Dennis Radeke
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First David, thanks for your response and yes, I totally understand the tenor/tone in which you voice your concerns. I think in order to be in this business, you need to have a thick skin to begin with! It’s also worth commenting that the Cow forums are a beacon of independent yet polite discourse on the subjects that we all care passionately about. So bravo to all of you!
[David Mathis] “As a hobby and sometimes freelance work, CC is just not a viable option for me because of the current subscription model.”
Yup, totally get that. My only qualifying statement would be that if you’re earning just $1000 a year in some kind of freelance work, then the software has paid for itself and left you a few $$$ left over for other equipment to ‘fund’ your habit. Side note – I have far to many ‘habits’ that I have to fund! Who knew hobbies could be so expensive!
[David Mathis] “Short term I think I would be fine but over the long term I simply feel that it will be too expensive.”
Again, there is a month option if you get a gig to turn on activation for a month. If you have a billable job, then you have just to add a line item to your quote. Not defending or diminishing your statement or thoughts, just putting out there that Adobe does try to make choices available in as many scenarios as possible.
[David Mathis] “the current model is meant for studios and mid to large size businesses, some small business but as an individual user I feel the cost is a bit much.”
As a guy who spends the majority of his time on large size businesses (I’m in the New York area), I could understand where you’re coming from but the truth is that individual memberships are also a big part of our market and we’re doing well there. As a company who just announced another 500,000 new users, I am sure that a good chunk of them are individuals.
[David Mathis] “I would consider subscribing if there was some type of buyout option after a set time. At present I respectfully disagree with the current model.”
I would love to see something that rewards membership as well. Hopefully we’ll see something like that in the future and you can be sure that I make it known to the powers that be when the opportunity presents itself.
As always, thanks for the discourse and conversation. We’ll hope to earn your business and enthusiasm in the future. Until then…
Cut hard,
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[David Mathis] “Adobe wants to serve a segment of the market”
Hi David,
I’m curious as to what you mean by this. From our point of view, we strive to make the best products that will address all segments of a given market (eg non-linear editing). That said, I could clearly be misunderstanding your intended meaning.
Thanks,
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Assuming that you’re using Adobe CC or later I would do the following.
Apply an adjustment layer to your timeline and apply a LUT to that. This is assuming that all of your media is BMD and pretty similar. This will give it the tonal characteristics you’re looking for. Then you can take the timeline into Speedgrade to adjust the LUT to fit you and to individually adjust the shots on a per clip basis to get your final grade.
HTH,
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If you’d really like to have only the portion of the video that you have selected with no handles, then perhaps the best way to do that would be to use Prelude as your ingest tool. If you explore Prelude, you will find that you can preview clips, make subclips and transcode/ingest the clip with no reference to the full length, original media.
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Hi Justin,
Sorry you’re experiencing some problems. Sounds to me like you need to clean your media cache database which is in Preferences>Media (if memory serves). You might also trash your preferences.
Dennis – Adobe guy
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You shouldn’t need to use Red Giant to upres a title. I just took a 1920×1080 title and used the scale option in the effect control panel and increased it 600% (maximum) and it looked pretty sharp in a 5k timeline.
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Robert,
Go here: CUDA downloads and be sure to click on the Mac tab. This will allow you to download CUDA for your Mac which will show up as a system preference.
Also, be sure to disable automatic graphics switching in the energy saver section. This will default all display options to your more powerful NVIDIA chip than the Intel one.
Dennis – Adobe guy
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Tim,
Herb has done a nice article on multicamera workflows that you might want to check out: Multicam Premiere Pro
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Noam posted his original article here from which your link is based: https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/335/72500#72629
His original article has several responses by other folks that ask the same questions as I do in the thread above.
At Adobe, we care very much about quality and are always continuously working on it as well as speed. Noam’s article was great with findings but had next to nothing in terms of testing methodology, settings, etc. When comparing visual quality, it is essential to have an understanding of what settings you were using. Otherwise, your conclusions may be skewed.
My offer to bring his findings to the Adobe Media Encoder team stands assuming we can get a full understanding of his settings and testing.
Dennis – Adobe guy