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Adobe Prelude
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[Tom Wolsky] “Isn’t that exactly what the production suite wants to be?”
The trouble with software suites is whether or not they offer “best of breed” products. They rarely do for every product in the suite. In Adobe’s case, Production Premium sold because of After Effects and Photoshop. In Final Cut Studio, Soundtrack Pro and Motion never gained widespread use. In the end, the better the tools “play with others”, the better they are for the users.
I think that means that for Prelude to gain traction outside of the Adobe suite, its metadata and rough-cutting info will have to be able to be migrated into FCP X, FCP 7 and Media Composer, as well as Premiere Pro. Maybe also to CatDV and some newsroom tools.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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According to Mooney, Prelude will send to Premiere using FCP7 XML. Not sure why it doesn’t use the same project type as Premiere so it can simply be opened by Premiere.
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] “Not sure why it doesn’t use the same project type as Premiere so it can simply be opened by Premiere.”
Probably doesn’t matter, since a cuts-only rough cut only needs a glorified EDL, if that. This could also be some foreshadowing related to CS6. Or maybe a single format allows easy export for a variety of apps, for instance, such as DaVinci Resolve or maybe their own Speedgrade.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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I don’t know whether you’re being a revisionist in favor of Apple, or you just haven’t used Bridge or any of the CS products much, but I, for one, was using, and very successfully, Adobe’s metadata within Bridge quite a few years ago in my job as Art Director at a broadcast station, to manage hundreds of thousands of graphics files, from QT movies and AVIs, to Targa, Tiff, JPEG, and other still formats. Sure, there were some limitations and some wrinkles, but I submitted issues to Adobe, and their products have improved based on user requests, something Apple, from what I’ve seen, hasn’t done yet.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com
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