Christopher Travis
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Is the actual demonstration up anywhere yet? I’ve yet to see this in action apart from the short clips on the Autodesk site.
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Can you guys give me a run-down on the failings of the MAc version? I’m very close to making a switch from FCP to PP where I work and a, trying to get as much info as possible before I do..
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Nevermind,
I conformed it in Cinema Tool and then used Audacity to pitch correct the audio.
Sorry for the useless post
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Simply put we need to get ourselves off FCP legacy as quickly as possible. I want more RT, less rendering, and more native editing, but I want to do this in the least disruptive way possible. PP works a lot like FCP which is good for me as that’s where my background is. We use a lot of freelancers and I don’t want to throw them all out and start from scratch building up a whole new address book of FCPX and smoke users. That is going to make an already tense transition a complete nightmare.
FCPX and the new smoke look fascinating but I can wait a year or two to see how they work for other people before I entrust my workflow to them. I don’t think we will be less competitive compared to shops that use them by switching to PP.
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I’ve been reading around the new Smoke release and it certainly does look interesting. I’ve signed up for the free trial in June so I’ll be dipping my toe in then. I’d like to get myself up to speed on it and maybe I’ll suggest installing it on one suite later in the year. It might save us from having to send certain jobs down the road to the big post house.
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Thanks again Frank,
We should only need one stream, it’s a very simple edit we just need to do it as quick as possible and if I can avoid transcoding then this makes this seem like an ideal project to try out on PP.
For the record, if we were doing a more complicated edit need 2 or more streams, I could probably get RT playback by dropping the playback resolution right? Would this be less taxing on the HD?
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All of our 3 towers are less than 2 years old. 1 is on Snow Leopard, the other 2 are on Lion. We don’t have any capture/video cards at the moment, currently all mastering and playouts are done outside but if possible I’d like to bring this inside too so it’s useful to know there may be hiccups with that.
On a side note, we have about 30hours of DPX files coming our way next week and I’m hoping that one of these towers (12 core, 32Gb Ram) running PP will be able to edit these right away as long as I have a fast enough RAID array (I’m thinking 3x2TB,7200RPM internal, striped RAID 0). Can anyone tell me if I’m likely to be disappointed? I really REALLY don’t want to have to transcode that lot to Prores and work in FCP.
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Frank,
Could you tell me what those things are and in what way CS6 is supposed to be addressing them?
Also thanks Steve, just browsing the thread titles in the PP forum is good for getting an idea of peoples problems with it. I’d still appreciate any and all criticisms of the system, things that are definitely not user-error problems but problems with the package itself.
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I see that CS6 will have broader support for Radeon GPUs, but the blurb only mentions the models that come with the Macbook Pro. We have 3 Mac Pros with Radeon 5770s in them. Will CS6 be able to utilise these?
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Is there a tool similar to Avid’s trim tool? I have only played with Avid briefly but I loved the trim tool in it. In particular I loved how you could play past the edit point and view the unused portion of the outgoing clip, then update the edit on the fly. I’ve probably done a poor job of explaining that. hopefully someone knows what I mean..