On Wed, 20 May 1998 18:46:20 GMT, alyn@netcom.com (Alyn) wrote:

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>It's also been crashing a lot on in NT4.0. My system has been otherwise
>rock solid with a Miro DC30+ and a spark. The crashes are very annoying
>as they seem to have different causes each time.
>
>Features in 5.0 are great except they disabled the MOST important
>feature to me and I think many DV software-only codec users, that is the
>Preview to RAM mode. In this mode with a high end Pent II system you
>could basically preview DV footage with many layers and effects in REAL
>TIME to see if everything was roughly what you wanted before you
>committed to a render. In 4.2 I could preview 4 layers of video and 10
>tracks of mixed audio in REAL TIME in a 360X220 window which allowed me
>to rough edit extremely fast. This ability is GONE in 5.0! To preview DV
>fooatge which any kind of layering or audio mixing you now HAVE to RENDER
>to DISK which makes editing DV software-only codec clips a total drag.
>
>Have called Adobe about this and they are having their engineers look
>into this. If any users want this utility back you can pressure Adobe by
>calling and asking that this feature be put back in the program.
>
>Kevin Elders

We received Premier 5 a few days ago. With a Spark DV system,
I miss being able to scrub through the timeline and see the
effects/filters/transitions in the preview window without
first needing to render them (unless I have missed something...).
This feature is BASIC, given the long preview rendering time,
to be able to exactly adjust what is going to occur in the
rendered video. Without this (good as the sound control is),
I will be staying with version 4.2... (And maybe I am just
used to the 4.2 interface, but I also prefer it to the one
in version 5.)