified the user interface.

There is definitely more manual control of features. I would say it's the equivalent of upgrading from a cheap automatic photo camera, to a full manual SLR.

However, as I mentioned, the software doesn't move. It really seems that Adobe was trying to take its software to the next level in terms of making it a professional editor. Many of the upgraded features were already available in Avid Xpress.

My guess is that the software code is too "bulky" for all but the fastest machines. It may try to take on AVID/ Pinnacle/ in terms of features, but can't take on AVID or Pinnacle in terms of efficieny of resource usage.

BOTTOM LINE: Keep that copy of 6.5 handy!

Premiere Pro runs just fine on my outdated dual 1.6 athlon machine with a gig of ram. I've been impressed with it so far (the main point being that it hasn't crashed yet, as Premiere 6.5 crashed often on my machine).

However, I can't seem to get a decent looking render out of it, at all, without saving as an uncompressed avi. Anyone care to share their export settings?

WHa you talking about?? PPro runs like crap on an underpowered machine like your 1.6 athlon. I had an athlon XP 2100+(1.7GHZ) and the realtime features of PPro looked like crap in draft mode. I've since then upgraded to a 3.2GHZ P4 and now much more functional.

My machine might be old but it is NOT underpowered. It still kicks some butt. =P

Notice I did say -DUAL- Athlon... so I really have about 3.2Ghz of speed... but Im not sure how Premiere Pro handles the multithreading thing. It runs perfectly fine though.