Brett Sherman
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I too am perplexed by lack of adoption in local broadcast and news production in the U.S. Speed is paramount to them and their budgets have been decimated by lower and declining ad revenue. Except for big markets, salaries are low – leading to less experienced employees.
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I wish Apple would sort out the SMB issues. They are abandoning AFP so it’s not viable for much longer. And FCP X can’t store libraries on AFP volumes. One would think given their move to SMB as the desired network storage protocol they’d be keen to knock out the bugs. But that appears to not be the case so far.
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Does VocalRider work well as an FCP X plug-in?
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I agree with Oliver, a limiter is not really designed to be used in this fashion. And often times you can hear the pumping when it engages. A compressor is more useful in this scenario. Adding a little compression can even out the dips and peaks, but ideally you’ll use both a compressor and some manual leveling. Then on the output you put a limiter on to reign in the peaks. As with all compression it will boost noise also, so you need a pretty clean audio track. And too much compression actually reduces intelligibility, so you have to be careful not to overdo it.
By far the best value for Compressors is Klanghelm. The MJUC Jr. is free. And the MJUC doesn’t cost much. I use the Mk3 MJUC with about 6db of compression and around 4db of makeup gain.
I’m sure VocalRider is a good option, it was overly pricey at $249. But now it seems to be $89. So I might actually look into it.
And for monitoring levels the Youlean Meters are great and free for the basic version!
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[Herb Sevush] “I stand corrected, they are identical 8 core, 3.6, i9s (don’t know why you say the Imac is faster.)”
I misread the specs, 3.7 Ghz i5 and 3.6 ghz i9 are available options. I inverted the numbers.
Comparing graphic cards is highly dependent on software and OS being used. So my point is that they are basically in the same ballpark. Do I care about gaming performance? I do not.
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[Oliver Peters] “It’s really not about the age of the machine. The 2013 Mac Pro actually still holds up against the iMac Pros and iMacs. It’s all about the components selected and how they are combined. Apple’s biggest disadvantage right now is their lack of CUDA support. That was a major differentiation in my testing. Apple’s designs right now play towards the advantages of use with FCPX to the detriment of other applications.”
It’s so variable on what you’re doing. Xeon’s tend to be good a raw power processing, but Core processors can work better with certain specifically designed functions, such as decompressing certain codecs. That’s why my iMac (and even my laptop) feel snappier editing certain kinds of footage than the Mac Pro. It’s one reason I’m getting the new iMac versus the iMac Pro.
I will admit to knowing nothing about Premiere performance. Or the triangular firing squad of Apple, Nvidia, and Adobe. My sense is there is equal blame to go around.
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An 8GB Radeon Vega 48 is a lesser GPU? Different, I don’t know about lesser. Lesser processor? They are both Core i9’s. iMacs is slightly faster. And with memory there is a point of diminishing returns. I’ve never felt lacking with 32gb. But I do know Adobe apps tend to be more memory hungry. (One might say worse at managing memory)
And as always, the proof is in the pudding regardless of specs.
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[Craig Seeman] “Have you given them these feature requests?
They really encourage user input.What MAM are you using as an alternative?”
Yes I have asked for these features. Fairly recently though so I wouldn’t expect anything immediately. But they are looking into it.
I use NeoFinder at the moment. It’s a hard disk cataloging program, so it’s a bit of a crude tool. But, having the file organizational structure is useful. Likely when I move to Keyflow, I’ll still keep it around as Keyflow doesn’t map a disk drive.
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I think it’s a great product. But there are a few things that keep me from implementing it. Probably the biggest is an inability to organize FCP X libraries. Seems basic, but without folders to place them in it’s nearly impossible to use the Libraries as your primary organizational structure. And for me that’s where the value lies. Otherwise I’m creating a parallel organization system. Which means, basically it won’t happen.
A close second is the inability to import libraries from any workstation other than the server.
I’m sure I’ll get there eventually, but at the moment there are too many snafus for me to implement.
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I would hope that a modern PC would beat a 6 year old Mac Pro! If not, they’re doing something seriously wrong. A fairer comparison would be with the newly released iMac (which is roughly the same price, yet includes a 5K monitor).