Angelo Lorenzo
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Is it a still image? Why not just selectively clone out lights for the logo in Photoshop and then build the “reveal” in after effects?
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In the three way color corrector’s secondary settings, look at adjusting the luma slider, especially the highlight end. The specular highlights in the skin may be near the same values as some spots in the background which causes the splotchiness.
That would be my first guess… just a slightly unrefined secondary selection.
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To point to a reason, Adobe uses RED’s SDK (developer tools and code) to handle RED footage, and RED does not move any functionality to the GPU.
A gap in my knowledge is that the RED rocket actually assists with wavlet decompression. A misnomer since the quality selection is marked as debayer quality… *sigh* (Techy nerd stuff)
The consensus on the RED forums is that the RED Rocket is purpose built and still far more efficient at the task than any GPU on the market today or in the near future. https://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?86738-Can-we-please-please-please-have-some-NVIDIA-ADOBE-RED-love is worth looking through.
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Erik, you may want to revisit Dropbox. You may be limited on space in general with their free accounts, but the Pro accounts have no such file size limitation as long as you have the space available. I regularly send zip files of retouched images to clients that are 4-6 gigs or more.
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Tero, you have me there. The playback engine does still help with the normal stuff, I should have made that more clear 🙂
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Set your in and out point in your timeline as normal. You can use lift (shortcut 😉 and then undo (command+z or control+z). Since the lifted portion will remain on your clipboard, you can go to your other sequence and paste.
Not quite as intuitive as you’d think, but it works and it’s only an extra keystroke.
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I agree with the use of L and J cuts with judicious use of cross fades as well as cut aways/reaction shots if you have them. Also, if appropriate, you could integrate illustrated examples of their answers, infographics, etc if you are hurting for cutaways.
If it’s a topic transition then crossfades wouldn’t be out of place either.
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I guess if you crunch the numbers on 1 track vs 8 then my machine would also take about the same as yours to conform 5 hours of footage.
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Make a cup of coffee and file a feature request https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
This is a common complaint from those switching from Final Cut and there is, currently, nothing you can do about it.
I wonder, though, if anyone can chime in on the speed of the conform. I just ran a 35min video through with a mono audio track (a webinar sitting on my desktop) and it took 10-15 seconds to conform.
In Edit > Preferences > Media, setting your cache locations on a different disk from your footage may increase your performance since the conformed audio saves to this location.
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A few things, as I don’t tout myself an expert in keeping up with Apple’s hardware offerings (I really only research the market when I upgrade, but I’m sure others will chime in), I won’t get into deep detail.
RED footage is difficult to work with because of the debayering process. Most camera sensors work from a debayer pattern; a specific combination of red, green, and blue pixels that are, for engineering purposes, not even in number which have to be sampled in a way to create an actual color image. You have two options: You work with footage at a lower debayer quality (1/4 debayer quality, will make the footage appear that it has lower resolution, but for editing this is rarely an issue unless you have to review critical focus) or you can get a Thunderbolt enclosure and a very expensive RED Rocket card. The RED Rocket offloads the debayering process from your computer’s processor, allowing you 1/1 quality playback, but runs around $5,000.
RED footage playback is not improved any way by the Mercury Playback Engine’s use of Cuda or (I guess this is new) OpenCL/GL. Adobe uses code supplied by RED, and the debayer process is too complicated for a GPU.
If you aren’t getting a RED Rocket card then the best investment is a beefier CPU.
I would look into an external drive or two, either Firewire (footage review, simple edits with one lane of video) or Thunderbolt for more complicated edits. New MacBooks will need a Thunderbolt to Firewire 800 adapter, I think they run about $20-$30
A normal internal drive will be too slow (or at least headache inducing, I assume 5400 RPM) and a solid state drive won’t have enough space to be useful.
Angelo Lorenzo
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