Derek Andonian
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[Aindreas Gallagher] one of the things I noticed was that the marker ranges are exposed really nicely?
this thing?
https://i.imgur.com/IDbajfy.jpg
That does look nice. Now that I think about it, I do vaguely remember reading something about this when CS6 first came out. I’m still in CS5 Land, so I’m not familiar with Prelude. It seems pretty cool though.
Well, now that I know about this, my brief (very brief) positive view of FCPX is at an end. It would be nice to have this sort of thing built right into Premiere, but I’d rather do it in Prelude than switch to X.
It is nice to see, though, that beneath the ultra-simplistic facade and the flashy circus animations, there IS still some well thought out professional-oriented stuff in there…
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If you have AE you should check out the “Timewarp” effect. I don’t know how it does it but it creates beautiful slo-mo from regular footage that looks like it was shot at a higher frame rate even though it wasn’t.
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[Mark Dobson] But I do like the idea of a new strand of names, Mounting Stallion, Pony, Shirehorse . . . . . .
OSX Clydesdale would be pretty cool…
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Bernard Newnham it’s been amazing watching the hopes, fears and aspirations, which seem to have really reached a close now, as most seem to be migrating to Premiere Pro. Probably, very quietly, they’re picking the PC based version, since they can have new expandable gear whenever they wish.
This new Premiere Pro certainly could make things interesting if the “really great” Mac Pro fails to impress. Because if this thing lives up to the hype there will be- for the first time- a real, bona fide, honest-to-goodness FCP7 equivalent on the PC platform.
An HP Z-series or something similar with the next Premiere Pro loaded on it will be a force to be reckoned with- especially now that multiple GPUs can be utilized for encoding…
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[Andy Field] Didn’t Tim Cook say we’d see something amazing this year?
I don’t remember his exact words, but it was something like this:
“Although we didn’t talk about a new Mac Pro at WWDC, we have something really great for our pro users planned for later next year.”
So with that in mind, Fall seems like a reasonable timeframe.
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[Oliver Peters] Wonder if they are waiting for 20Gb/s Tbolt in 2014 from Intel?
If you ask me, everyone who thinks Apple is waiting on some sort of new technology before they upgrade the Mac Pro is only kidding themselves. 20 Gigabit Thunderbolt sounds amazing, but It’s been, what- three and a half years now or something? That’s AT LEAST two full refresh cycles! Surely they could throw SOMETHING appealing together in the meantime…
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[Steve Connor] [Joseph W. Bourke] “AE is the engine – the third party plugins are the wheels..”
Perhaps that’s how we can describe FCPX then?
The problem is, going by this analogy, the engine only has half as many pistons as it’s capable of holding- unlike the model that came out the year before, which had all of them in there. And if you want your engine to be as powerful as it is really capable of being, you have to go to an after-market auto shop.
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[Steve Connor] How many AE artists don’t have any third party plugins?
Well, ok, but how many AE artists have ever had to go to a third party to access their old projects? That to me is just ludicrous. What if Apple releases a significant update for FCPX that breaks compatibility with 7 to X- or completely hoses the the functionality of it? Then you have to wait for a new release of 7 to X before you can upgrade, if you need to access FCP7 stuff…
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[Brett Sherman] So you’re saying you’re positive Adobe is addressing this and positive that Apple is not? Based on what exactly?
No, I’m not positive that Apple isn’t working on it. I’m just saying we don’t know what’s going on at apple right now. I’ve seen comments here about people having heard that Apple knows there are things that need to be fixed, but nothing specific about individual features.
As far as media management in Premiere, yes- I know they’re working on it. As I mentioned in another thread, at the last meeting of the Premiere Pro user group that I go to David McGavran, the senior engineering manager for Premiere Pro, came and did a demo of the next version. While he was there the issue of the media manager crashing came up and David explained that it was added back in the days of tape formats like DV- before file-based formats that are based on a folder structure became widespread. He then said that the issue is being worked on. When I hear the Senior Engineering Manager for Premiere Pro say that this is being worked on, I’m inclined to believe him- especially after seeing that demo. Not long after CS6 came out, I remember seeing comments from Adobe acknowledging the shortcomings of the track-based audio mixer for people who want to mix at the clip level, and saying that a solution is being worked on. Now the next version has a clip-based audio mixer added to it. And there are lots of other specific issues that have been brought up here that are now fixed in the new version. So with that in mind I believe I can confidently say that yes, the Media Manager issues are being worked on.
Even in the new release, Premiere Pro isn’t perfect. No NLE is. But it is nice knowing that if there’s something in Premiere that needs to be addressed, the criticism about it won’t fall on deaf ears- or at least appear to.
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[Mathieu Ghekiere] you can just make a duplicate of a sequence and name it version 1 or whatever, and work further on version 2. Also check Digital Rebellions ProVersioner tool.
I really don’t like the way FCPX requires you to go to third parties for things that should have been there to begin with.
[Mathieu Ghekiere] I still prefer color wheels.
Me too. I’m glad Premiere has them.
[Mathieu Ghekiere] “No Media Management for saving with trimmed Media”
Does Premiere Pro allow this? You can save media with FCPX, or even only the used clips you have in your timeline. But no handles. I’m pretty sure that’s coming in an update.Premiere Pro does have this, but it doesn’t work well for formats that are based on a “folder structure”. During the demo of the next version that I saw, someone brought this up, and we were told that they are working on it- and after seeing all the major improvements that are comming in the next version, I can say very confidently that I belive it.
[Mathieu Ghekiere] Buy Event Manager X. Seriously. It’s a 4 dollar app.
Another 3rd party add-on to buy to fix something that should have been there to begin with, eh? Geez. Yes, it’s only four bucks, but with Premiere this issue is never there to begin with, so you don’t need to buy anything to fix it. So now you can meet with someone at Starbucks and have a tall White Chocolate Mocha while you’re there, and feel good about the fact that you were able to spend time with a friend over coffee instead of spending more money to fix another one of your NLE’s glaring shortcomings…
[Mathieu Ghekiere] Yes, I would like to have Apple set custom resolutions in a project, I hope they add this (I’m pretty sure they will). But there is a perfectly working work-around for this, described here on Creative Cow. Search Google for Creative Cow Custom Resolutions or something. It works perfectly.
But, see, with Premiere you don’t have to hope it gets added, and you don’t have to do a google search, then come to the Cow, then go through the steps of doing a workaround- because it’s there already.
[Mathieu Ghekiere] “Missing possibility to inspect clip from timeline in event viewer”
You can always just click the clip and use the shortcut SHIFT+F (if I’m not mistaken). Reveals it in the Event Browser…In Premiere, you just right-click the clip in the timeline and go to Properties, and it comes right up.
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“Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.”