

Another is that third parties cannot provide a fluid custom UI experience within Premiere Pro.Īfter Effects, on the other hand, “eats its own dog food,” and has no effects that don’t use the public SDK. Have you noticed that Premiere’s own 3-way color corrector has never been ported to After Effects? This is one consequence of the Premiere team’s choice not to use their own plug-in SDK.

In the case of Premiere Pro, the slowness can be bad. On some systems this can make UI interaction for third-party effects with Custom UIs slow. They use window configurations and graphics drawing routines that third-party developers don’t have access to. However, you may also find that mouse interaction with the “Custom UIs” (the 3-Way and HSL color wheel controls) is sluggish.īoth Adobe Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro bypass their own plug-in SDKs for their native 3-way color correctors. Depending on your project resolution and graphics hardware, you may see some pretty amazing performance, thanks to Adobe’s realtime Mercury Engine. If you’re considering Colorista II for use in Premiere Pro CS5, please download the demo first and try before you buy.
