( 5 reviews )
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( 1 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Aug 15 2008
I purchased Adobe Premiere CS3, Soundbooth and AfterEffects hoping the massive package would let me do most anything with video, DVD's, and so on. You can't even take video off a DVD onto your computer, crop it and resave it... it leaves out the audio. I found numerous forums discussing this. I tried renaming from VOB to MPG. Premiere won't import the audio. You have to download and install several separate programs to modify/convert VOB, and spend hours of reading and research, and download special plug-ins for Adobe Premiere, just to get the video and audio into Premiere. Then... it still didn't work. The funny thing about it, I can copy the DVD video (.vob file) to my hard drive, and play both the audio and video from the hard drive simply using the free Windows Media Player. I can capture stills from it using PowerDVD that came with my Dell PC. Yet, this expensive program -- made for video! -- can't simply crop out sequences of audio/video from the .vob and resave it and burn it back to DVD with both audio and video. Wow. Sad. Dreamweaver is great. Some versions of Photoshop are pretty good (but require a class just to learn the basics). But Premiere -- terrible in my opinion.
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( 2 of 2 found this review helpful ) Posted: Nov 14 2007
The software is nice to work with, not very simple to use but usable none the less. The only problem I've encountered with this software is the notoriously bad encoder with memory leaks up to wazoo. If you try to encode a large movie file into mpeg2 premiere will more than likely crash on you due to bad memory management. The only solution so far is to simply restart the system and pray it wouldn't happen again. Although from my experience it seems to work the 3rd time you try. I have tried this on two brand new machines one with a new XP 32bit install and both expereienced the same issue.
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Posted: Oct 17 2007
Excellent product. Already put to good use. Many features and capabilities no other NLE seems to have.
