Saturday, July 21, 2012

A Brisk Start for Adobe's Production Premium CS6

Well, Adobe has now had CS6 out for several months and at least Premiere Pro already seems to be generating more buzz than even the CS5 release...and frankly that's saying something.

Only time will tell if Premiere Pro may have reached the feature and function set that will really gain traction in the higher end entertainment sector of the industry, but I suspect you'll be surprised at the amount of entertainment and feature production that will be attributed to Premiere Pro in the next year.

The new release of Premiere Pro has been keeping me busy as well...I've spent some time on the phone with production facilities around the USA who are changing their workflow to switch to Premiere Pro, which has been an interesting study in having to change how you even think about what it is you do, much less just how you do it.

I'm scheduled to train U.S. military personnel who are migrating to Adobe for their work in combat camera in just a couple weeks, I've been in the studio to do my Class On Demand training course for Premiere Pro...and my fxphd.com class - "PRM203, Intermediate Premiere Pro CS6" is under way.  I've also wedged in some time to do the technical editing on two books...one being Adobe's Classroom in a Book for Premiere Pro CS6, and another for Focal that isn't released yet.

I've also had a spike in production lately and I have to say that even as a long time Premiere Pro user, I like the changes that Adobe is making...The new keyboard shortcuts may be different, some features have changed, but the changes feel good and I have to say that this software feels pretty nimble relative to CS5...which was no slouch.

More to come on Premiere Pro in coming days, but I will point out that the blog archives are still available by keyword over to the right and down the page.  I still get regular requests for the color sub-sampling and vectorscope articles particularly.

TimK