Bob Woodhead
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I’ve done a couple large and numerous small projects in PPro over last several months. The best thing (by far) for my workflow is not having to transcode footage from my AF100. I’ve found in FCP that both Panny’s AVCHD codec and the Clipwrap wrapper are both buggy as heck, more likely than not to crash FCP when used. So to use AF100 footy in FCP, need to L&T into ProRes, with something like a 10X blow up in filesize. (My HPX500 P2 media doesn’t change size when imported, of course.) Using PPro, simply copy the card media over, and start editing. Nice. (Yeah, there is that “generating peak files nonsense, but a fast RAID helps.)
Basic editing…. hmmm…. think FCP uses a slightly more concise set of “rules” for targeting tracks, etc. Always seems I’m clicking one too many times in PPro. I prefer how Markers appear below the clip in the bin in FCP. Multicam in FCP is slightly better. FAR LESS mandatory rendering in PPro, but at the expense of watching crappy RT FX if you don’t render. Give me clip audio mixing versus track mixing, thank you (nod to FCP). Title tool WAY better in PPro. FAR FEWER transition filters in PPro, native or 3rd party (yeah, I do a fair bit of corporate, and there’s always a need to glow/shimmer/roll/shiny-trick-thing transition). Sure hope FxFactory comes to PPro.
Exporting for complex GFX, comps, etc – yeah baby! AFX is my old friend! While I do like Motion’s Behaviors, After Effects is the shiznit for almost anything else. My god, there is so much you can do with AFX. I don’t even know where the wall **is** in AFX, the program’s so flexible.
Adobe’s apps really can push your iron for all it’s worth. Fun to watch all those cores bang away. But RAM is way more critical than in FCP. The 8GB I had wasn’t doing it with PPro – but once I went to 32GB things flew.
Stability – not a problem so far.
Tried to think of more, but the pizza just arrived…..
“Constituo, ergo sum”
Bob Woodhead / Atlanta
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If it’s a 3D model, change it! Make it something else. The “jStan” phone. Change the button & the icons. Then it’s not an iPhone. Or anyone else’s.
“Constituo, ergo sum”
Bob Woodhead / Atlanta
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Lol…. I do a lot of work for AT&T, and the hoops Apple makes THEM jump through to use even a sign in a store of an iThing….
So, no.
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Thanks Tom – I’ve read a few descriptions of these items, and these were the most helpful.
“Constituo, ergo sum”
Bob Woodhead / Atlanta
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Defrag mostly. If it gets the typical “install/test/uninstall”, a good HDD wipe & start fresh is good.
“Constituo, ergo sum”
Bob Woodhead / Atlanta
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I want to be the crocodile.
“Constituo, ergo sum”
Bob Woodhead / Atlanta
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Hmmm…. OK, imagine a lens flare effect over black. There’s hot spots, but there’s also lots of areas where the flare is a soft spot of light over the black. There’s no way this is going to linear key over video, as it’ll key the black that’s behind the soft spots, along with the light effect. Unless I’m having a brain malfunction? In other words, I’m not talking about trying to get “black” graphic sections – that’d be easy.
Think it’s been about 15-20 years since I had to deal with superblack……
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Hey now, at the very least, “America’s Funniest Videos” will look better. Imagine the hilarity!
“Constituo, ergo sum”
Bob Woodhead / Atlanta
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Follow the RAM guidelines, and err on the side of gratuitous. 3GB RAM per CPU core is one level of the Adobe guideline. Add another 2-6GB for system & other apps.
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That’s quite different from a storage cloud. There’ve been render clouds for years in 3D.
The problem is the poor bandwidth we have in the US for Internet.