David Cherniack
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@DRW You’re up rather early. Must be jitters….either that or BPH. But for either malady there are remedies…a good warm cup of milk dosed with your favorite granny liqueur, or Proscar(TM). But given the early hour right now on the Left Coast, how will you manage to stay up past 9pm to read all the twits…er, tweets? I suggest a nice little nap after your 4pm tea and muffins.
Seriously, I think the rest of us will be watching with fascination to see what the Cupertino boys have dreamed up…For myself, I really do hope it`s something completely original and brilliant and not just hype served with, and to, adoration. It seems clear they’re trying to chart a new course for the future. But we`ll see. One thing I will take bets on…there`ll be a iPad in there somewhere.
David
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`This is gonna be like the digital equivalent of choosing a new Pope. Across the world, people will be waiting with baited breath for that tweet equivalent of white smoke….`
A jaw-droppingly appropriate observation….The One True Church of this epoch.
I predict:
There will be smoke and there will be mirrors.
There will be cheering and there will be tears.
The world may shake but it will still be there tomorrow,
To help put things in perspective.
To all my FCP friends, may all your dreams come true. Enjoy.
David
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Having the old Audition is not quite the same thing as Audition CS5.5. Aside from some useful new features the new version has a back and forth work flow with Premiere Pro, where whole timelines and clips can be sent from Premiere Pro complete with volume and pan keyframes and stems can be sent back.
David
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Hi Fabrizio,
I do know that Adobe takes the memory issue very seriously. I’m also reasonably sure that it will be solved some day. Maybe sooner than later.
David
David
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Hi Erik,
[Erik Davis] “Did you ever give serious consideration to either FCP or Avid? Would you do anything differently considering the pretty major workarounds going on with PP now?”
I don’t think so. Basically, from what I gather from informed sources, there’s gotcha’s in each system out there. If you go to each forum you’ll see people screaming just as loudly as here. Of the big three, no one blows the other two away. So it’s a matter of pick’em. However if you’re main concern is media management it seems that Avid is head and shoulders above the other two in that area.
[Erik Davis] “What would be the top three things you would list here? If I were to ante up for a decent new Media Composer system, would my long form problems go away? Please keep in mind that the only software I have ever edited on is Discreet Edit!”
With Axio: Real Time (on color effects and graphics moves) terrific sound features, superb integration with the other members of the Suite. As far as integration Adobe wins hands down. AFAIK there’s no problems with long form in Avid.
I can’t speak to XDCamHD. Other Axio users seem very happy with the RT performance, though.
AFA edit* goes it’s been left behind long ago by the features of today’s NLEs so any comparison is moot. I will say this though. I enjoyed editing on edit* 80% of the time. On PPro it’s less than that on average. On a good day more..on a bad day, a lot less. On edit* I had momentary homicidal impulses directed at those responsible for the keyframer. On PPro…well, maybe it’s better left unsaid, but if I ever find myself sitting on a plane next to the product manager of 1.0 it will be a supreme test of my commitment to non-violence 🙂
Good luck with whatever you choose.
David
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Eric,
I’m also on Axio HD.
I’m presently doing a 2 hr documentary with about 1200 HDV clips and another couple of hundred SD and HD archival clips. Add to that a few hundred stills and multiple layers and you have a situation that PPro can’t handle as a single project. I’ve split it up into 8, each based on a template project of all the HDV material. Each project is around 50 MB.
I still have to restart 3 or 4 times a day as PPro runs out of memory. Part of the issue is that the Axio drivers also use a lot of resources and add a degree of complexity to the system that simple software editing using io cards don’t have to deal with.
The bottom line is that PPro has memory issues that may not be fully solved until the Adobe suite moves to 64 bits. Who knows when that will happen? The analogy with Microsoft is very apt. Adobe is too successful as a company to worry about professional editors and their needs in any truly meaningful way. If they did the memory issues would have been solved by version 2.
My take on the problems with PPro is that they stem back to version 1.0. Whoever was responsible for the design left it with a host of architectural and workability issues that we’ll be dancing around for the next 3 releases, if they ever get solved.
All that said, PPro with Axio is a very workable solution and does things that would make many high end Avid users green with envy. It’s just not perfect, requires a lot of workarounds, and can never approach the long form dexterity of discreet edit*.
David
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What’s your feeling about the headings in an informal two column table? – on screen of course. I did try the options you suggest, but in the end I felt that underling the headings worked best. Call me crazy.
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[Prime Mover] “You can make and manipulate underlines just as well, you just have to do it yourself.”
Which is exactly what I did, animating a thin rectangular shape. Not the most brilliant of solutions but it works.
David
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[Ron Lindeboom] “these boards are for FAR MORE than just answering your question(s), David. There are many less experienced users here, as well as many very experienced users.
The boards are here to broaden people’s perspectives and understanding of things.
If you want to hold it to a “you can only answer my question or I’ll fold my arms across my chest and hold my breath” formula, feel free.”
Ron,
None of that was my intent. Sorry if it came off that way. The questions were posed in the friendly spirit of debate.
David
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Nice creative solution. I’ll figure something out that works in the scene.
David