David Cherniack
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The hack means means they haven’t tested the card. The card may fully work or it may cause instability in some cases, though I really haven’t heard of any except when loading 5k still sequences with effects on a 1gB of memory card.
David
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[Andrew Richards] ” Does anyone know if OpenCL Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration is possible on Windows?”
AFAIK the answer is no, possibly “not yet”…though the PrPro boys have said that CUDA has been slightly faster
David
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[Morten Ranmar] ” I do miss the simplicity of secondary color grading with masks in FCPX”
You can do secondary grading with the 3-way in Premiere. That and the masks effect are CUDA (and I believe OpenCL) real time. Or you can shoot DPXs or an EDL of your clip into Speedgrade.
David
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[Gordon Modin] “I’m VERY impressed with CS6. Adobe engineers did an incredible job.”
They most certainly did. Warp Stabilizer and the new 3D camera tracker in After Effects are terrific engineering accomplishments. As is the entire Speedgrade app….which feels like it was written in Assembly.
David
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[Tim Wilson] “ou got a problem with drunk monkeys? Don’t make me start a forum called Drunk Monkeys Or Not: The Debate!”
As someone who shoots his films I frequently wish I had a drunk monkey to blame my material on. Alas I’m my own monkeycam and not even drunk. More’s the pity.
As for naming a forum after drunk monkeys everywhere, I believe the name has probably been appropriated already by a kung fu style. If not, or the lawyers allow the difference between kung fu and camera work, I say go for it!
David
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[Gordon Modin] “You’ll put it on all your clips.”
I share your enthusiasm for the awesomeness of the Warp Stabilizer but have all your clips been shot by a drunk monkey? You could I suppose put it on all your clips just for the fun of seeing your project bloat up like a dead pig but like all great things use of the WS is best done where it’s needed.
Take a look at Todd Kopriva’s blog on memory and storage tips for Warp Stabilizer and 3D Camera Tracker
David
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I should add one now thing to Dennis’ post: you only have to render on output if you’re going to a file. If you’re going to tape via sdi it’s direct.
David
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[Andrew Richards] “I taught myself FCP, but stuff like AutoCAD and Maya is waaaaay more complex. Full-featured NLEs aren’t trivial, but they aren’t the most complex software out there by a long shot.”
We may be talking about two different things, Andrew. I’m talking about the difficulties in authoring, not in learning/using. As such I’ll stand by my claim. NLE’s must do a wide variety of tasks for a wide variety of uses and users. They must interface with the analogue world of a wide spectrum of hardware. I can’t imagine that any 3D software, as complex as they are to learn and use, is as complex to write. But maybe one of the Adobe engineers who respond to questions here could venture an opinion without bias.
[Andrew Richards] “I guess it depends on your definition of “great”, but for OS X’s part, the engineers that built it at NeXT went to work at Apple and turned it into OS X, so it isn’t like Apple didn’t have or doesn’t now have top-teir engineering talent. Autodesk didn’t develop Smoke, they bought Discreet. After Effects originated outside Adobe. Avid acquired DS. What’s the difference?”
A fair point about OSX requiring good engineering (‘great’ would depend on your pov but I’ll grant you that :). Autodesk absorbed the discreet engineering team, but Autocad was almost completely developed in house. Adobe developed PremierePro completely in house. But point out a ‘major’ app (other than OSX)that Apple developed from the ground up.
[Andrew Richards] ” Premiere Pro has yet to achieve the same cachet (and it looks like it will soon)”
It seems Adobe is fully committed to competing at the high end. I think we’ll see some good uptake this year and when their media management rivals Avid’s they’ll be well positioned.
David
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Well and passionately put, Scott.
I would question if FCPX will ever be up to main stream high-end use. I do believe that Apple probably intends to get there but on its own terms. However NLEs are the most complex applications in computerdom and it would take them a number of years (possibly 3, as many as 5) before they could even hope to regain a footing as a player in the high end. In that time, of course the competition won’t be standing still. And both Adobe and Autodesk and even Avid have superb engineering and the freedom to develop innovative technology that Apple, perhaps, as primarily an ‘experience’ company, doesn’t have. What great applications have they ever developed in house from scratch? Even the non-application OSX is derived from elsewhere.
So I’m not convinced that despite what I perceive as their intentions, that they’ll again be a major player in the higher end of the industry. They made their bed with FCPX and the use categories it serves, and that will most certainly spill over into the high end here and there, but will they ever be a fixed point around which most of the industry revolves? I very much doubt it.
David
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Now, being captivating while demoing an update to a box that will let you watch movies on your TV or using the word ‘magical’ to describe a tablet and keeping a straight face… That’s a totally different breed. 😉
It’s the same totemization of an idea whether it’s a gadget or a political philosophy. In both cases the audience believes in magic. Which is more delusional? I couldn’t judge.
David
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