Brett Sherman
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[Andrew Kimery] “It certainly won’t fit everyone’s bill but it will be a nice option to have… assuming it works as advertised. ;)”
I agree. But, working on the road will be iffy for a long time. I’m not sure it will be able to allow “working at Starbucks” for a long time. Has anyone actually tried to watch a YouTube video at 720P in a Starbucks or a hotel wifi network? It’s just not going to happen unless Starbucks or hotels make significant upgrades to their system. And why would they do that when it works fine for Facebook.
And I know at the institution I work at, there simply isn’t the bandwidth for this. For our 300 employee organization we could easily occupy about half the internet bandwidth we have. People would be at our office doors trying to murder us. So great for medium to large size production facilities where they can dictate network requirements, for the rest of us I’m not so sure.
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Yeah, double-clicking that sparse bundle takes FOREVER!
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[Greg Andonian] “with Premiere you don’t have to hope it gets added”
But, you’ll notice you just did that 3 paragraphs earlier in relation to media management.
So you’re saying you’re positive Adobe is addressing this and positive that Apple is not? Based on what exactly?
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[Morten Ranmar] “Yes I know there are workarounds for many of the issues. But it is like pushing my car as a workaround to get it to start, when the battery is dead…”
Hmm. I have yet to find an editing program that doesn’t require workarounds of some sort. And I do not find any of the workarounds with FCP X anywhere near the “pushing car” level. FCP 7 was chock full of them. I have no doubt Premiere CS 7 will have plenty. To me you have to judge the workflow as a whole with the workarounds. For example I use sparse bundles to allow for shared storage and to address the slow down issue of multiple projects. Is this a workaround? I don’t know, is Premiere’s project browser a workaround? To me it’s irrelevant. Does it work for me is the only thing that is relevant.
Also on another point. Saving versions. Actually quite easy. Select All. Make Compound Clip. Break Apart. Three clicks, not one, but it avoids the proliferation of FCP projects you have to sort out later.
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[Frank Manno] “I’m also worried they can become corrupt. I know this has nothing to do with your post.”
I also worry about corruption. I think part of it is not really understanding how sparse bundles work. Of course when I think about it, I don’t really understand how hard disk drives work either. So either way there are things to worry about.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “Yoda tells us that Anger comes from fear”
Then why are you so afraid of FCP X? 🙂
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I’ve moved to Sparse Bundles, so a lot of these backup solutions are problematic because you have to manually create watch folders or projects that it needs to back up. So I’d have to create hundreds of watch folders. And remember to do it every time I started a new project.
What I’m interested in is one that can auto detect FCP X Events and Projects from all the drives you have connected and back them up without any user intervention.
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Interesting. I’m beginning to wonder if Premiere is more of a threat to Avid than FCP X. I can see Premiere taking more and more of the high end market. And regardless of the negative opinions of FCP X that people like to espouse on this board, I think there will always be a place for FCP X at the low to mid-level.
I also think eventually there will be a place at the high end once project sharing is improved in FCP X. But it may take awhile for FCP X to gain footholds there as it has been too slow in coming.
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Just out of curiosity, what specific things makes Premiere CS 7 more viable than CS 6? When I look at the feature list it looks good, but not revolutionary. What are the tipping point features? The only ones I can think of is Project Browsing and DNxHD.
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Some interesting things here. I’ve already made my move to FCP X, but I like to see innovation across all video editing products.
For me the most interesting things would be:
-Story (but only if I can easily load interview transcripts and have it automatically sync with the video with minimal user input)
-Loudness meters (seems like it would be easy enough for every editing program to have this, but good for Adobe for making it actually happen)
-Project Browsing (opening one project at a time was a deal breaker for me going with Premiere, however I wonder how well it will really work)I can understand how some people like the audio mixer (especially coupled with a desktop control surface). But for me, I’ve found I like fewer keyframes and don’t like to “ride” levels. In FCP7 I rarely used the mixer anyways and preferred manual keyframing.