Flame ON! – Somebody doesn’t like Adobe

[Charlie Austin]

[Don Walker] “Really? I’ve been curious about what type of work could be done on MacBook Air with FCPX. I never thought about any of the Adobe products running well on one.”

Well, I really haven’t done a lot on it, but X seems to run fine, even doing EZ multicam stuff (2or3 angles) MC 6.5 and Pr run OK. I haven’t pushed it, or done anything requiring heavy GPU lifting, but i think it’d be OK for quick, basic cutting. YMMV as they say. Maybe I’ll bring something crazy home from work and see how it does, just for laughs… 🙂

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~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[Bret Williams]

I would think the air would fair pretty well. We have a low end 2012 MacBook Pro (not a retina, not an air, just an i5) and just yesterday I hooked up a 5400rpm USB3 Lacie Rugged drive with some Canon 4k footage (from a 1D C? ) on it and was able to play back the proxys without dropping frames in X in better performance mode. Amazing that the footage also worked natively as 4k, but very stuttery of course. The air has a better graphics card I believe.

Right next to this little laptop I was editing the same footage in legacy on a nice Mac Pro. But of course in legacy we had to run it through plural eyes to sync the audio, and transcode all the footage with 5DtoRGB just to use it. I wonder how CS6 fares with the whole 4k proxy thing? Sounds like they’ve got the audio sync features in CSNext, but I haven’t seen enough of the multi cam.

[Dennis Radeke]

I will recuse myself on debating his assertions but merely embrace what’s already been inferred – may the best NLE (for you!) win.

Rising above the noise (or fray in this case),
Dennis – Adobe guy

[Joseph W. bourke]

Watch out Dennis! It seems Adobe is being blamed for everything from the Bay of Pigs Invasion to Global Warming! I think there must be something in the Cloud the last couple of days…

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

[Gary Huff]

[Joseph W. Bourke] ”
Unproven claims and fiery rhetoric seems to be the theme of the day…”

There must have been some Merlot involved!

[Chris Kenny]

[Steve Connor] “They will”

They have.

(I’m not sure if that page loads unless you’re logged into a YouTube account with its own channel. Basically, YouTube offers a web-based video editing interface.)

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[Ryan Holmes]

[Michael Hadley] “Having at least 3 viable options is good for competition and ultimately good for editors. “

+1 for this.

I don’t understand why people believe the NLE market has to be a zero sum game (referring to the sited blog post, not anybody in this thread). For FCP X to succeed doesn’t mean Premiere Pro has to fail or vice versa. Anymore than for Apple to succeed Microsoft has to fail. Companies can and should carve out their own user-base and support them. These company versus company notions seem repetitive year after:

Apple vs Microsoft
Google vs Microsoft
Google vs Apple
Apple vs Samsung
Apple vs Adobe vs Avid vs Autodesk

For one company to do well doesn’t mean the others dry up and die. It just may be that each is targeting and catering to a different aspect of the market. As a former FCP7 editor turned to PPro I’m glad to see FCPX adding in features so quickly. It’s good for the market. It’s good for the users of FCPX. It’s good for competition. FCPX doesn’t work in our workflow, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t work for somebody. I don’t need to bash a NLE just because it doesn’t fit my style/workflow. Maybe others do?

Just my $.02

Ryan Holmes
http://www.ryanholmes.me
@CutColorPost

[Rafael Amador]

Wop!!
The link doesn’t work anymore.
rafael

[David Eaks]

Not working for me either. Lets try this one-

https://www.fcproxuniversity.com/FCPro_X_University/Extra_Credit/Entries/2013/4/10_What_Is_Adobe_Afraid_Of.html

[Craig Seeman]

Looks like the page has been revised and updated.