Dennis Radeke
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I understand and am confident that motherboards will have it.
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[Dave LaRonde] “Premiere Pro can indeed make good use of an Nvidia card… but it’s got to be one of the Quadro series.”
Not entirely true as we do support some older GeForce cards, but clearly Quadro cards are the way to go.
As a reminder, the GPU component is not necessary to run CS5 to fantastic advantage. A lot of people, especially Mac people think you can only get great performance out of CS5 if you install an nvidia card. That is patently not true, though the GPU is a VERY nice thing to have! 😉
I wrote a blog article on it that you might find useful.
https://blogs.adobe.com/genesisproject/2011/03/premiere-pro-on-a-mac-%E2%80%93-what-is-the-truth.html#more-546 -
[Craig Seeman] “Of course Adobe Premiere can jump on support.”
At NAB Adobe demonstrated a Blackmagic Thunderbolt device with Premiere Pro CS5.5 playing 3 streams of uncompressed 10 bit files simultaneously at full resolution on a laptop connected to a Promise Thunderbolt drive array. Its scrubbing ability was insane. Since it’s ultimately just an i/o thing – everyone can take advantage of this – Adobe, Apple, Avid, whoever.
[Craig Seeman] ”
Intel has already said no Thunderbolt PCIe cards. The chip must be built into the motherboard.”True, but who said Intel was the only motherboard manufacturer? It will probably take a while (2012) but I would fully expect PC vendors to have thunderbolt compatible devices and motherboards available.
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[Craig Seeman] “I really do think this is another chink in Avid “attraction” given the already limited I/O options they have. Given that one wont be able to install an nVidia card in an iMac, it can make FCPX look very attractive for speed compared to Premiere.”
Avid supports AJA and Matrox in addition to their own hardware, so I’m not sure that this is valid anymore.
As for Adobe, CS5 was already 64-bit enabled and already took advantage of Grand Central Dispatch and all of the RAM – FCP X promises to catch up in that regard, so you’re applauding Apple for finally supporting their own platform 3 years after they made a 64-bit OS and hardware.
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Hi Bob,
You bring up an interesting point Bob. Yes, Adobe has a studio in San Francisco where a lot of the videos get done but not everyone can get out there or has the inclination to do so. In the end, Adobe feels that getting the content and information out there by knowledge experts is more important than super-high consistent production values.
For my own program (which I haven’t done in several months), I opt to not have any headshots and just do screen capture which gives me the freedom to do it at home when its convenient.
Cheers,
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If you’re Premiere Pro install is on your Mac, then export to ProRes directly from Premiere Pro. Create a custom preset using ProRes (save it) and export away.
Good luck,
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[Shane Ross] “I am not as familiar with Adobe as I am with Avid and FCP. BUt CS3 seems too old. I believe the AVCIntra codec came out AFTER CS3 was introduced.”
You are correct. CS3 had support for P2 and with the last update (3.2), it had basic support for XDCAM. I believe AVC-Intra started with CS4.2
Dennis
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[Erik Lindahl] “Can we trust Adobe will keep up the race against the competition?”
No, you can count on us to lead. 😉 Sorry…couldn’t resist.
To directly answer your question, I would point to Adobe being able to keep up and lead in the areas that most affect editors and content creators today.
In tapeless workflows, Adobe has had a leadership position for a number of years. Avid has worked to catch up and I think that’s good for editors period. With FCP X, we do not know if their use of the word ‘native’ is in fact that, or just another spin at what FCP 7 calls native which is rewrapping or transcoding. The screenshot that people have talked about would lead some to conclude that the latter still holds true.
In integration with other apps, both Adobe and non-Adobe, again I think we’ve done well. Particularly the XML integration allows FCP users to drop in and out of Adobe if they so choose.
I could go on but the most important aspect of being able to confidently say, ‘yes, Adobe will continue to innovate for the users’ is that at NAB (when we announced CS5.5) we announced our intention to go to an bi-annual milestone release with a technology release on the in between years. What this means is that we’re telling you we’ll have CS6 in 2012 and presumably a .5 in 2013. I’m hoping to write a blog article on this in the near future to elaborate.
While I’ve probably went on rather too long, I hope this gives everyone the idea that Adobe is committed to the professional video space for the long haul and we’ll continue to listen to our users to help determine our future improvements.
To that last point, we’ve maintained a public feature request site that we tally results quarterly. We discuss them and often implement many of them in the ensuing versions. Here’s the link if you’re ever interested – it applies for all Adobe products I think…
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
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[David Roth Weiss] “I thought we might hear from you on that one Dennis.”
Clearly, I am too predictable! 😉
[David Roth Weiss] “Until the SuperMeet that seemed to be the case…”
I can’t speak for everybody, but I’ve known Apple’s been working on FCP X for well over a year. To that end, I’m sure that Apple and Avid heard about our 5.5 release some time ago too.
Now, Adobe has made it easier for Avid/Apple by telling them Adobe will ship a major release every two years (CS6 in 2012) and technology updates on the in between years. Given the rate of technology advances, I think this is a good move that allows users to choose when an updgrade is right for them. I’m hoping to have enough spare time to write a blog article on that very subject and will post here or FCP forum if appropriate.
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[Bret Williams] “I think the Adobe CS 5.5 was thrown into the mix so they wouldn’t be left out and just to have something at NAB of course.”
really? Adobe, Avid or anyone else doesn’t march to Apple’s beat. They have their own business plan and execute against it. Is Apple a big player, sure…but that doesn’t mean someone announces a version just to counter Apple. Software development of mature applications is far to complicated for someone just to show something at a moment’s notice.