Andrew Kimery
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What year is the MBP you are using? It sounds like a 2011 model (the 670m is an Nvidia card, did you mean 6770m?).
You can try upgrading the RAM to 16, replacing the factory HDD with an SSD and setting your playback resolution to 1/4 (which equates to 1080p when working with 4K), but it’s still a nearly 6yr old machine so editing 4K smoothly on it just might not be realistic.
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[greg janza] “so the notion of fretting about $120 seems silly. It’s true that getting money back is nearly impossible these days but luckily it’s a nominal amount.”
For paid work I would kinda agree, but for a non-revenue generating personal project $120 is a steep price to pay (especially if you are Bill and have been getting double charged by Adobe for years due to a clerical error that they seem unable to fix). For reasons like this I don’t use subscription software for any of my personal projects (home videos, home photos, etc.,).
[Scott Witthaus] “The CC subscription model is a bit “iffy” on updates (for me): This last update, Premiere and Photoshop are fine. After Effects, however, thinks it’s in trial mode and started a 7 day free trial (Hey Adobe, how about 30 days?). Maybe I am snake-bit as well, but it seems every CC update creates a new “puzzle” to solve. “
Not everyone will have the same experience, but I’ve been subscribing since CS6 and never had an update/licensing problem. On the flip side, w/in the first 6 months of Avid shifting to their new sales model 2-3 years ago I had a show stopping licensing problem that required a phone call to Avid to fix. I had uninstalled an old version of MC before deactivating first so that prevented me from activating any other MC install (even a re-install of the version I just uninstalled). Hopefully they allow activation/deactivation via the Avid App or the web these days, but back then they didn’t.
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Sorry to hear about your continued troubles with CC, Bill. You seem to be snake bit in this regard.
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IIRC Apple and RED had a previous partnership very early on, but interest/development on the Apple side fizzled rather quickly so the partnership didn’t last very long.
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[Bill Davis] “I’d love to be educated about how the Premiere or AVID editing operations are improving and evolving.”
News is easy enough to come by passively by just using Twitter and FB. If websites are more your thing I’d suggest starting with the following:
Oliver’s blog
https://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/ProVideo Coalition
https://www.provideocoalition.com/Creative COW
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[Tero Ahlfors] “VR is dope and we have a bunch of VR projects going on. That said 360 videos aren’t VR and it drives me up the wall when people keep saying VR when they mean 360 videos.”
I’ve very guilty of using the two interchangeably even though I know they are different.
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[Bill Davis] “That was my point.”
Saying that X is built on a database but expecting readers to infer that you mean that X has range based keywording is expecting a quite a bit. Maybe just say that X has range based keywording next time? 🙂
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[andy patterson] “I am thinking BMD will have photo/graphics program one of these days.”
Who do you think they will buy? Pixelmator or Affinity?
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[Bill Davis] “Over time, they’ve been focused on new underpinning ideas like extending the user/database exposure, re-thinking and extending the magnetic timelines capabilities and creating a new database capabilities subset for audio with Roles.
Now that the code for all those ideas (and more) are time tested and in place – they see how all that work is poised to help those customers with the largest and most complex workflows and they are starting to set up a central place in the heart of the American Media industry to help their customers leverage the new capability against the increasingly complex workflows of today.
“It’s not an either/or situation though which is what has frustrated many users. There’s no reason this position couldn’t have existed for the past six years (who knows, maybe the Trashcan MP blunder could’ve been avoided all together).
Years ago I used to work at a large facility that was Apple-centric (dozens of Mac NLEs, huge Xsan, primed to roll out Final Cut Server, etc.,) and the in-house tech integrators had direct lines to enterprise level support inside Apple. That close support disappeared after things like Xsan and Final Cut Legend were shuttered. It’s not like this a market that Apple accidentally stumbled into/created like Canon did with 5D. They made many specific choices to enter it, grow within it, and then back away from it.
I look forward to the good things that will come out of this, because with the amount of Mac-centric workflows in this part of the industry it would be nice if Apple stopped being so aloof.
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[David Mathis] ” My guess is the movie was cut the old fashioned way.”
Is that the new euphemism for using Avid? ????
Quick blurb about the post process at the bottom of the article.
https://americancinemaeditors.org/dunkirk/
[David Mathis] “I can only imagine what strain anything above 4K would subject even a high end, fully decked out computer regardless of what OS is used.”
Just use proxies… or build a mega-rig like Vashi Nedomansky did and edit in 6K.
https://vashivisuals.com/6-below-editing-in-6k/
EDIT: Started to post, stopped to answer questions at work and by the time I came back and hit ‘send’ Oliver had already beat me to the punch.