I know this isn’t the feature request area – I’ve already sent adobe my letter.
But 100 requests are better than one!
I’m sure we’re all experiencing this major problem – that it takes *forever* to export anything, and longer than that when exporting from large projects. Even if you only want to export a 2 minute scene from a 30 minute feature, if your project is large (i.e. anything over 5 minutes long, god forbid multiple sequences) then you can and usually do end up waiting between 30 minutes and and hour(!!) while AME is ‘loading’ your project. This is a ridiculous waste of time and resources, since more often than not the project you’re exporting from is already open and in system memory. And you’re not inclined to continue working for fear it would slow AME even further. This double up process – while I see it’s point – makes Premiere Pro completely useless in any high pressure situation, where you need to churn out a piece of video as soon as someone asks for it. I’ve lost clients and damaged working relationships purely because I chose to use Premiere, and have now invested so many thousands of $$$ in Adobe that other software is not something I’d like to face, especially when Premiere is SOOO close to being good.
Is anyone else completely and UTTERLY fed up with this exporting debacle? If so, please let Adobe know before they release CS5, which according to the internet will probably be in a couple of months…still time to fix this!
AND… another thing… the autosave window – that really should be a *background* operation, no?? It’s painfully frustrating when you’re watching an edit with a client, and ten minutes in the autosave window comes up and STOPS the playback. This ruins the moment and can COMPLETELY RUIN the scene on first viewing for an audience or client. Yes, one could go to the trouble to enter prefs and turn AS off just for that moment, but I don’t do that fro fear of not remembering to turn it on and be faced with a lovely apologetic message saying for some unknown reason the software must terminate immediately… you know the ones…
Please feel free to report here other sticky issues wih premiere that prevent smooth workflow efficiency (and then send request to adobe). I’m sure Adobe would love to hear it!
