Bryan Roberts
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Hi Shane,
I’m thinking R3D files or even ProRes 4k files (sorry for the vague-ness, both projects are still in prepro, I just forsee the client asking if I can handle 4k files just because that’s the cool thing right now and them expecting me to be able to handle some sort of 4k goodness – it’s not that I even have a 4k TV setup for them but they’d never know between a 4k or 1080p, they just want to know that the editing files are in fact 4k). The GTX780 offers almost the most CUDA cores you can get in any card so I was thinking that would help quite a bit (it certainly has made Premiere an absolute monster). Is the only reason your 2012 laptop can run circles around my tower because of Thunderbolt? In the Geekbench breakdown which just measures processor power, I still have the 8th fastest factory mac ever produced – the fastest laptop doesn’t come until 13th, a 2013 Macbook Pro…
https://browser.primatelabs.com/mac-benchmarks
Just trying to figure out if investing further in my 2009 tower with the anticipation of 4k coming my way (nothing uncompressed but whatever “normal” 4k editing format ends up being the next year) is worth it or if the lack of thunderbolt is going to crush any plans to cut in any kind of 4k the next couple years.
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Found this interesting external usb3 or esata iii enclosure, hmmmm…
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Sure, basically the 3 sliders in FCP7’s 3 way color corrector correspond with Adobe’s Input Level slider that you’ll find on either the fast color corrector or 3 way color corrector in Premiere. They take some playing around with but there’s 3 little pointers, if you will, along a grayscale gradient bar. When you drag the left most pointer slightly more towards the center, it darkens your shadows, the middle pointer can be slid left and right much in the same way as the FCP middle slider controlled your mids and then if you need to bring back your highlights a bit, you can pull the right pointer to the left. The 3 color wheels in the 3 way color corrector work exactly the same way from FCP to Premiere. This is my rough understanding and so far it’s yielded very similar results. Hope that helps!
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Never mind, I received an incredibly helpful phone call from a fellow creative cow-er Andy, explaining it all. Thanks so much Andy!!!
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Thanks for the input – I went ahead and pulled the trigger on a GTX 780 and it’s a beast of a graphics card. Tons of CUDA cores, it just annihilates in Premiere. As of the 10.9.2 release of Mavericks, the GTX780 has been added so you can just buy the “PC” card since they don’t offer a mac version and you just don’t have the white boot screen. Otherwise it works perfectly and shows up in the system profiler perfectly. At $500, it’s quite a steal and just blows the Quadro 4000 out of the water for video editing.
So far I’m loving Premiere on this little test I’ve been going on so far (just a 30 minute show, but lots of high action, flashy car stuff, it’s a fun high energy edit).
How much ram are you running Gerard?
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Thanks all! I’ve been trying it out on a project (television show) I’m cutting from home this week and it’s been just awesome so far.
Gary – I’m not quite following what you mean by merged clips? That sounds like maybe it’s a hiccup on your end, otherwise I’d assume it’d be a pretty well known flaw if XML was broken! … or perhaps not :/
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Just switched to a Logitech M510 wireless mouse (claims a two year battery life for each battery) after my last logitech had the paint rubbing off after several years of use. It’s my first wireless mouse (and I bought the solar powered logitech silver mac keyboard which apparently never needs a battery change) as I wanted the clean look because I just mounted my two 24 inch monitors on Ergotron arms and wanted the space under them to be completely clutter free. Helps me think better during crunch time to have my space clean. Off topic but the Ergotron LX monitor arms have changed my life, I highly recommend them to anyone who sits in front of their computer all day…
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All great point guys – it sort of taps into my FCP7 nirvana as I had reached a point where it became my super app with no roundtripping for my editorial needs (cut, moderate effects, graphics, color correction, rough mix) and now that I find myself looking at separate tools, it breaks my creative flow and takes more time.
In terms of what production facilities want / need, I’d guess that they’ll typically stay fairly loyal to one or two editing platforms only. Once you find something that really works quickly, efficiently and cost effectively, you dont want to change it hence why we all get up in arms when Avid / Apple / Adobe makes even the slightest shift in their interfaces or our workflows. A lot of times we dont want new features but rather old features to just work properly but that doesnt make for a sexy line item so we end up with a laundry list of stuff that gets added each version update. I dont see why any post houses would stray from avid at this point. With MC dropped to old FCP levels, cost isnt of a concern for the basic software to edit with.
Which leads me to the creative cloud thing – I dont think faster updates / affordability to always have the latest version, in terms of an editing app, is as big a benefit as is being touted. Again, we professional editors aren’t hungry for the next big thing, we want our current stuff now to work properly and if it works well now, we want it faster. I could see the larger user base at a lower cost entry point (more consumers and prosumers having access to prevously cost prohibitive software) demanding more new additional features with each release.
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Yes, it’s certainly happening. It was announced yesterday and covered quite well by all the big media outlets etc. – here’s the Ars article from yesterday:
I used Vegas on and off for about a year in the mid 2000’s. I didn’t mention it because other than my own use, I’ve never heard it even mentioned in a conversation about editing with other professionals or other post houses in the past 8 years so I figure, it doesn’t exactly have big inroads in the pro market 🙂
Adobe will certainly remain a competitive product but if I know post houses and edit facilities, they are really going to despise a subscription only based system with a required internet connection every so often, and I don’t see Premiere being a competitive choice for many facilities. Photoshop is the gold standard for image editing and will always be around, forever and ever and ever.
Glad you enjoyed the post… perhaps others did not?
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Yessir – I know about alternating which video source you want to monitor by hovering your mouse. It seems that when you have an audio track selected to be trimmed along with a video source that you’re left with only the last click method for monitoring as the hovering doesn’t do anything in that situation.
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