Dan Stewart
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I wonder if, had Avid/Adobe arbitrarily EOL’ed MC/Premiere and released a successor that after two years was still hopelessly inept at taking over the workload, their users would have cheerfully described the cataclysm as a brave future in which it is normal to have to run two NLEs depending on which bit you currently need to work..?
I’m pretty sure Avid at least would already be a distant memory even if they started making billions in shiny toys and played the Beatles at the launch.
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I agree. Ok so you have nice high quality footage (yes go better than dnxhd175 if you can get and store it) but for those months of cutting why NOT use Dnxhd36/45 proxies? The system load is drastically reduced and the relink for finishing should be trivial. Good enough for Iron Man..
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Does anyone know if you could load these things with SSDs? And if so, what sort of performance you’d see?
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I didn’t miss Herb’s point, I was agreeing in my after-the-pub way. 4k can wait a few years – but enough of that super fast internal storage to hold an hour or two RAW timeline would make it interesting to me..
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I agree. 256Gg flash? That’s just a boot drive. I was hoping for a fat 2Tb for a 16bit HD conform timeline for SMAC finishing. Feels like you’re going to have to add a fast local thunderbolt raid if you want to make this thing work well.
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Thanks Herb.. I was about to post a reply that we would all have regretted 🙂
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This is a good example of the miscommunication at the heart of this thread. The article is meant for mercenary broadcast-feature-spot editors who walk into facilities houses, ask for a cup of tea (yes im in the UK) and start cutting. The point the article was making: you will be sat in front of an Avid. Maybe Premiere but that has never happened to me. FCP7 was edging in for a long time, at it’s peak maybe a third of my work. Now almost none. There are a few FCPL setups still around but mostly in-house suites with plans to switch to avid or premiere next cycle.
Maybe FCPX will become a viable option for post houses when the unofficial open beta they’ve been running is complete. Whether anyone would be crazy enough to put their multi-million dollar eggs in Apples basket again I seriously doubt.
Even if, as a little bird told me, the new FCPX has audio tracks.. -
I assume they mean putting clocks on the front.
-30 sec visual countdown to picture start with key info held (name, running time, prod co etc) -
Dude use a stills camera!