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I LOVE MY MAC! or… the only things I miss…
Just had this wonderful Zen-like feeling, as all my editing & effects apps danced to my muse, with the few seconds of rendering giving me time for news & Cow… “Expose”-ing between the 15 or so running apps… Compressor churning…. approvals FTP’ing… and it felt so RIGHT.
What do I miss from the “old days”? not much… the intern bringing me snacks (…”you KNOW we like snacks, Zim”…), the “feel” of editing on Quantel… all the pretty lights in a linear suite… union “Golden Time”…. but until I sell the hacienda & toss the FCP suite in a motorhome so I can edit in the National park du’ jour, it doesn’t get much better than this.Bob Woodhead / Atlanta
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Amen Brother!
System A Info G5/Dual 2 – 10.3.6 – QT v6.5.2 – 4GB ram – Radeon 9800Pro – Lacie FW800 L1 RAID via Lacie PCI card and internal – Decklink Extreme – Wacom 6×8 System B is identical except: 2GB ram – Decklink SP – Radeon 9600 – Pro Tools
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Yea, but don’t you miss that small amount of free time you got while waiting for a 90 min reel of 1-inch tape to rewind from the end back to the beginning just to edit in that one scene? I was the master of the two minute cat-nap.
Tom -
Amen to that too!!!! There are some drawbacks to these wonderful boxes of technology. I, too, miss those catnaps. But I have learned that if you over complicate and After Effects project, you can get a nice long nap while its rendering.
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The thing I’m going to miss most when I’m finally provided a new G5 with FCP, I’m currently on a 11 year old Media100, is getting near the end of projects and needing to render them out. This is a great reason to take a long 2 or 3 hour lunch. I’m able to say “I’m rendering out a project now, there’s nothing I can do anyway…I’m going to lunch.” Then they, the bosses, ask me, “When will it be done?” As to which I reply, “Don’t really know, but I’m guessing a few hours, the project was 2 minutes long…that’s a long render!”
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Yea, I just ordered a new G5 that will be much faster than my trusty old dual 1Ghz G4. I guess that will result in shorter lunch breaks as well. Could stand to loose a few pounds anyway. 🙂
Oh well, I just hope it’s as stable as my current machine. It’s a rock.
Crossing my fingers!
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Hate to break it to you, but all this RT? It’s usually RT Preview. So the end result is that you still have to render before output.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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Yes, but the renders take much less time for a given effect than they used to.
I guess i’ll just to add more stuff and filters to each clip to make up the difference.
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Oh, you definitely still need those render breaks.
We all need our coffee!Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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Uncompressed HD editing, lots and lots of coffee renders!
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Big difference between render now versus rendering 11 years ago.
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