Bill Marcellus
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[Chi-Ho Lee] “s this a 15″ or 17″? The tech specs says a 17″ only due to screen resolution.
CHL”
It is a 17 inch.
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[Bob Roberts] “Are you saying you got Color installed on a first generation MacBook Pro?”
Yes, Color runs fine on my first generation Intel MacBook Pro. And previews are pretty much real time even with a couple of secondaries. I can’t wait to install it on the G5s but projects are getting in the way for now.
It feels like Christmas in May.
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Russell,
The laptop is a 1st generation 2.16 Ghz Intel Core Duo with 1 gig of RAM. So, basically a vanilla MacBook Pro.
I just rendered to the ProRes422 HQ codec- no problem. I cannot tell much about the quality of the codec until I can view it on a broadcast monitor- on the laptop and another attached monitor it looks great.
BTW- a 2 1/2 minute sequence with secondaries and masks on each clip took Color about 4-5 minutes to render. I didn’t actually time it ’cause I won’t be using Color very much on the laptop.
So far, so good.
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You are lucky- I ordered it on the first day (April, 15th) yet my order status still says “wiil ship by May 31”.
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Same thing happened to me last week. Without the log & capture window open, hit play on the deck and let it run for about 5-10 seconds then hit stop. Reopen log and capture and it should work- at least it did for me.
Don’t use deck control (RS-422 or Firewire) while you are doing this.
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Final Touch ran fine on a dual 2.7 G5 with aX800 XT card and 4 gigs of RAM. I would guess that it will run OK on your machine if you upgrade your video card to the ATI X1900. But, that is just a guess at this point in time.
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Walter, I couldn’t agree with you more!
And, as an earlier poster mentioned, these type of tools will fairly quickly shrink the market for $100K-$250K systems. Remember SGI? They filed for bankruptcy a few months ago. All of the dollars they squeezed out of folks and now all of the Autodesk stuff runs under Linux on stock PCs.
Avid is heading down the same path. They seem to forget that there a LOT of folks working in post who don’t have a fatal addiction to anything and everything that has an Avid or Autodesk nameplate affixed to it…probably because these folks have come into the business within the last five years or so.
When folks start writing the checks for their equipment (rather than the facility or TV station they work for writing them) they will see the light pretty quickly. The days of $750-1,000/hr. post suites are numbered.
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Sounds like you need to buy a Nitris or a Smoke. Of course, they list for slightly more than a FCS seat.
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A “roundtrip” is a problem? Isn’t a trip from the beloved Avid to a DaVinci even farther than a roundtrip within two integrated apps?
Apple have taken the excellent Silicon Color Final Touch program and integrated it into the FCP Studio suite. If you haven’t used this program (and it appears that you haven’t) it TOTALLY blows the doors off of any color correction tools within any Avid short of a full out Nitris. Of course, a Nitris costs considerably more than $1295 (or $499 for the upgrade).
The addition of 5.1 sound mixing within Soundtrack Pro is another awesome addition to the FCS suite. That alone saves another $1000 to purchase Logic Pro…or worse, a Pro Tools HD system for about $25,000 (Pro Tools LE doesn’t offer 5.1 mixing).
All in all, Apple have for a change exceeded my expectations with this release. I purchased Final Touch as a standalone almost two years ago for $5,000 and now it is included in FCS!
I think that there is a lot to be excited about in this release. Or you could always go spend $45-50,000 for a “professional” tool like an Adrenaline and watch it crash 4-6 times a day. Been there, done that…no thanks.
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Pro Tools LE does not have surround sound capabilities- nor does Soundtrack Pro. Logic Pro and Cubase 4 both offer 5.1 audio capabilities and for much less money than purchase of a Pro Tools HD system.
Hopefully at NAB we will see some form of 5.1 processing offered in the next release of FCP or STP…but people have been looking for this for the last three years so I wouldn’t count on it.
Bill