Dennis Radeke
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Guess, I should have known what I was getting myself into here huh? 😉
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[Michael Gissing] “Denis, has machine controlled been worked on. Walter Biscardi reported playing out to tape with machine control felt slugish in CS5.5.
I am interested in an integrated finishing system with grading but I must have timecode accurate playout to HDCam. I note that Tangent Wave is supported. Please let me know when video tutorials on Speedgrade are available.”
Tape control has been in the hands of our third party manufacturers for some time (CS5). Since RS422 control requires hardware, we made the decision to give that work to companies like AJA, Blackmagic and Matrox some time ago.
We understand the importance of deck control both capture and export and we are working VERY closely with our hardware vendors to ensure that we have reliable solutions for our users.
With CS6 we have made the first step on making monitoring completely seemless. For example, you won’t see an AJA folder in Premiere Pro any longer unless they have specific codecs or things outside of Adobe codec/sequences. This means that your RED sequence should just play out of Premiere Pro + AJA (or BMD or Matrox, etc.) without thinking about it. Longer term, we would like to extend that transparency to other aspects like capture and export. Of course, that’s the future and obviously, things change.
Bottom line – it depends on your hardware i/o partner and their commitment to deck control.
re: Walter – We of course respect Walter’s opinion and input and we have worked with him during the CS6 cycle and hope to continue that. Each user has different needs and wants. For Walter at this time, deck control are higher up than we were able to deliver this go around. We view this feature as a priority.
Lastly, Tangent Wave I think is supported by SpeedGrade, not Premiere Pro. I can double check on this.
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[Christopher Travis] ” I see that CS6 will have broader support for Radeon GPUs, but the blurb only mentions the models that come with the Macbook Pro. We have 3 Mac Pros with Radeon 5770s in them. Will CS6 be able to utilise these?”
The ways that users worked around limited NVIDIA GPU lists should also work for ATI. I’m sure other people (non-Adobe employees!) can turn you on to the trick. That said….
We go out of our way to certify compatibility with certain cards but we also acknowledge we can’t stay in front of the GPU manufacturers with new cards popping up all of the time. So, we pick a few of the most important ones and work on those. We stand behind those chosen cards.
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[Tapio Haaja] “Our facility works on top of Apple’s XSAN so my question is have you tested Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 with XSAN and are there some known issues?”
As a general rule, as long as the storage is providing consistent throughput, it should work just fine. I haven’t played with it, so there could be some issues. The devil is always in the details with any storage SAN/NAS system.
More importantly, we’re working closely with Active Storage who are many of those Apple employees and we’re working together to certify a workflow.
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[Michael Aranyshev] “Can you select a bunch of clips in the Project tab, Command-C them and then Command-V them onto the timeline?”
No, but you’ve got a ton of similar ways to get your media there. Premiere Pro has a very cool automate to timeline feature that would give you more control. you of course can also, control click and multi-select and then drag to the timeline and it would instance the clips in the selected order.
[Michael Aranyshev] “Can you select a bunch of clips in the Timeline, Command-C them and then Command-V them into the Project tab?”
I’m not sure why I would want to do that if the clips were already in your project? Because they’re trimmed?
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I answered before I read the last two. I read the books just like every other male kid of my age. 😉
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[Jeremy Garchow] “What’s the meaning of life? What would do for a Klondike bar?
and my favorite,
If CS6 leaves Boston at 65 mph how long does it take to download?”
Meaning of life – 42
Klondike Bar – not much but I won’t turn one away if it’s offered to me.
Download – No matter how fast, it will still take a while!😉
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[al ellis] “hi, i heard somewhere that 3d photoshop objects/layers were no longer supported in cs6 is this true? and if so, does this mean the new programme achitectue is now a real 3d space which in the future may support .obj .fbx etc.?”
Photoshop 3D objects into After Effects is indeed not working as Photoshop changed a lot about their 3D architecture and so did After Effects. There wasn’t enough time connect the two and make it work right so we’ll have to deal with it.
I used to show Repousse from Photoshop into After Effects but anyone who has noodled with it, knows it’s kind of a hack and there are definite limitations about the ‘3d’ in After Effects. With true 3D extrusion in After Effects and a ray-tracing engine, I think we’re taking a first step into a much larger world for After Effects.
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[Dustin Parsons] ” One thing that intrigued me about FCPX was it’s use of Tags or Keywords for entire clips or as a range based section of a clip for super fast organization and grouping. Is there anything like this in Premiere Pro 6?”
searching capabilities – yes.
static and temporal metadata – yes.
using metadata to create virtual subclips – yes.Doing it the way FCP X does it? – no.
Using the keywords to organize the project – no.In the end, you’ll have to give it a try and see if it fits what you like about FCP X’s way.
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[Shawn Miller] “I have a question about the camera tracker. After you resolve a shot in AE, can the tracking information be exported into a scene file for other 3D applications like Maya or Cinema 4D?”
I think the answer would be yes, because you see the camera keyframes and can copy them into the clipboard and paste into a spreadsheet as a worse case scenario. Also, we’re working with 3D companies and you may some nifty tricks from them in the future.