welchphoto wrote:

Also I saw a clip by Jason  Levine did I hear him right you have to make all changes like levels with manually input key frames? You can not run the tracks and adjust with the faders? IS that right? Really?

Bad news: Yes, I'm afraid that Jason is quite correct about that as far as CS5.5 is concerned...

Good news: It's fixed in Audition CS6! Back to a more normal way of writing automation. The issue with CS5.5 is that it was one of the features that didn't make the cut due to major time constraints.

Is that version 5 of Premiere? There never has been a version 5 of Audition (or v.4 for that matter). It went straight from v.3.01 to CS5.5.

welchphoto wrote:

Really one should not remove features only add them and make them better.

But that is what happens! The only snag is that because of all of the complaining from just about everybody  about the amount of time it took to get them all into new versions, they started releasing incomplete versions in between...

Oh and there has been a version 4 of Audition - if you look at the info page, you'll find that CS5.5 is Audition 4, and the new version, when you get it, is Audition 5. For some strange reason though, they've become known by the CS numbers rather than the more sensible version numbers.

Harmonise? That's one way of looking at it, yes. The other way is that Adobe is enforcing conformity on it!

But really it makes some sense, I suppose, and the reason isn't that hard to find. In any given release of CS, the inter-app hooks are designed to work just so. So for instance, Audition 1.5 or even Audition 3 isn't going to play anything like as well as Audition 4 is with the rest of CS5.5. And I expect that this degree of 'compatibility' (if that's what it is) will continue. So Audition 5 is going to be better integrated into CS6 than any other version, regardless of what other features are or aren't there. It will be interesting to see how well Audition 5 works with rest of CS5.5 - I have no information about that at all.

I used the 'harmonise' word because I've got into the habit of using it to mean 'enforced standardisation between departments' - it's a buzzword where I work.

I'm getting into video, and I'm looking forward to/dreading how Audition is going to work with my program, Power Director.  If the two programs don't work well together, I'll get Premiere Elements and expect them to harmonise. :-)

I have a version of Premier Elements a couple of releases old.  Unless things have changed, one of the things they leave out compared to "grown up" Premiere is the hooks for Audio post.

therealdobro wrote:

 

Bob, what are you using Premiere for? 

Mainly just "home movies" and stitching stills I've taken into a slide show with music.  My serious video days ended about ten years ago and I don't even have a video camera (other than my phone) any more.

Alas, I bought my D-SLR (Nikon) a model or two before they started including a video facility.  It takes far too good a still for me to justify replacing it though!