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OK, what’s going on with Smoke?
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If it doesn’t then what can it be for mac users?
RC
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With so many people on this forum absolutely convinced the MacPro is EOL without replacement, what’s it going to run on?
Ahhh, i figured it out. Smoke for iPad at just $499!
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[Richard Cardonna] “If it doesn’t then what can it be for mac users?”
https://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/item?siteID=123112&id=14961350
And MacPros as well.
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[Craig Seeman] “With so many people on this forum absolutely convinced the MacPro is EOL without replacement, what’s it going to run on?”
An iMac or MacBook Pro with Thunderbolt (though I don’t think there’s currently any supported video output in that configuration.)
https://area.autodesk.com/blogs/marc-andre/test-11
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This is interesting but if it’s a big change let’s hope it’s in price. If they decide to intro a new NLE well I hope they make it better than what they’ve had because I hate editing in Smoke, and prefer using FCP or Avid to feed it. And also at some point Smoke needs to settle down some. It’s kind of annoying to have to re-learn the thing after every release. I mean the Discreet group is more aggressive about changes than any other software group I know of they’ll totally re-arrange things over night. I’m all for improvement but they need to build a good system and leave it alone to some degree.
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More than likely they will be bundling Luster with Smoke. I’d love to see a price drop to make it competitive with Avid and Adobe but my guess is no.
I used Smoke for about 6 months working with a local VAR. It was very frustrating when I was picking it up as the available training from Autodesk was somewhere between Slim, None and Zero. Smoke has a very radical GUI as well as it’s entire data structure is quite unique. If you think moving from FCP7 to FCPX is hard, hold on to your hats as Smoke is a different beast entirely. While you can use a mouse, it was designed and really needs to be used with a tablet. I was running it on a MBP over FW800 and it performed quite well so the concerns on iMac vs MacPro I do not believe are justified. I’ve not touched it now for about a year but at the time it did not support multiple monitors well. That may have changed.
All that said, Smoke is very powerful. It is best for an environment with multiple editors working on multiple jobs together. It is integrated with 3D applications very well and supports 3D compositing. The integrated effects that come with it are pretty amazing. It runs quite fast and once you get the hang of the interface you can operate it very efficiently.
The training has been vastly improved in a huge contribution by ( Grant Kay He has made a large number of training videos now that with some concerted effort on the part of the user you should be able to come up to speed fairly well on how to work Smoke.
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[Phil Hoppes] “More than likely they will be bundling Luster with Smoke.”
Unlikely. They’ve already done that on the Linux side. Flame Premium is the Flame/Smoke/Lustre bundle.
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I hate to say but I know what the news is and it is a very strategical move SMOKE is an amazing piece of software and with all the new hardware around it will defiantly cause trouble to the well established editing software …
Is it cost, maybe, is it the ability to work on lower machines, maybe – is it the solution mid to high end professionals are looking for – defiantly
I wish i was at NAB this year but I am in Brazil – it is defiantly going to be an amassing show !
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[Craig RussillRoy] “I am in Brazil….going to be an amassing”
There’s a pun in here. Really, there is.
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What can you say when they make such an app for Imac and not a mention of Mac Pro which would make this app scream. Not even a windows version.
O well Something to do while Apple puts a source monitor in fcpx.
RC
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