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[Neil Goodman] “The fact i have to wait for it to guess what kind of edit i want to do (trim/slip/roll/ripple) depending on where i put the cursor slows me down right there, and there and its extrmely clunky. Picking the best tool and just using it, instead of hoping it knows and waiting for i to tranform to the tool you want, is ten faster. “
What do you have to wait for? Using the Trim tool, you can perform ripple, roll, slip edits, depending where the cursor is positioned (and slip edits with Option). You don’t need to wait for anything. You also have the ability to nudge cuts, extend them to your playhead with shortcuts, etc. Feels pretty responsive to me.
[Neil Goodman] ” The Playhead jumps all over when you click in the project or story window or whaever you want to call it. FCP7 only effects the playhead if you click up there, not anywhere in the window. So ill have the playhead set on an inset point, click a clip and the playhead moves there , Not cool at all.”
This drove me nuts at first until I found out all you need to do is hold OPTION while clicking on a clip to leave the playhead where it is. So it’s cool after all.
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Ok, well thanks for clearing things up. The secondary story lines arent quite as limited as i thought.
As far as the Trim tool, i still love having a dedicated tool for each kind of edit.
As far as the way we cut interviews, im gonna stay out on my workflow. lol I understand how you say depending on what the main focus of your project is, that should me in the Primary, like for music videos, the music should be in the primary, etc. But for a interview, the talking head is the main story.
Neil Goodman: Editor of New Media Production – NBC/Universal
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If you are working with a MacBook Pro and cannot use an NVIDIA card, you won’t have GPU acceleration in the Mercury Playback Engine to assist with AVCHD playback. You might try lowering the screen resolution to 1/2 or less. It works rather like Unlimited RT in FCP that way.
For field editing AVCHD with a laptop, I actually recommend a PC with a qualified NVIDIA card and 8GB of RAM or more.
Kevin Monahan
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Adobe After Effects
Adobe Premiere Pro
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[Jean-François Robichaud] “This drove me nuts at first until I found out all you need to do is hold OPTION while clicking on a clip to leave the playhead where it is. So it’s cool after all.”
That’s a great tip – thanks. I discovered you can also hover the mouse cursor over the clip and hit “C”. Not sure which one I like better!
NT
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Kevin are there any PC laptops that you could mention that are qualified to use with Adobe Premiere CS 5.x?
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One thing: Speed.
I started my editing journey with Premiere Pro CS5, I installed MB Looks for grading. I edit AVCHD native. I have a quadcore i5 desktop with 6GB RAM. I cannot in anyway have real-time playback with even just 1 layer of MB Looks applied. That’s just ONE MB Looks layer. And I have mercury playback engine activated!
Now with FCPX, after turning off “Backgroud render” in playback prefferences, I can attach 5 layers of color correction, 3 effects on a 1080p AVCHD clip (non transcoded) and I get real-time playback every time..Effects preview even works even with all those layers of edit. Hardware? I use the same desktop I have above, hackintoshed…so that is a NON-mac optimised hardware. To think that this still kick Premeire’s ass in playback is amazing!
Biggest Like No. 2: Export speed.
Same clip, same length, same color grade with MB Looks, I exported using the same bit rate. Export time = 15 mins.
With FCPX = 90 seconds.
I think that says it all. SPEED is FCPXs best attribute. You can start editing and tagging even when your just ingesting the media, hitting I+O+F is the best rough clip organization workflow ever..you can immediately separate all the usable sections of each clip youve made, and its amazing. for quick edits on an all digital capture + distribution, FCPX is king.
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[Andrew Stone] “Kevin are there any PC laptops that you could mention that are qualified to use with Adobe Premiere CS 5.x?
-Andrew”
Hey Andrew,
Since I’m pretty new to the PC world, I would post that question on our Premiere Pro hardware forum. Those guys love helping users get super fast editing systems.https://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere/hardware_forum
Qualified NVIDIA cards are here: https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/tech-specs.html
Kevin Monahan
Sr. Content and Community Lead
Adobe After Effects
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[Andrew Stone] “Kevin are there any PC laptops that you could mention that are qualified to use with Adobe Premiere CS 5.x?”
While we don’t qualify systems per se, I assume that what you’re talking about is a good laptop that provides GPU hardware acceleration with Mercury Playback Engine. A lot of the field guys have HP 8740 Elitebook laptops. They are pricey but they are dreamy too.
The engineering in the laptop is really excellent (very apple like) but unlike the MacBookPro, it doesn’t compromise power for the sake of form factor. Like it or not, you have to obey the laws of physics and Apple chooses to worry about form factor to the detriment of processing power. HP forgoes form factor for power.
Practically speaking, this means that the HP has a limited battery life when doing real work – less than an hour for sure. It also has a big, honking power supply that is uncool. What you do get is a laptop that can take 16GB of RAM and has a Quadro 5000M GPU in it. Connect this laptop to some decent storage and you have a very nice system that gives you true desktop like power.
So, you have to decide what you’re really after. Both the MBP and the HP have a lot to offer, but they take different routes to the end result.
Dennis – Adobe
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Thanks Dennis, thanks Kevin,
That is exactly the kind of machine I will need… one that has ample CUDA power to throw at editing and color correction.
To the multitude of Mac based editors that are planning to move over to PC based workflow, you will want to make note of this laptop. Be prepared though for a bit of sticker shock. When you kit it out, the price will range from the high 4s to about 6 grand, if you spec it out with a Dreamcolor display and the high end NVIDIA offering and that was with an 18% discount. The one I configured the way I wanted was $7222. prior to discount… just so you know.
Dennis, similarly is their a desktop machine that would come down in the same category, as a good starting point for an editing workstation?
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Was skettical at first but once looking at some tutorials and looking into it, I see and excellent potential for a database-driven, 64 bit new program. FCP X is not the old dog but a new puppy that will soon mature.. Stay tuned for now and wait for its upgrade cycle .
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