David Roth weiss
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[Peter Corbett] “Looking forward to the new Lumetri features.”
Me too!!!
[Peter Corbett] “It seems lthat much of the post world has migrated to Premiere. It’s not sneered at anymore. 🙂
“Agreed! And, if we had said that right around the time Apple EOL’d FCP 7, people would thought we were loony. Got to give Adobe credit in many areas, but it’s the Holy Grail of no transcoding and seamless playback of anything on the timeline that truly sets it apart from the rest.
David Roth Weiss
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David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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[Dave LaRonde] “FCP deals in standard broadcast horizontal & vertical resolutions, and 1024×768 isn’t one of them.”
Are you 100% certain Dave? That was a very common widescreen SD format in the day.
DRW
David Roth Weiss
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David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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Oh no, I was jesting old friend. I honestly have absolutely no idea when the new version is going to be released. However, Adobe has been pretty exceptional in getting out their releases. And, they didn’t have the need to change the century-old vernacular of our business while doing so. 🙂
David Roth Weiss
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David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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Oh my God, it’s a voice from the past… Hi Peter!
I consulted my crystal ball, and it says Adobe will release CC 2015 sometime in the next 7-months… 🙂
David Roth Weiss
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David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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If you have just a single Thunderbolt 2 drive you’re still VERY far from the best solution. Transcoding six cameras worth of video to Pro Res might help, but you’re not using Premiere for its best quality, the ability to play anything without transcoding, which is the Holy Grail of editing.
Hard drives are very inexpensive, your time is worth considerably more than a proper RAID.
David Roth Weiss
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David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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Alex,
Just to add a bit of science to what Dennis said and to what your friend didn’t tell you… You need a hard drive RAID with at least two drives striped together, and preferably more.
Why? The rule of thumb is, every time you double the number of spinning drives in a RAID set you virtually double its throughput. So, in addition to keeping the drive activity of your boot drive from interfering with playback of your six streams of video, you’d get much higher throughput as well.
Call OWC or the Videoguys, both companies know Thunderbokt storage on the Mac very well.
David Roth Weiss
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David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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Nice analysis Tim!
What strikes me about the extremely high valuation the Carlisle Group is placing on Nuke is that they are not only up against Blackmagic, they are up against BM’s model of giving away the software either for free, or for close to free. For example, Resolve Lite is free, the paid version is just $1000 – Fusion 7 is free, Fusion Studio is just $995.
While Adobe can certainly afford to pay the asking price for Nuke, and could even afford to eat that by killing the product if they determine Nuke is either not a fit, or somehow hurts their After Effects business, it seems to me they’d only buy Nuke if they truly intend to develop it further. And, that sounds like it could be a race against BM to the bottom, which BM usually tends to win.
Just for the record, by saying BM wins the race to the bottom, I’m not saying they produce crap – far from that, they just tend to use their acquisitions to enhance their huge product line, which spreads to cost over their entire huge product line and takes the pressure to make a profit off any individual product in their mix. Unless Adobe wants to knowingly spend a bloody fortune to follow BM down that same path, I think they would do better to either pass, or to lowball the Carlisle Group to get Nuke at a much more reasonable valuation.
BTW, while Nuke now has a free version of their software, giving them some head to head competition against the free version of Fusion, their free software does NOT appear to offer unrestricted commercial use, like the free versions of Fusion and Resolve do. So, Blackmagic’s model may already give them a significant advantage in capturing new users, which traditionally tends to ensure product sustainability, at least it has at BM.
David Roth Weiss
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David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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Bob, call me.
If you’re nice I’ll give you helpful information – keep up the sarcasm and I’ll make sure to confuse the hell out you.
David Roth Weiss
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David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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If memory serves me correctly, 1024 X 768 is SD, not HD, and does not use square pixels. Sounds like your client is using an old video projector…
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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Call me Bob…
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.