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If you were to build a new edit suite for 2013 and beyond…
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I personally prefer Mac Pros. For editing, the current iMacs are fine, especially for FCP X. However, if you run Resolve, the Mac Pro, even an older one, will outperform the iMacs.
If you meant problems in the shared environment then I’m not sure. I am not the one usually running that room. To my knowledge there have been no issues.
Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
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[Pieter Viljoen] “If Premiere will allow me to switch between source and record in my timeline I’d like it even more.”
I’m curious about what you mean here…do you mean you’d like the timeline to show the contents of the source monitor when that has received focus in the application? Does Avid offer this, and if so, could you tell me what that does for you (Serious question…I’m a new Premiere convert, and strongly considering MC7 as my secondary option)?
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Justin,
It’s a way to work a bit more intimately with the source. If it’s just a clip, I can look at the audio waveforms and it is also very useful when your source is a sequence . It’s just a way I like to work. I’m betting it is something Adobe will include soon. At NAB a lot of editors approached them about this,
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[Justin Crowell] “do you mean you’d like the timeline to show the contents of the source monitor when that has received focus in the application? Does Avid offer this”
Yes. It is a very useful part of MC. You can flip back and forth between your timeline and anything loaded in the source monitor, which has its own timeline. This is how you see source audio waveforms, for instance. This allows MC to excel at sequence to sequence editing. Say that you are slimming down a sellects reel–you load the sequence into the source monitor and then work from the source timeline, choosing your ins and out as you go along. Or, say you are selecting audio tracks from an eight channel source file, and you only want Dia and SFX, which you need to locate because you are not sure which channels they are on, and you probably want them patched to different tracks; that’s very fast to do by simply flipping over to the source timeline, seeing what’s what, and patching.
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That’s really interesting, and something I’d definitely find useful. Another reason for me to consider MC7…
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Thanks very much everyone. I’ve spent a lot of time with Walter Biscardi’s PP post/blog today and I’m coming around to the idea of going Adobe, but I’m going to have to lose the chip on my shoulder first. It’s shifting. I have always been obsessive about getting my media nicely organised before starting a job, and I don’t resent spending that time, but maybe I’m being old fashioned.
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