CS6 is released – so what now?

[Bret Williams]

Wait for the smoke to clear.

[Franz Bieberkopf]

… Lightworks still to come.

Franz.

[Bernard Newnham]

“apart from the small matter of the Mac Pro”

Easy – buy a PC.

B

[Andrew Richards]

[Bret Williams] “Wait for the smoke to clear.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CdVTCDdEwI

Best,
Andy

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[Chris Harlan]

[Steve Connor] “So that’s it, if you’re moving on from FCS3 then all our options are now before us (apart from the small matter of the Mac Pro)

Has the release of CS6 enabled you to make a decision about your future NLE of choice?
“

I’m playing with it a bit, but I’m also working, so I’m not playing with it a lot. I like a lot of what I see, but I’ve seen some stability issues as well. Could be me, could be it, could be my laptop. Can’t really tell. But it is too soon for me to hop on and say yeee-haa! If I do decide that this is going into the FCP 7 slot, next to Media Composer–and there is a fair chance I will–then I will slowly integrate it into my work habits through summer–and be prepared to power use it in fall. I’m also still interested in Smoke, but some elements of that may be far afield of where I am headed, so, again, I will play with that through the summer. The thing is–dag nabit!–I still like FCS 3. But, hey, its great to have these choices.

[Frank Gothmann]

Finished my first job with CS6 today. Discovered a few bugs but no deal breakers. Quite pleased with the release,better than I thought it would turn out, promise of more great things to come and no stability issues for me so far. Still waiting for Edius 6.5 in June, feature list sounds splendid and, together with Avid, it’s the most rock-solid app for tape in and out plus it just screams with speed at certain tasks.
Path is clear. Jumping between Edius and Premiere, depending on the type of job.
We also have an Avid for certain things that come in but it won’t be my major NLE.
It took quite a long time and lots and lots of experimenting but we now have the entire toolset together to replace FCP studio and the Mac and have an equal if not better and faster workflow implementation across the board.

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[Alex Hawkins]

We’ll be staying on the Adobe Creative Suite bandwagon. We’re fairly chuffed about where it’s headed. It suits our needs and Adobe seem to be a good company to deal with. Open and communicative.

We’re also looking at the HPZ820’s. We really like our MacPros and OSX so we might even run them side by side for a while.

I’m registered for the Smoke trial so we’ll give that a burl when it’s released.

All in all, I’m a happy little vegemite at the moment.

Alex Hawkins
Canberra, Australia

[Oliver Peters]

It certainly should never be an “either-or” scenario. However, there seem to be three models shaping up for many.

1. The complete suite environment. This is CS6 and it basically replaces FCS. In fact, it appears to one-up FCS by quite a bit with a far better combination of tools.

2. The everything-in-one-app. That’s largely the Avid approach, especially with Symphony. Consider that with Symphony, you get BCC8, AvidFX and quite a few audio plug-ins – all of which run inside the NLE interface.

3. The tool box approach. This is probably where X fits best. Consider X + utilities + Smoke + Logic + Resolve. Seems like a very compelling small shop solution. Deploy X on all stations for basic cutting and then one each of the other apps for the “hero” rooms.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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[David Lawrence]

[Steve Connor] “So that’s it, if you’re moving on from FCS3 then all our options are now before us (apart from the small matter of the Mac Pro)

Has the release of CS6 enabled you to make a decision about your future NLE of choice?”

Well, I’m obviously impressed, but first impressions are one thing and reality is another. I’ll be transitioning but the transition won’t happen completely overnight.

For me two big issues are plug-ins and rendering/output workflow. Working the Adobe way will take getting used to. I need to run benchmarks and get a sense of what my expectations should be. Then see how it works in the real world.

For work with my LA partners, losing iChat Theater Preview will be a big bummer. We’ve gotten used to remote collaborative edit sessions and it makes our process much more efficient. Not ready to buy a AJA box just to use with Skype.

I’ll download the Smoke trial out of curiosity but for the work I do it’s way overkill.

Lightworks is interesting too.

Will even keep FCPX around. I think for certain kinds of projects it’s perfect.

Sticking with MacOS so that rules out Edius and other PC NLEs

That really leaves PrPro and Avid and for my day-to-day needs, PrPro is a much better fit.

I’m happy we have so much choice this year.

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[Bill Davis]

[Oliver Peters] “It certainly should never be an “either-or” scenario. However, there seem to be three models shaping up for many.”

Oliver,

I think that’s a very well-reasoned analysis.

Apple has definitely gone in a very different direction from the design goals of the past.

I remain convinced Apple’s approach is designed to better meet the needs those who will pursue editing as a personal craft at every level including creating professional business content – rather than as a corporate job specialty for those who occupy seats in larger institutional settings. But regardless, there should be tools for editors at all levels.

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