Bernard Newnham
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“Old Fart Who Loves My FCP-X But Sometimes Misses Linear Editing”
One thing I’ve never ever missed is linear editing.
Though at various IBCs I’ve walked down the corridor and heard a very familiar ancient sound in the distance which did evoke a bit of nostalgia –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuhLGc0gsa4
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Yes – I’d upgrade if they did that. Not the MacPro – that’s just another fast pc – but definitely Premiere
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At BVE yesterday I saw two MacTubes. One was on a stand of Apple resellers, and in a crowded hall they looked a bit lonely on their empty stand. No adoring crowds for them. Elsewhere, the Final Cut Pro X Professional (!) theatre was doing good business, as were Adobe and Avid.
I did my bit in a TV-Bay hosted web discussion on training, and the current problem in the UK of not being able to get the staff at the junior end.
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The BBC buys everything (nearly) at some point – it’s a huge and disparate place, with lots of styles and outlets. I can’t see them mainlining on X though – it’s difficult enough to get people trained on traditional stuff, let alone putting something completely non-standard into the system. But I guarantee someone on the BBC staff will be using it.
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If you give the right people enough money and access they could shoot that stuff on anything modern and it would look good. It isn’t about the toys or the manufacturer, it’s about talent
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As that didn’t mean much to me, I downloaded the trial Geekbench (32 bit only).
My Core i5-2500 3.3ghz CPU ran –
2890 single core
9240 dual coreCinebench ran –
CPU 448cb
OpenGL 81.95fps– the cars racing around the city very smoothly on my GeForce GTX 460 PCi. More fps than the Macpro above, don’t know why.
Not sure what all that means, but maybe it will give suitable contrast for others. I have the money to upgrade my gear, but currently I’m not rushing – though I don’t run Cinema 4d for a living. I don’t find great problems with editing 1080i.
More important to me these days is that my 60Mb/s connection which allowed me to download Cinebench at 109MB in a few seconds. Virgin are vaguely promising faster for this year.
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Introducing the new ProTidy (TM) – the revolutionary way to store all those peripherals now cluttering your edit suite.
Bought a new MacPro? Desk now covered with cables, power supplies and odd shaped boxes? The new ProTidy(TM) will solve all your problems. A premier product made by hand in the most expensive materials to ensure that it will go incredibly needlessly fast and impress all your gullible friends, the max spec version comes in at only $1999 plus tax.
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An interesting, and, as ever, illuminating comment. There are always trolls on every comment page, but I thought that the Slashdot stuff had a certain balance for and against, which is why I drew attention.
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A huge amount of comment on Slashdot –
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/13/12/24/184208/a-flood-of-fawning-reviews-for-apples-latestBernard Newnham
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Absolutely – non-upgradeable machines are only for those with cash to burn, especially if its a MacPro, given the prices. You really don’t need that kind of power – few do.
And check out Grass Valley Edius as editor if you don’t like Avid or monthly payment. Runs very fast on a PC even with lots of effects.
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