Alex Hawkins
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Sorry I just finished watching the whole demo but is he kidding or what??!!
Imagine editing all day every day like that. My joints are cactus now. Imagine how they’d be if I’d started editing at 20 like that!
Phew!!
Alex Hawkins
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[Shane Ross] “This might be fine if ALL you do is editing via mouse. I do so much with keyboard shortcuts, “
Exactly! What’s quicker, flailing with your hands all over a screen or letting your fingers dance over a keyboard?
Mmmm
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Thanks guys for your responses. Very informative.
You’ve certainly given me food for thought and Mark I love your signature tagline but it would sure be nice to eventually not get beaten up…
Many Thanks.
Alex Hawkins
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Gee guys, all the man did was say wait until NAB. Hardly a middle finger!
I, for one, and many others, are very grateful for people like Todd’s presence and worthwhile assistance on this forum as well as people like Dennis in the Final Cut X Debate forum.
A slightly different presence and approach than certain other companies who feel that complete and utter silence is the best approach to an industry relying on their soft and hardware.
If you’re looking for middle fingers I can tell you where to go.
Alex Hawkins
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Thanks for your responses.
I’d have to say overall there wasn’t a whole lot of positiveness gleaned from my experience. And I was only editing a grabfest interspersed with montages and overlay.
My whole thing was just that the timeline did things I didn’t want it to do and I couldn’t get it to stop. Is that really something you get used to?
As you say Mark, I too was literally screaming and banging the desk during my session. This is interesting to me because you obviously persevered and have now seen the light, as it were. Mmmm maybe I should do the same but I keep getting shivers down my spine when I think about it.
But what is the real change of thinking you have to undergo to figure out how and why it was designed. The audio I found annoying with funny looking waveforms and didgy small green tracks.
At the moment I don’t really get the skimmer. For me I just couldn’t ‘feel’ it. Maybe that’s something that comes with time?
Interestingly though I just found it not very responsive. I kept getting the beachball and Im only editing SD XDCam. 4 discs worth. Approx 2 1/2 hours worth of footage. As time went on it became quite sluggish.
The timeline thing is the biggie though. To me a timeline is an open canvas where you ‘paint’. It should not be restrictive in any way at all. You decide where, when and how things go on it. Now I know that people will say, well of course you can still do that, but it seems to me that you have to jump through too many hoops to get what you want.
Anyway it was an instructive experience and I am intrigued by guys here whose initial experience was similar to mine and have pushed on and now are loving it.
Mmmm we shall see.
Cheers,
Alex Hawkins
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That would be great David.
I know I’d miss your insights and sage advice (witty and acerbic comments free of charge).
Cheers.
Alex Hawkins
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[David Roth Weiss] “BTW, effective immediately, I begin a new career phase as I move over to ProMax Systems, where I’ll be joining the post-production sales team in the ProMax Burbank offices.”
David,
Good luck and best wishes for your new future.
Are we still going to be graced with your portrait at the top of this (and various other) forum?
Kind Regards,
Alex Hawkins
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Hi Chris,
We only do SD XDCam so my response is limited to that I’m afraid.
I am running Lion 10.7.2 with the LHi. AJA Control Panel & Adobe Utilities 9.1. PPro 5.5.2
Basically all things are fine but you still get stuttering audio on the AJA SD timeline. You still need to play around with the audio hardware settings. Audio scrubs beautifully on non AJA timelines though.
The lagging clip issue is pretty much resolved too which is great.
You don’t say what driver version you’re using with the LHi? Do you have a reference signal going into your card?
I have no problems with SD component out. You might want to consider updating.
Alex Hawkins
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When’s Part 2 coming out . . . ?
Alex Hawkins
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[Jon Barrie] ” I am sure it will be resolved in upcoming versions, but currently with 5.5 the issue remains.”
Jon are you sure about this?
Seriously I did this yesterday without opening PPro at all, using AME 5.5.