After Effects vs PP CS3?

Does After Effects have more RT preview power than PP CS3?

Christian,
Thanks for the info. I think Premiere Pro may have a better RT system for the way I like to edit.
Jim,
I have a core 2 dual and a Dual Core P4. The RT previews that have scaling (PIP and some transitions)will not look great no matter what because the RT preview mode is of much less quality than the rendered version. Getting a faster system (quad core) is not going to help. Because of the RT preview method the PIPs look better if I select deinterlacing to the PIP clip. The PIP would look better on any system (even a quad core) if deinterlacing is applied because of the RT method used by Adobe. This would not be the case if they opted for cubic linear sampling but I think it requires to much CPU power over the blinear resampling.
You can even talk to the techs at Adobe. I even took a sentence out of the manual to prove my point!
Have you tried deinterlacing a PIP clip on your system? If you would just do as I ask I imagine you would say. "Medeamajic I see what you mean. The PIP clip does look much smother if deinterlacing is apllied to the PIP clip for RT previews". This is because of the RT method used by Premiere Pro. A faster system will make no difference.

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-the After Effects Team
On 9/21/09 1:22 AM, "matt connolly"> wrote:
The following information was submitted on the Software Feature Request and Bug Report Form for After Effects
Name                       : Matt Connolly
Email Address              : <deleted>
Company/Institution        : THQ Studio Australia
Feature Request/Bug Report : Bug Report
Product                    : After Effects
Product Version            : CS3 8.0.2
Browser                    : Safari
Web Server                 :
Application Server         :
Database                   :
Operating System           : Windows XP
OS version                 : SP3
HTTPREFERRER               : https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
Feedback Report            : ******BUG******
ExternalObjects not available in ExtendScriptToolkit when Adobe After Effects is the exedcution target. ExternalObject objects can be created when the ExtendScript Toolkit application is the execution target.
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Apologies, upgrade from CS2 to CS3 is not available.
However, you have option to purchase After Effects CS6
http://www.adobe.com/products/catalog/cs6._sl_id-contentfilter_sl_catalog_sl_software_sl_c reativesuite6.html?start=20
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https://creative.adobe.com/plans
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