Brooks Tomlinson
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I want to thank all the people that took the time to add to the discussion, and not just berate me. I have read a little bit about the problem of Windows Pro-Res switching from 10bit to 8bit. And Windows pro-res sometimes not recognizing as pro-res for some commercial delivery. Lots more testing involved.
Then Next thing I need to do is test on windows all the cool programs you guys have mention. (need to clear some room to bootcamp)
Side note. I was doing some mac testing with the programs I own. I took a H.264 file, and encoded it to pro res HQ in fcpX, Adobe Media Encoder, and Smoke 2013. They all came out the same, within 10mb of each other.
What was interesting, that I didn’t know. And maybe someone can illuminate me on this. When I used FCPx “optimized media” it was prores 422, and not HQ. Now I know it doesn’t need to be HQ from H.264. But what if I’m coming from something that can take advantage of it. I tried goggling around but didn’t find a clear answer. If someone can point me in the correct direction, that would be cool.
And I consider myself well informed, and only had heard of Telestreams Solution for windows as the only professional situation. But the problem with that is you need windows server, when I had check into that.
anyway thanks for the discussion.
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As far as the person preference goes, I was just trying to keep the mac vs pc debate out of it for a second, so people would take a fresh look at what keeps them on mac. Is it prores, or fcpx? thats all.
as far as your prores articles on the cow go. I guess I have to be uber specific, and say “you can render prores from every single program natively like you can in mac, that way you can keep your prores workflow” Because having to using another program is a hoop. Having to do anything besides render out prores natively from your program is a hoop. Having to set up a script, so you can render prores without having to double render is a hoop.
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One of the things keeping me from an iMAC, (besides it not being powerful enough) is the lack of user replaceable hard drive. I mean really, have you looked at how hard it is to access iMac’s HD? I have had bad luck with HD, and want that quick turn around in case something goes wrong. That’s why I bought a retina over the iMac, at least I could replace/upgrade the harddrive. I’ve allways had good luck with ram, so I tend to error to replacing HD ease vs. ram.
It looks like replacing ram and hd in the mac pro will be a snap. (as long as they don’t solder it in place. that would piss me off)
the word on the street is they gfx is solder? anyone confirm?
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[Gary Huff] “There’s the iMac for that. The Mac Pro is for people who want serious speed.”
yep that was my though exactly, they cover the high end with mac pro. Mid level now shifts to the iMac. Low end with the macbook pro’s. Now that it is all unified over thunderbolt, you can just upgrade your processing power as cash permits, and just keep the external devices.
Ugh, what I now wouldn’t give for a lto thunderbolt solution that is south of $2,000.
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you had me a YES, but all the options are great! thanks
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I wandered over to the premiere thread but they aren’t even talking about the cs7. It is like they have real work to do. Don’t they know better?
So have they fixed the thumbnail view so you can sort the clips you hover scrub? If they did that, it would be great. It is one of the features I like about fcp x. And the hover scrub in pp is useless to me.Brooks Tomlinson
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Lets Put some Math into the equation, and I’ll tell you my plan.
Anywork I do on my mac at is at home, or freelance. So I too wanted a new mac pro, but was tired of waiting. Then the retinas came out and I bought one in June.
I figured I would rent to myself the new macbook pro, until the Mac pro was released.
I paid 2300 for 16gig retina macpro (2.3). I know the resell value will be fair to high.
7 months later, gazzelle is buying for 1450 right now, selling privately for 1700.
So if I privately sell at 1700, currently thats only $85 a month. If I had to sell to gazzelle, it is $141
I bought only accessions that I know would work in a tower. For fast storage, I use a 256 SSD , and have a 2tb drive. I use the Seagate line, so I can switch between usb 3.0 (174mb read/write) or the thunderbolt adapter (350mb Read/write) I just transfer my projects on and off the fast drive like we did in the old days. Rarely do I have more than 256 for a project (even full show edits)
I have a 120 SSD for my Smoke, and AE cache drive.
On my laptop I run, smoke, mocha, ae, primere, nuke, all real time. Even RT red footage. FCP X is super fast as well. I’ve been really impressed with the speed, especially smoke.
One last benefit, when I want create a new look, or a do a new tutorial, I can do it in the living room with my wife while we watch tv. I get to work, and she gets together time 🙂
Downsides,
I have a 24 inch monitor, and to hook it up, you have to buy a 100 dollar apple adaptor. I all ready had it.The retina will get hot on long work hours. I had to buy a laptop cooler, but it has a USB 3 hub built in!
That was my plan. Honestly though, what will probably end up happening is I will just save up for the new mac pro, and keep the macbook instead of selling my macbook.
Brooks
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For organizing the media and getting the first cut done, there is nothing faster than FCPX, and I have used them all. Where I find it falls down is in the end part, tweaking, revisions, and project duplications , then finally archiving.
For me, it was like you lost all that speed you had at the start, and actually starts to take longer.
I will be interested to see how the blog about the whole process goes.
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Micheal,
It sound that bad in final cut pro x, when it is on mono. Exported mono it sounds bad.Brooks Tomlinson
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the vo was mono, that I time warped, then outputed dual mono (stereo)
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