Adobe Premiere Pro CS4

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 4:00 pm

Meh, yet another totally underwhelming release of premiere pro. It's only 32-bit, and there's pretty much no new features that will be useful for amvs.

Extremely underwhelming release for After Effects as well, but it does have some interesting new features like ability to keyframe position x,y, and z values independently, and importing 3d models from photoshop.

mirkosp · Post by **mirkosp** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 4:28 pm

Well, the "speech-to-text" thing in premiere could help quite a bit with fastening the clipping, theoretically.

But yeah, admittedly I think that the focus of adobe on the creative suit 4 was, more than new features on Premiere/Photoshop/After Effects, having a better integration between the programs, and that's why they really pushed a lot Flash. The new version is quite the thing. Besides, they improved the dynamic links between the various programs too, so it could kind of help. The xfl documents are prolly going to help the "communication" between the programs too, I think.

Krisqo · Post by **Krisqo** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 9:59 am

Didn't CS3 just come out.

Is this really necessary for such minor updates? Why can't adobe provide small upgrades to the programs and then work on making MAJOR revisions for the next series? Or is that somehow impossible or does it just maker too much sense?

Also someone tell me this... I've looked on the Adobe website and it says I can upgrade my AE 6.5 Standard to CS4 Pro but my disk says it's from the Adobe video collection. Can I still upgrade it or am I gonna have to shell out the $1000 for CS4 or even CS3? I've really loving that paneled interface from watching tutorials.

Pwolf · Post by **Pwolf** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 12:12 pm

look like Photoshop, Premiere, and After Effects are getting GPU acceleration also (via nvidia's CUDA).

Pwolf

Brad · Post by **Brad** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 2:42 pm

Zarxrax wrote:Meh, yet another totally underwhelming release of premiere pro. It's only 32-bit, and there's pretty much no new features that will be useful for amvs.

Extremely underwhelming release for After Effects as well, but it does have some interesting new features like ability to keyframe position x,y, and z values independently, and importing 3d models from photoshop.

I wouldn't say the AE release is underwhelming. I think the "somewhat" native support of true 3D is going to be huge. Though it remains to be seen how it will perform in real world applications.

I also love the addition of transparency in gradients in Illustrator. It's something that's been possible in Flash for many years now. Glad to see Illustrator finally getting on board there.

But yeah I agree the Premiere upgrade does seem kind of meh. I'll be curious to see just how advantageous the improved Dynamic Link system is.

Pwolf · Post by **Pwolf** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 2:50 pm

Brad wrote: I also love the addition of transparency in gradients in Illustrator. It's something that's been possible in Flash for many years now. Glad to see Illustrator finally getting on board there.

do the newer version of AE have that?

Hareoic · Post by **Hareoic** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 7:51 am

What I want to know is whether or not they'll cut the price of Premiere CS3 once the CS4 version comes out.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 11:03 am

Hareoic wrote:What I want to know is whether or not they'll cut the price of Premiere CS3 once the CS4 version comes out.

No, they stop selling CS3.

Hareoic · Post by **Hareoic** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 12:28 pm

Zarxrax wrote:
Hareoic wrote:What I want to know is whether or not they'll cut the price of Premiere CS3 once the CS4 version comes out.
No, they stop selling CS3.

I mean the ones that are sold through retailers. (such as a university bookstore)

LivingFlame · Post by **LivingFlame** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 12:49 pm

Like Zarx said, Adobe will stop distributing CS3, so retailers won't have any copies to sell.

Besides, the price at a university store would be so cut already, I doubt they'd lower it even more.