Multicam fiasco isn't over... it just got moved!
PierreLouisBeranek Jun 9, 2013 2:12 PMI was overjoyed to find out that Premiere Pro CC will bring us something Adobe users have never had until now... a multicam tool that actually works! (i.e. the painfully stupid 'auto switch back to original camera angle when playback stops' problem has finally been fixed. ALLELUIA!)
However, this video proves that the problem hasn't been so much fixed, as it has been relocated: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-premiere-pro-cc/using-clip-mixer-to-adjust-volume-and-pan/.
This video illustrates, rather to the presenter's repeated frustration, that whenever a user records audio levels live using the new Clip Mixer, stopping playback switches to the original level before playback started (jump to 6:00 into the video to see this happen). Sounds familiar multicam users?
At this point, I have to ask: SERIOUSLY ADOBE????!!!!!
The pre-CC multicam tool in Premiere was a royal PITA to use due to the serious, and rather unthinkable IMO, lapse of logic in the workflow. So now, after years of allowing this nonsense to go on, Adobe finally fixes Premiere's multicam workflow only to relocate its completely unwanted 'auto switching' bug to their new Clip Mixer??????
As good of an improvement as Premiere CC may be, this clear-as-a-bell workflow issue is making me lose faith in Adobe. You'd think that at least 1 programmer on PP's team would have to good sense to see the workflow problem here. Are we supposed to believe that the quality control at Adobe is this weak? Or was this done on purpose so that 5 years from now it will finally be fixed and touted as a 'new feature'? (For the record, the fixed Multicam is NOT a new CC 'feature' IMO. It's just a fix to a problem that never should have been created nor passed QC in the first place.)
Hopefully the 'auto switch back to original audio level' is just a bug that will be fixed soon, rather than a conscious design decision. Otherwise, I cannot express how disappointing it is to be treated by Adobe as users who don't know any better than to understand just how wrong it is for keyframes to automatically appear when playback stops. Either way, once I can test PP CC for myself, to confirm the serious issue that the video above illustrates, I will be sending Adobe plenty of official Feature Requests/Bug Reports for them to fix their new tool and make it work properly in accordance to sane human logic. I would encourage everyone else to do the same.
End of rant.




