Chris Harlan
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[Jeremy Garchow] “I would word this differently in that “far fewer people will pay for that”. If the tool was available to more users for a better cost, people would find use for a shared environment.
“I see what you are saying. What I was really referring to is that far fewer people have an actual need to have multiple users in the same project at the same time, as opposed to working on the same project at the same time. For large hard-deadlined non-scripteds, for instance, its critical. For many others, its a terrific convenience, but a convenience that can be achieved, or nearly achieved, by a variety of alternate workarounds.
[Jeremy Garchow] “Also, if you need to share a bunch of clips, tossing a mess of them in a Project, exporting the metadata view to “everything” with an XML, allows another user to import the XML and it creates a new Event with the new clips. It’s really easy, there’s nearly zero Finder work that needs to be done, no media managing, no file structure, nothing. Keywords come in, organization comes in, a timeline comes in. It’s truly useful and rather remarkable, and also different from how FCP7 works.
“That’s terrific. Sounds like its getting close to the all around utility of MC’s bin model. Sounds like sharing is definitely better than 7. In 7, I would throw a bunch of clips into a timeline and media manage to share, which was okay, but that you can bring keywords, means that its like sending bins, too. That’s cool. Can you media manage in X yet? If I just wanted to give somebody a small portion of a project in a separate folder or sneaker-net drive, can I give them just the clips I choose with handles?
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[Jeremy Garchow] “collaboration in FCPX is no good”
I think the potential for collaboration in X is just fine, especially with some of the stuff John has shown. Its just not up to the industrial strength that ISIS can bring, but far fewer people need that.
I DO have to say that Bin sharing in Avid has been a delight for me, and I wish more NLEs allowed me to put together such a nice portable kit that I could then consolidate for others. Its really handy. When I was last using Avid before this re-up, portable storage wasn’t even part of the picture.
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[Charlie Austin] “No problem, I actually share your disdain for “everything is perfect, you’re doing it wrong!” posts myself. They’re as unhelpful as the “it’s iMovie Pro and Apple hates pros!” posts… Which have been getting under my skin a lot recently for some reason… (and that wasn’t directed at you by the way, just to pre-clear up any potential misunderstanding) 🙂
“Agreed. And you’ve been a terrific asset to the discussion here.
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I’m referring to Premiere, though everything I said probably applies to X as well. Except I doubt we will see an audio control surface for X anytime soon. Since Audition can take them, I’m hoping the next version of Premiere will be able to as well.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Here is the equivalent of a halo car in the computer world:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/worlds-fastest-superc...
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Apparently a little too much sizzle in that core. One of the 22 most powerful computers in the world, but not worth the cost of the power it takes to run it! Amazing.
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[Steve Connor] “[Walter Soyka] “Even if major updates require full re-purchases, $299 every couple years is a major bargain. Barring Lightworks (which I haven’t spent any time with to know if it’s a serious competitor), no one else has maintenance priced this low.”
This is very true, there’s a lot of discussion about what might happen but if this was the worst case scenario then it’s not a problem for me at all.
“Yes, its a great deal. 300 bucks every few years is about the price of the traditional upgrade, anyway. Its a lot of software for the price. They could upgrade and do supportive maintenance in the same way they do OS X, just not as often.
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[Bret Williams] “And perhaps OMF and such is a pain in X, but audio in general can be a real hassle in Premiere too.”
Not really. I mean yes, if you don’t understand what you are doing, but its got a seriously good audio set up. It needs to support control surfaces, though. Maybe in a couple of weeks.
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[Marcus Moore] “If you look back to last year, you’ll see some articles from Larry Jordan, Scott Simmons, Philip Hodgets, and others about sit-downs they had with Apple- talking about where the software is at, and some roadmap previews. Expect something similar. I don’t have any other details I can share.”
I’m well aware that they have their little talks. Every company in attendance at NAB does. I don’t consider those “press conferences,” which is why I asked.
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I found that ProResHQ worked quite well for me, especially after reconfiguring the timeline to preview with it.
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Its a great video, but its for 5.5 and some of the gotchas have changed, and of course, may change again in a few weeks.