Dustin Parsons
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[Walter Soyka] “CC Composite needs to be applied after (below) the Glow effect.”
Got it! Thanks, I prefer this method as it doesn’t generate as many layers to keep track of.
[Walter Soyka] “You could also use the Set Matte effect on the fractal noise layer, so you only have a single text source to control both effects.”
Even better. Here’s how I have my layers stacked now:
[Text Layer]
Effect: Glow
Effect: CC Composit[Fractal Noise Layer]
Effect: Set MatteThanks Walter!
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CC Composite isn’t working for me, when I set it to Silhouette Alpha it hides the entire layer including the glow. The other method worked, I created 2 more text layers, added the glow to the bottom layer and set it’s trackmatte to the top text layer and the blend mode to Alpha Inverted Matte.
Thanks Walt!
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[Gary Huff] “Right now, you can walk into your Best Buy and purchase any number of sizes and technologies (LCD/Plasma/LED) and features (3D, 240Hz, ect). and buy a $99 Apple TV to have that interface if you so desire.”
That’s the problem. Just like I’ve never bought a Mac monitor because other companies make them just as good, at a lower price point, with a very similar minimalistic design, I think it’s going to be difficult to convince people to throw out their existing TVs and buy a new one when they can just pick up the $99 Apple TV now and have the exact same experience. The only way a dedicated Apple TV will work is if they discontinue the standalone $99 unit and use their interface as a selling point for the TV, other than that I can’t see it working.
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Sticking with my 2008 MacPro for now, just bought a Quadro 4000 and am in the transitioning stage between FCP7 and Premiere CS6. FCPX is intriguing but I do a lot of motion graphics and I much prefer After Effects to Motion so I’d rather stay within the Adobe ecosystem seeing as I’m in PS and AE every day and I want as seamless a workflow as possible. Disclaimer: I’ve only dabbled in Premiere CS6 so far but from what I’ve seen, I’m excited to make the change.
Oh yeah… and I guess there’s Avid. I just can’t get excited for Avid – I’ll learn it if I have to but every time I go back and give it a shot I can’t shake the feeling that this is an old, slow, unintuitive program that, no matter how many version I skip before trying it again, doesn’t seem to change much.
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You might want to check out Adobe Speedgrade, it comes with the CS6 Production Suite and would save you having to go into FCP7 at all. Here’s a quick video about roundtripping from Premiere.
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Yeah, I’ll definitely put in a feature request. I was just hoping some FCP7 users might have run into the same issue and figured out a better workflow than manually importing one folder at a time.
Importing my SFX folder is not going to be fun…
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Sorry Todd, I should have mentioned that in my initial test I did not use the Media Browser however, I have since tried importing folders using the Media Browser and it imports them the exact same way as the other methods I tried.
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Nope, I tried dragging and dropping from the Finder and I also tried File > Import… – both gave me the same results.
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I think it makes sense for the average consumer like my mom or brother who only use computers for surfing the internet, watching movies, and wordprocessing –their 4 year old machines can do everything they need just as good as new laptops Apple recently debuted. They also know absolutely nothing about the hardware they’re using and don’t care the learn so when something breaks, it’s not a simple 5 minute google search to figure out what the problem is and how to fix, they don’t even know the basics of where to start troubleshooting so it’s much easier for them to bring it to Apple or someone who know’s what they’re doing.
For professionals, it’s a completely different story. I’m on an Early 2008 MacPro and am working with terabytes of 1080p footage everyday, often creating motion graphics in AE and PS and generally pushing the processors and ram to their limits. That being the case, I recently upgraded the ram to 16GB and just yesterday purchased the nVIDIA Quadro 4000, I feel like I have a new computer and I didn’t have to drop nearly the amount of $ as I would have if I actually did.
I think the main thing to remember is there are really 2 camps of people, the decidedly smaller camp of professional who need to upgrade more often to keep up with new technology and the much larger camp of average users who don’t need to upgrade because their computers will be able to do everything they need it to up until the day it completely dies.
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[Oliver Peters] “My gut feeling is that there WILL be a new Mac Pro in 2013 and it will be of a configuration that most pros don’t want and can’t use.”
They could call it MacPro X, that way people can’t complain when it doesn’t connect to the internet because it’s a version 1.
All kidding aside, Tim Cook’s ambiguous statements of “something great” is too reminiscent of a promise of “awesome” from Steve Jobs.
