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Devin Johnston
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I know this isn't a usual topic here but I thought I would give it a shot. I've got Premiere 6.5 and I like to use the Windows Media 8 exporter to export my animations, and it works fine on my dual Xeon machine. When I try to export the same clip on my dual Opteron machine I get a "mission codec" error. I've tried reinstalling the software but get the same error every time. Does anyone know if Premiere has a problem with Opteron systems?

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I don't know if it does, never heard of it though. I used Premiere 6 and now Pro on an Athlon system and its fine.

 

Perhaps you don't have the right version of Windows Media Player on that machine? I recall that you need the player of Quicktime to get QT output from Premiere, maybe the same applies to WMP.

 

Or, re-install Premiere on the mis-behaving machine.

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How do you like Premiere Pro, is it worth the upgrade?

 

That's hard to say. No, I do not like it. But it has more output options, especially to DVD/MPEG which I think is important. Also, fades and effects show when playing-back inside the program. So I bought it. But the timeline has been re-done, and not improved by my tastes. It IS more industry-standard, I think, just less easy to use.

 

I keep going back to 6.5 for many projects that do not need any special output options because its just a lot easier to get my work done.

 

One recent animation that I was doing with Pro went well enough, but the last phase was audio. I laid down a series of background 'ambient' tracks. As I did so the program had this nasty habit of crashing. Like every few minutes. But they were soft crashes, so I was able to keep making progress, saving, then after one or two playbacks, it would stop working 100% and politely tell me it was having a problem. I got through the process and checked the Adobe website for support on the problem, and they had a few suggestions that didn't help much, except for one that said a solution would be to upgrade to Premiere Pro 1.5 !!!

 

Also, Pro imports P6.5 project files...although never any of mine. I don't know what it is about them, it just won't read them.

 

So I'll keep on using both for now.

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That's horrible, what's the point of getting the upgrade if it makes you life harder and doesn’t even work! I also have to say that Adobe's tech support is horrible, and the fact that after a year they won’t even talk to you unless you pay makes me think that next time I might go with Discreet's fire.

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A couple years ago I was looking for an NLE solution and because of price constraints I had narrowed my search down to Premier or Vegas Video as they were around the same price. After trying both packages I ended up with Vegas as it was much more stable and you didnt have to wait for a pre-render to preview your work. Been using it since version 3 and now using 5 and still love it.

 

Just a thought,

 

-dave

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Then again, Sonic Foundry (who produces Vegas), located in Madison, is a very very crappy company. I've had 2 friends work there.

 

Sonic Foundry has since been bought out by Sony. Also Ive never had a problem with Sonic Foundry or now Sony in the past but then again I was a client and not an employee.

 

-dave

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