Clint Wardlow
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[Shane Ross] “Where are you looking for it to gain ground? Feature film? Broadcast television on a major TV network? Corporate video? Web video?”
Not really looking for it to gain ground anywhere. I just read on here a lot of posts by professionals using it, but not seeing it in my dealings with editors I know or work with.
Was more curious whether my experience was more indicative of FCPX’s lack of acceptance. Or if what I see on the Cow forum is closer to the mark.
I should say that the folks I deal with mainly shoot commercials or many are low-budget filmmakers. I do know some in local broadcasting. X seems perfectly doable for all of these guys IMHO, but there is a resistance to adopt.
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Don’t know if switch is the right word. I will finally download a copy and playing around with it. The best thing about this whole FCPX episode is that it forced me out of the single NLE paradigm. Now I use both FCP7 & PPRO, and will happily add FCPX to the mix. If Sony would pump out a MAC version of Vegas, I would be happy to include that also.
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Thanks Jeremy.
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[Walter Soyka] “With 16 GB for a quad-core, Clint is in fine shape. However, as he adds more CPU cores, he also needs to add more RAM.”
What am I doing wrong? With multiple layers and FX, my playback slows to a crawl in AE. I assumed this was because I was pushing the RAM.
Oh Jeremy, when I purchased the imac I was working mainly in FCP7 with occasional side trips to Color and Motion. I figured an unexpandable system would work fine. However, things have changed (especially when I was able to get the Adobe Production Suite at half price). So stupid me on that one.
P.S. And now –two years after the purchase–I get this scary email from Apple telling me I need to get in and have them replace the faulty seagate hard drive they installed asap. Thank god for time machine.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “I don’t get it. Why can’t you get 5 or 6 years out of a Mac that you buy today?
And why do we have to upgrade every few years?”
Well, it is my hope that I don’t have to. But from your post (and I may have misunderstood), you seemed to infer that one of Apple’s tactics may be to eliminate the user that squeezed 5 or 6 years out of the same computer.
I have to upgrade because of bad timing on my part. I bought an i7 imac a year before they released Thunderbolt. This would be fine, but noe that I have gotten more heavily into AE, I am finding that complex compositing is pushing my system, even with 16 gigs of ram, to its limit. So I want to upgrade (better graphics card that takes advantage of Cuda and more RAM).
The delay in a decent upgrade to Mac Pro has left me in a quandry. Do I stick with mac, suck up that my imac under-performs in AE, and hope that next year I am getting the Mac Pro update I desire? Or do I just jump ship and eat the relicensing fees on Adobe (or move to Cloud)?
Either way I know it’s going to be costly and am hoping my next purchase will last me 5 or 6 years. But your points about software –plus a move towards 4K in video production– has me left me with some doubts. Maybe it is just the nature of the modern beast.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Is it really more power for less money?
What PCs offer is iMac speed (quad core i7) in a desktop form factor.
When you start building “big iron” from the likes of HP with enterprise Xeons, the prices are very similar.”
You are actually right about that. I think I was more irritated by the notion that I was able to buy a mac get five or six years (or even longer out of it) but Apple may be putting an end to that.
I know for a lot of folks on here constantly updating hardware is a something they have to live with (and their big bitch about the Mac Pro is that it hasn’t given them a decent upgrade in years). However for a small potatoes guy like me, having to upgrade hardware every two years is a killer.
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[Craig Seeman] “Because Apple wants you to buy Thunderbolt MacBox when they release and not a PCIe slotted box you’re going to keep using for 5 years.”
And I think this is a mistake on Apple’s part. One of the big reasons I (and I think a lot of others) bought Macs was the perception –true or not– that a Mac machine outlasted a PC. If Apple suddenly forces us to purchase big iron every 2 to 3 years to keep working, the impetus to purchase a Mac loses ground. At that point why not go with PC which gives you more power for less money if you have to buy new machines every couple of years anyway?
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[Richard Herd] ” I used “H.264 LAN streaming” and it worked pretty well after I added compression markers where necessary.”
I am going to have to try that. Do you get a good full screen image? The problem I get is the way it smashes down all files to 480×360. I just can’t get a screener that doesn’t look like total crap when viewed in full screen mode. (Which I find frustrating since all withoutabox online advice recommends that your screener play well at full screen.) I just don’t see how this is possible when their player uses such a dinky frame size.
I think I am going to just send DVD screeners. Online screeners is a great idea, it is just a shame withoutabox executes it in such a sucky fashion.
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[Bret Williams] “The question can be answered. Can Avid open a composer file from 1992? I’d be curious to know.”
Ahhh, I wasn’t being that serious. Just wanted to blow off some steam ’cause I am having a bitch of a time making a quicktime file that plays decently as a Withoutabox online screener.
So resume the FCPX blog discussion. Sorry I interrupted.
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Doesn’t matter what NLE you use (FCP7, FCPX, PPRO, or AVID). Twenty years from now no one is going to be able to open whatever file format is currently in vogue. 99.999% of our computer-generated art will disappear into the ether. Face it, we are the disposable generation creating disposable art for a disposable culture.
Wow, that had nothing to do with this thread, but it was great to get that little rant of my chest.