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Brian’s Take on CS5.5

Brian’s Take on CS5.5. GAPVA - June 28, 2011. Before spending money on your business, you should ask yourself: Will this help me make money? Does it make me more efficient? Does it enable you to sell new features/benefits? What impact will this product have on my workflow?

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Brian’s Take on CS5.5

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  1. Brian’s Take on CS5.5 GAPVA - June 28, 2011

  2. Before spending money on your business, you should ask yourself: • Will this help me make money? • Does it make me more efficient? • Does it enable you to sell new features/benefits? • What impact will this product have on my workflow? • Will I get faster rendering times or spend less time keyframing? • Is it backwards compatible? • Does this product have prereq’s that will cost me additional money? • New Computer, “optional” accessories, batteries, Cases, Memory cards

  3. This presentation is a review the Adobe CS5 & CS5.5 Production Premium suite for PC. I work primarily as a wedding and event videographer. Since upgrading from CS4 to CS5 then more recently to CS5.5 I’ve only had the opportunity to shoot and edit weddings.

  4. New Features that Rock • Premiere 64-bit Mercury Playback Engine w/ CUDA Acceleration (Enhanced in CS5.5) • With CS4 my Q6600 quad-core computer struggled to play my canon DSLR video smoothly. • After upgrading to CS5, playback is flawless, even with GPU acceleration turned off. With GPU acceleration turned on I still get smooth DSLR playback after applying a few accelerated effects. • With CS5.5 & GPU acceleration on, I can layer multiple DSLR clips, with lots of ‘accelerated’ effects and have flawlessly smooth playback. • After Effects Warp Stabilizer Effect(CS5.5) • Using Adobe Dynamic Link, I work in After effects to stabilize clips that I’m editing in Premiere. Checkout the numerous Warp Stabilizer reviews on the net. It is truly amazing.

  5. New Features that Rock (cont.) • Scene split on capture for HDV (CS5) • Improved project search box (a.k.a. RapidFind) • Improved Adobe Media Encoder (CS5) • Seems faster when loading sequences and transcoding • Adds “Watch Folder” for automatic batch encoding • Actual status updates so you know what it’s doing • Adobe Audition replaces Soundbooth (YEA!!) (CS5.5) • A much more professional multi-track audio editor • Some effects are multi-threaded, altho some still are not • Lots of small changes in the suite • Naming chapter points in Premiere (CS5) • Workflow within Adobe Media Encoder

  6. Features that Suck or are worthless • Speech recognition (CS5, maybe CS4) • Has not worked on any of the projects I’ve attempted to use it on • “CS Live” online service • Not really applicable to services I offer or my clients • Adobe CS Subscription Service (CS5.5) • 12mo or month-to-month @ $85/mo or $129/mo, respectively • Why pay more than $1,000/yr and have your software quit working when the subscription expires? • For $1,700 you have a perpetual license and future upgrades are likely to run less than $1,000/yr

  7. Features that were removed from previous versions • Adobe Audition’s CD Burning Capabilities (last available Audition 3) • Premiere’s Time Warp (pixel motion) (removed from CS5 and up)

  8. Thanks for your attention!

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