Daniel Frome
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Did you import via AMA? If so, have you followed Avid’s official offline/online workflow for this? I haven’t tried it on MC6 yet, but it worked just fine in 5.5.
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I guess this is good news. If my math is right… the quarter before they lost about 8 million. They fired about 200 employees. That probably resulted anywhere from 7-10 million is savings on salary. Now they posted a 1 million profit. Looks like it was a balanced move.
There are plenty of companies firing people even when they take in massive profits. Judging by the small net profit, it looks like they fired just enough to turn around. Totally ignorant statement here, but it seems like it was an appropriate move, not overboard in either direction.
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Well if it isn’t professional, then certainly we wouldn’t need a professional to teach it to us 😉
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The guy in the red sweater (right) is constantly chuckling in a condescending way every time they start showing Avid functions on screen. It gets a little annoying. He’s clearly not a fan.
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Warning: completely personal, non scientific opinion here:
The general rules says that every CPU core should have 1 or 2 GB of RAM. 1GB/core is usually plenty for “1 app at a time”, but 2GB/core if you really just want to splurge a bit. So… you’re talking about a quad core CPU that can run 8 threads. Not as good as 8 real cores, but better than most quad core processors too.
Therefore, 8GB RAM is already near the very top of what your computer is going to use. 16GB … I would venture a 1-2% speed increase, with lots of applications open simultaneously. During some intense render jobs you may also get some added stability, but it may be too small to perceive.
I had a “real” 8 core workstation, and the boost from 8GB to 16GB RAM was marginal for most video editing tasks. So…you can imagine an “8 thread” cpu would use the extra RAM even less.
Premiere Pro CS5.5 is going to use your RAM the most – but mostly only during outputs. Avid MC6 won’t care all too much from 8GB unless you’ve got super fancy layers. FCP7 won’t care hardly at all. FCPX…I don’t know, I don’t use it enough.
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I’m seriously beginning to think that you don’t actually care about FCPX at all, but have found a golden way to troll us all into useless debate. I look at this debate forum and realize the pattern… you sir, are definitely going to have the last laugh.
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I’ll preface this with “purely my opinion” – But since you already use CS 5.5 you don’t have any need for FCPX. Most of the “benefits” such as native format support, real-time features, etc, are already being performed better on CS5.5 than on FCPX.
The keywording might speed things up a bit, but it’s tit-for-tat at that point and the learning curve of a brand new timeline system will slow you down.
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I think it proves the point that FCPX is still worth learning, even if just for the novelty sake. Personally I find their post model more evolutionary than the software component of the article: almost everything is done “in house” – and that’s where the future is headed. It’s a small show and I think that is what’s making this show possible to do in FCPX in the first place.
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Good for Avid. I hope they eventually break even as a company and make MC 6.5 even better.
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Welcome to 2 years ago 😉