Brett Sherman
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[Andrew Kimery] “My guess is that it’ll look like a big MacMini on the outside and have the iMac Pro guts on the inside. It’ll have more ThB 3 USB-C ports (and busses) and maybe come in a dual CPU flavor. I don’t see Apple giving internal expansion so everything (GPUs, storage, I/O cards, fiber, etc.,) will happen via ThB 3.”
I think there’s a possibility it will have multiple slots for NVMe PCIe storage. And a slot for GPU. But that’s about it I think. I doubt it will have a bunch of PCIe slots for all manner of cards. And quite frankly I agree with that approach. There’s no reason for I/O you can’t use TB3.
Also the value of upgrading a CPU is pretty limited. It’s just not developing at the pace it once was.
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That was it! Thanks!
It’s always a new security setting.
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And reconnect it the audio file? It’s been years since I’ve attempted. I just don’t remember having any luck with it.
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[Shane Ross] “OK…let’s look at Apple’s record in this reguard.”
I guess I’ve been lucky. I’m not saying Apple’s history is perfect here. But at least there are options. As far as I know there are no ways to open and Avid .omf or .mxf file without Media Composer.
I guess I come down as saying it’s better to have only some of your media inaccessible as opposed to ALL of your media inaccessible.
It should also be said even if you have Media Composer, if you don’t have your Avid Project or it got corrupted, you are SOL for accessing the media.
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[Andrew Kimery] “ProRes is proprietary and Apple has put more walls around it than Avid has around their codecs.”
Codec is only one of the issues. Container formatting is another. Avid went with an MXF implementation that common third party applications can’t handle. And they insisted for a long time in splitting audio and video into different files which creates additional problems.
Now it is true my Avid knowledge is maybe dated. So maybe it has improved, but it was a nightmare for a long time trying to access Avid media.
It should also be said if you don’t have your Avid Project or it got corrupted, you are SOL for accessing the media.
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[Dom Silverio] “Isn’t that true for any software?”
That you can’t access the media itself without the software? No that’s largely only true of Avid. Are there cases with FCP? Apparently, I’ve just never run into those. Maybe I’m lucky with the codecs I used. I just have had no issues accessing media created in FCP.
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[Shane Ross] “I onlined a 96 min feature doc cut in Avid, consolidated for online in Resolve.”
Before we sing too many of Avid’s praises. I have tons of archived Avid projects from 2000 to 2006. I can’t access a single one of them. Not to mention, I can’t access the media either. Because they are in Avid’s proprietary .omf file format. Not to mention audio is split from video so even if I could find a program to open the OMF files, reconnecting the two is next to impossible.
Yes at this point I could buy an Avid license and maybe open the projects. But 20 years from now? What if Avid drops support of OMF? Or goes out of business? At least with FCP X I know I’ll be able to access my media, if not the library file.
Long-term archiving is tricky business. And I’m not at all convinced Avid is better at it than FCP X is. FCP X’s weakness is size of archive. Avid’s is proprietary formats.
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Andreas Kiel who often posts here has a tool called X-Title Importer that converts SRT, ITT files into Titles.
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/TitleExchange/XTI/index.html
You can make your own Title templates in Motion and use those for formatting.
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[Oliver Peters] “I generally find that when the decision is made by the IT department – and they are closed minded to Macs – you are stuck with what you have.”
IT departments usually have no idea about the amount of data or data throughput necessary for video editing. Once I start talking to them about generating 30 TB of data per year, needing to back up 2 TB in a single night, and needing a clear 10G connection to the server room, they start realizing they don’t want to get involved in that business. So they leave me alone with my Mac consultants that I use periodically.
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Simon Says is great. A little buggy at times, but the value for how much you pay is amazing. They are also very responsive. They now have individual channel selection, in part, because I made a big deal about how it was a necessary feature for noisy environments.