This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] avid editors' opinion of adobe premiere?

Saturday, March 19, 2016

Re: [Avid-L2] avid editors' opinion of adobe premiere?

Very interesting, Tod, thanks.

I was wondering about what happened to resolution when you start nesting Adobe sequences. So it sounds like you can scale a 4K source into an HD frame, then nest that HD frame into another sequence, blow up the part you're interested in, and preserve the underlying 4K quality without worrying about intermediate downscaling. Is that right?

Cheers,
--Michael

On 2016-03-19 9:59 AM, hoplist@hillmanncarr.com wrote:

On Mar 16, 2016, at 11:58 PM, Michael Brockington mbrock321@gmail.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

This upcoming project will use a custom raster - probably something like
5276x1920, so about 5xHD frames stacked sideways, which would be about
25% more pixels than a 4K frame.

At the risk of oversimplifying, this is a no-brainer for me. Nothing can touch the Adobe Creative suite for this type of production. There's a lot to love about Avid, but multi-image production is definitely not one of them. Resolution independence is THE thing that Adobe does better than everyone else.

I've been cutting multi-image productions for 25 years using both Avid and Final Cut. Last year I finished three screen and six screen productions using Avid v7. About 45% of these shows had to round trip with AE. At the same time, two of my "junior" editors finished two seamless three-screen productions, and a three-stream "Mosaic" production using Premiere and After Effects. This was a direct, side-by-side test in real world production over a year's time.

The Adobe workflow is wildly superior for multi-screen. Resolution flexibility and round-tripping between Premiere and After Effects is a killer combo.

I am now cutting a 5760x1080, three-projector, mixed format production using Premiere on an eight year old quad-core with Kona3. I am off-lining in an HD sequence using full resolution sources including 4K. No conversion of footage. I can take this low-res sequence and drop it into three master resolution sequences and output at master quality for projection tests. One frame adjustment. Shockingly easy.

I am not an Adobe fan and I am a long-time Avid fan. I've only been editing seriously with Premiere for a year. I would be very, very unhappy if you took Premiere away from me right now.

Cheers,

tod