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Adobe Prelude
I’ve just seen this: https://bit.ly/zDf52c
Not much info at the moment, but Prelude is supposedly a new tool for logging, annotating, transcoding and exporting. Although the interface on one image looks strangely similar to FCPX!
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[Ian Bailey] ” Although the interface on one image looks strangely similar to FCPX!”
Check out eyesight 😉 Not everything with a dark UI looks like FCP X. In fact, Apple is rather late to the game with this UI design. Adobe’s UI design has looked like this for years.
In any case, I would expect a rather strong NAB showing for Adobe this year. Clearly their update of the Production Premium bundle (whatever shape that takes) is going to be the logical replacement for the various elements of Final Cut Studio. That’s not to take away from FCP X; but if you find it lacking, then Adobe is seeking to capitalize on the difference.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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Interesting that the Prelude import interface, skimming, and selection marking looks very much like iMovie.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Coming in 2012 “Complete Training for FCPX” from Class on Demand
“Final Cut Pro X for iMovie and Final Cut Express Users” from Focal Press -
[Tom Wolsky] “Interesting that the Prelude import interface, skimming, and selection marking looks very much like iMovie.
“Someone mentioned “hover scrub”!
Steve Connor
“FCPX Agitator”
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As an aside… Adobe Sundance filmmaking panel:
https://tv.adobe.com/watch/adobe-at-sundance-/how-technology-is-influencing-storytelling-and-film/#
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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[Oliver Peters] “As an aside… Adobe Sundance filmmaking panel:
https://tv.adobe.com/watch/adobe-at-sundance-/how-technology-is-influencing-...”
Ah ha! Nice distraction technique (unless you’re browsing on an iOS device), but that won’t stop me speculating about Preludes similarity to FCPX despite a complete lack of information!
Seriously though, if this is a metadata centered app that includes logging and annotating tools, then maybe Adobe and Apple are seeing the same puck.
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It doesn’t look like iMovie at all. Why? Because there’s a timeline with thumbnails. Are you serious? It looks pretty much like all Adobe apps have looked in the past years, totally consistent with their CS UI.
Frankly, given the current climate they’d have to be suicidal to make their apps look like iMovie or FCPX. -
Distraction? LOL! As far as metadata, Adobe has been on that bandwagon long before Apple. If anything Prelude looks like a mash-up between OnLocation and Bridge. In fact, maybe OnLocation is gone. We’ll see at NAB.
Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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I’m with you on that, Oliver. OnLocation never quite seemed to gain the legs it needed to bridge the gap (no pun intended) between Bridge and the off-line logger/project organizer it hoped to be. But Adobe has a way of listening to its users, dropping things that don’t work, and adding things that do.
For my money, I’d much rather see Bridge incorporate the best features of OnLocation, then the reverse. I’ve used Bridge for years to manage (and organize using Metadata) broadcast media and graphics numbering in the tens of thousands. It works like a charm. Now all it needs is the ability to log, mark in and out points, and a few other features and fixes (some of the motion media handling in Bridge can be buggy, expecially in CS5), and it will be close to perfect.
Joe Bourke
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I do wonder what the Adobe galaxy will look like. The Lightroom 4 announcement heralds: “Extended video support for organizing, viewing, and making adjustments and edits to video clips.”
https://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom4/?promoid=JOTFB
So I do wonder about having Prelude, Bridge, OnLocation, Lightroom all with slightly different but largely overlapping functionality …
Franz.
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[Joseph W. Bourke] ” OnLocation never quite seemed to gain the legs it needed to bridge the gap”
As I recall, OL started out life as DVRack, which was acquired by Adobe. Originally it was simply a virtual VTR to record and monitor FW-based video signals on a laptop. So from that base, Adobe has been evolving it as the recording portion of an ecosystem to fit between Story on one end and Flash at the other. Their whole plan is to use Dublin Core metadata (open source) throughout the whole process with the hope that other companies will make tools that also tap into this, since it’s not proprietary to Adobe. Of course, facing the same tape versus file-based acquisition as everyone else, OL has out of necessity had to change.
[Joseph W. Bourke] “I’d much rather see Bridge incorporate the best features of OnLocation, then the reverse. I’ve used Bridge for years to manage (and organize using Metadata) broadcast media and graphics numbering in the tens of thousands.”
I think what you are seeing is Adobe build a system that seamlessly works with all images (stills and motion) using similar tools. For example, Lightroom 4 Beta handles videos in ways that earlier versions couldn’t.
I suspect this is just the first of what will likely be some interesting surprises at NAB.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com
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