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Editing program
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You cut a feature on a laptop???? in 4K???? fw800????
Blaspheme!
You mean you don’t need a suped up MacPro Sizzle Core with 96GB of RAM? Or the HP Equivalent???
And Izzy, as far as an editing program, are you freelance?
Right now, today, there is no best program. Everyone is putting their best foot forward. Avid has big announcements today, FCPX will get video out, and Adobe will probably announce something around NAB, I’d imagine.
FOr now, download all the trial versions, check them out, and sit tight. Of course if any freelance work you do is mostly dominated by a certain platform or another, then buy that. But I’m sure that’s pretty obvious.
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[Jeremy Garchow] You mean you don’t need a suped up MacPro Sizzle Core with 96GB of RAM? Or the HP Equivalent???
It only worked because I didn’t need to render out anything. When it came time to render that out, you better believe I want a workstation.
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[Gary Huff] “It only worked because I didn’t need to render out anything. When it came time to render that out, you better believe I want a workstation.”
I see. I guess a Thunderbolt connected Red Rocket card wouldn’t have helped either…
Sorry, this is getting off topic, but I couldn’t help it. I am glad it’s now here though, on record. 4k feature edited on laptop. 🙂
Yeah, I’m being a jerk.
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Gary, thanks.
How much footage were you dealing with?
Do you have an estimate of the number of sequences you had in one project by the end?
[Gary Huff] “there was a few minute load time once the project had to load all the footage.”
I am assuming by this that you mean this was time for the project to open each time you started?
Franz.
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Right! Could be years for FCP X!
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Jeremy, yes I freelance!
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[Franz Bieberkopf] How much footage were you dealing with?
1.6TB of 4K Red Footage, so not a whole lot.
Do you have an estimate of the number of sequences you had in one project by the end?
Around 90ish? Something like that. I made each scene its own sequence so I could play around with the order of things.
I am assuming by this that you mean this was time for the project to open each time you started?
Yes. The delay was only in the initial opening. Probably would have been faster with eSATA drives.
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[Izzy Tamang] “Jeremy, yes I freelance!”
By the way, we are changing that term to expensivelance. Don’t forget.
If you expensivelance on other people’s gear, then you will probably have to choose whatever will most likely get you employed. If you are your own island and you bring your gear, then Adobe is probably a good bet if you don’t want FCP anymore.
Around here, people run a little bit of everything.
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[Jeremy Garchow] Sorry, this is getting off topic, but I couldn’t help it. I am glad it’s now here though, on record. 4k feature edited on laptop. 🙂
Well, assembly edit. The actual edit is being done on a powerful Mac Pro. Like I said, it was great for getting things up and running fast, but once it comes render time, it was not a good solution.
Having the ability to go Thunderbolt is good for certain solutions, but I’m not sure I want that to be the only option. Having a single tower that you can pimp out has space advantages, especially in scenarios where you’re not part of a facility with rack space and the whole nine yards.
Plus, you have no idea what the Thunderbolt front is going to look like anyway.
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I can see laptop pull it off if you could make proxies and edit offline..i.e if you had the time to transcode like I had to using Redcine to prorez.
But sequence assembly doesn’t seem power gouging work.
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