David Cherniack
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Aindreas, leaving aside the financial viability to Adobe (as who knows what their figures really tell them), and leaving aside the many users who are unhappy with the way the model has been formulated so far (though I think their argument is more ideological than practical), I think the benefits will only become clear in the next year. The programmers that I’ve heard opine seem very happy not having to work to update cycles and if Adobe can roll out many major new features well before next June it will certainly be worth it to those subscribing. They’ll have the benefit of their use months earlier than would be the case in the normal upgrade cycle. If not, the whole edifice will be a bust and a PR hit to boot. In others words, like most things, time will tell.
David
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[Oliver Peters] “so far my experiences have been with CS6 (installing CC this w/e). This has been with various 8 and 12-core Mac Pros with both ATI and NVIDIA cards.”
I think you’ll find CC much improved for playback of most (maybe all) codecs on the Mac and mostly a delight overall. That seems to be the case over on the PrPro forum…slightly tinged by the new FCP refugees who haven’t figured out where things are yet.
My personal feeling is that PrPro CC is by far the best release Adobe has done. They really stepped up to fill the holes in audio, mezanine codecs and re-linking…and made what seems like hundreds of other improvements. It’s now a mature NLE. That may not be the case with FCPx for another few years. NLEs take time to develop, though I think Apple has done an impressive job in two years. Then again, they had to, or the egg on their face would have hardened into an embarrassment for all time.
David
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That’s far from my experience with CC. Are you actually running CC? If so with what hardware?
David
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[Oliver Peters] “I completely disagree. I am simply not happy with the performance of native codecs, such as AVCHD, MP4, H264, REDCODE, etc. I’ve tried it and it simply doesn’t offer the performance I need. In any case, for sake of this thread, the same capabilities exist in MC, PLUS the options to transcode on import or afterwards from the timeline.”
By “performance of native codecs such as…” do you mean rendering time to a mezzanine codec or to a mastering codec on output?
David
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[Oliver Peters] ” you prefer to work with optimized/transcoded media, you generally cannot transcode media within PPro as part of the import. Instead you have to use Prelude or AME to transcode first, or you have to suffer through often long renders/exports at the end of the line”
Oliver, that’s an inefficient way of working that’s out of date with CC. With CC you can work smarter than transcoding everything. You can transcode parts of the timeline in a specific or targeted way to a mezzanine codec (Prores or DNxHD) with any intensive added effects and smart render on output, in theory outputting as fast as a files can copy.
David
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I haven’t seen that problem. Could be your tracks aren’t empty. Is the sequence is from your problematic xml file that won’t play?
David
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[Bret Williams] “The only thing I can guess is PPro doesn’t like the xml I’m giving it? Often the sequences I’m playing with are derived from XMLs from FCP 7 or FCP X (via xto7).”
You have it right there, in a sense. It’s probably one (or more) of the files (or the xml’s description of the files) that’s the cause. I’ve seen a similar thing when a file is corrupted or ‘off’ in some way and Premiere Pro won’t play the sequence.
David
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As mentioned you can output a file with up to 32 tracks. I usually do 5.1 as an 8 track output. BTW you set your output tracks destination in the audio mixer…with panning the L:R stereo pairs to one side or the other.
David
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[David Gaudio] “Please tell me I’m missing something…”
You’re missing something. A lot, actually. 🙂
Look at the tracks tab when you’re setting up a new timeline. You can select as many output tracks as you want.
David
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[Bill Davis] “seems to be spreading like bad b-movie irradiated Godzilla poop fertilized kudzu!”
You say it, Bill, just like it is.
David
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