[Dennis Radeke]

I’ll toss this into the fire as well since I’m sounding very ‘pro-pc’ today (though I’m not!)… 😉

I would be interested in comments on this article:
https://www.cringely.com/2011/08/is-the-mac-pro-dead/

[Dennis Radeke]

[Craig Seeman] ”
Granted one can get a more powerful PC than a Mac Pro and iMacs have limited expansion, I’d be cautious to generalize about price. Once you put together a powerful professional PC workstation it’s not going to be that much cheaper than some Macs. Look at what a decked out HPZ400 or Z800 workstation costs. Consider why the cost what they do compared to other PCs.”

I’ve seen this a couple of times from you Craig and I think you need to do a little more research on the PC side. In a general sense, you’re absolutely right, a high-end, professional system cannot be had for chump change. However, to systematically dismiss the total cost of ownership differences between Mac and PC for ALL video editors isn’t appropriate either.

There are a couple of key points that I would make here:
– A similarly equipped PC is generally less expensive than it’s Mac counterpart. I was excited for a time when this wasn’t so and Mac’s were basically the same price, but it seems (again in general) that PC’s costs are less expensive than similarly equipped Macs.
– The HP Z line (of which I am a huge fan) is a product line and not a single chassis with different guts like the current MacPro. This gives you a ton more pricing and configuration options. If you need to go cheap but have a PCI-E slot or two, you can go with the Z400. If you need more power and a slim chassis design, there is the Z600. If you need monster power (and a better tooless chassis) then there is the Z800.
– That ‘decked out’ PC that costs as much or more than a Mac Pro will generally run rings around the MacPro. This isn’t a scientific fact from yours truly, just my general observations at having used both platforms for many years. Many other people have taken the time to run tests and I believe my statement has a lot of support.
– Choice…There are MANY more CPU, GPU and motherboard choices that you can make with any single vendor. In this tech-aware/educated world, we as content creators can make many of the choices that Apple makes for us. We can create the best balanced system (which is particularly important for Adobe users) for us based upon our current budget. This choice can also be represented by purchasing a PC from a vendor like HP, or a white-box from a video reseller or perhaps the most exciting of all – build your own box. On the Apple side, you have a choice of where you build the Mac – Apple website, Apple Store, Apple dealer: you get the same net results but not the same control and choice.

And since we’re picking on HP and I’ve seen some FUD around it…even if HP spins of the PC unit to another company or as a new entity, it will be the largest PC company in the world. We’ve also seen a successful example of this in the past with IBM spinning off it’s PC business to Lenovo.

Cheers,
Dennis – Adobe guy

[Dennis Radeke]

[Jamie Franklin] “Is there an option somewhere in PPro, like FC where I can drag a clip from the bin into the timeline and it asks if I’d like to auto-conform the sequence to the clip settings? Or is this all still a manual process…?”

Yes, you can either right click on a clip in the project panel and create a sequence from it’s attributes or you can drag that same clip to the ‘new item’ button at the bottom of the project panel and accomplish the same thing.

Hope this helps,
Dennis

[Dennis Radeke]

True and we acknowledge this. Like any software developer, we’re always choosing which of the hundreds or thousands of features are most important to the widest range of users. When we first did multi-cam, we knew that providing 4 cameras would address ~95% of the people who needed to use multi-cam. However, for game shows, concerts and other events, 4 is simply not enough.

We have identified improving our multi-camera editing experience as one of the more important features.

That said, I do think that there are a couple of nice things about Premiere Pro’s multi-cam as compared to FCP 7. First, is the idea that you can mix multiple cameras types. For example, P2 and XDCAM. The other nifty feature that I think is useful is that anything can be considered a camera including a sequence. In theory that does help expand the possibilities of the multi-camera environment in Premiere Pro.

All of the above aside, we know that improving multi-cam is important for our users. And as you can tell from my coy response, that is all I’m prepared to say on it. 😉

Dennis – Adobe guy

[Dennis Radeke]

[Mark Morache] “Thank you Adobe.”

You’re welcome. 😉 Check out a lot of the tutorials that are on Adobe TV and elsewhere to get up to speed on whatever apps you intend to embrace.

[Mark Morache] “Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX”

Please add Adobe. I mean if you have Xpri there, you gotta add us. I remember the Xpri well (smile)…

[Dennis Radeke]

[Mark Morache] “Yes indeed, I actually heard from Adobe.”

Hey Mark, glad they got back in touch with you. I’m actually on vacation, but still check some forums every day and noticed your original post and passed it on. We’re trying to stay involved with our users and the forums is one of those ways. Glad to know that you’re near one of our big offices too.

Be well,
Dennis – Adobe guy

[Dennis Radeke]

[Shane Ross] ” Adobe works natively…but really only if you have a lot of things helping it. NVidia card to enable CUDA to kick in the Mercury Engine…and fast processors, and lots of RAM.”

I would take a slightly different point of view overall. You can use a MBP or iMac and edit effectively. The question is HOW MUCH real-time do you want/need? More memory and the GPU card will definitely give you more real-time. I wrote this some time ago for Mac people prior to FCP X. It may help some.

Premiere Pro on a Mac – what is the truth?

[Dennis Radeke]

For the Adobe side, you can probably look at this:
https://tv.adobe.com/watch/creative-suite-in-the-enterprise/deploying-cs5-with-aamee/

Cheers,
Dennis

[Dennis Radeke]

[Gary Pollard] “But a nice two-sided page turn would be nice. The single-sided one in there right now is amateur hour.”

Understood and agree. We should do it with the CUDA technology too. Can I ask/recommend that you file it as a feature request here?

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

We’ve received a large influx of feature requests from FCP users and we’re constantly tabulating them and reviewing them, so everyone can pile on. Just keep it classy. 😉

[Dennis Radeke]

[Bill Paris] ” listening Adobe and Avid?”

Yes we are Bill.

Dennis – Adobe guy