Smoke 2013 Changes Everything

[Andrew Richards]

With deference to the prior thread, it really does look like the Final Cut Extreme rumored years ago- FCP, Shake, Color, all in one app. Looks very impressive. I’m looking forward to the NAB presentation videos when they go up at the end of the week.

They posted some feature shorts today:
https://area.autodesk.com/nab2012

Best,
Andy

[Chris Harlan]

[Andrew Richards] “With deference to the prior thread, it really does look like the Final Cut Extreme rumored years ago- FCP, Shake, Color, all in one app. Looks very impressive. I’m looking forward to the NAB presentation videos when they go up at the end of the week.

They posted some feature shorts today:
https://area.autodesk.com/nab2012
“

I agree. It looks great. In fact, pretty much what I hoped FCP 8 would be. But… Before I get all yabba-dabba-doo, I’m gonna wait for a little more info. I’ll certainly download the June trial/Beta–whatever it is. But there is just so much that I can’t really see.

[Lance Bachelder]

We attended the Smoke Intro here in Vegas this afternoon – very cool looking app. Very deep – user friendly on top with the ability to go really deep into true 3D compositing. We have a Smoke kiosk in the AJA booth so I spent a few minutes playing with it. Very responsive on an iMac! It’s a different beast for sure – no play/pause spacebar, no JKL, even undo/redo is in a new place – definitely need the Smoke keyboard to find my way around. Looks very promising and at $3495 a crazy powerful editing and finishing station.

Gonna play with it in the booth as much as I can this week 🙂

Demo in June and available this fall…

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California

[Chris Harlan]

[Lance Bachelder] “Gonna play with it in the booth as much as I can this week 🙂
“

I want to hear about it, Lance! Keep your posts a comin’!

[Dermot Shane]

well let’s see..

paint system is gone?
No 3D tracker, No planner tracker… only the point tracker? So why have a 3D comp? What can you do with it? Replace a sky? Nope…. not without round tripping to say AE…
CC still sucks, and to add insult to injury, it’s not RT so you have to render the suckage…

yea, brilliant…

How’s the kool-aide?

[Lance Bachelder]

Will do – the AJA booth is next to the Autodesk booth and I think we’ll have an Autodesk editor in the booth too – I’ll be getting as much info and time in the app as I can. All the footage is Pro RES HQ running on an iMac and super responsive.

As a sidenote – the app I really was looking forward to – CS6 – looks like a toy compared to Smoke – I didn’t get to spend much time with it but it was so anti-climactic after Smoke. I plan to play with CS6 as much as I can too.

Also Autodesk showed a FCPX to Smoke edit and it looked flawless – so FCPX/Smoke could be a cool workflow for facilities.

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California

[Bobby Mosca]

-.^

[Richard Cardonna]

Its got to have a catch somewhere. They are not going to risk their highend products.

RC

[Lance Bachelder]

Kool-aid’s delicious, but apparently not as strong as whatever you’re smoking…

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California

[Craig Seeman]

[Lance Bachelder] “no play/pause spacebar, no JKL, “

That does it. I’m sticking with a “traditional NLE” like FCPX. How can it not have JKL and be considered professional? It’s a toy. It’s iSmoke.