Eric Jurgenson
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To clarify that last statement: Apple strangled it, and Autodesk stabbed it in the heart.
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The thing is, if the tracks aren’t right there on the main interface where you can see them, what good is it to be able to assign clips to specific tracks in the background? This is key timeline information, and it clearly isn’t there.
Maybe they have an “old style” button that switches back to a more functional interface.
I must apologize. Mark and I are old EDITors, and frankly we were spoiled by it’s simple beauty.
Murdered by Autodesk and Apple ten years ago, and still I pine.
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I remember that Network had a soundalike track. They sold their library to another company maybe five years ago – not sure who – maybe Killer Tracks?
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Yeah, it’s sort of like ACID for music composition. Great for moving chunks around. But what if you want to move PARTS of a chunk around? Very confusing.
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To me, this is quite different from a nodal interface, which I think of more as a patch panel. Timelines need to show relationships to program time, which nodes don’t do very well.
I’m more concerned about the ability to assign clips to tracks that can be muted, mixed, and solo’d. I don’t see any way around this being an absolute requirement for serious editing.
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I don’t see any track header on the interface. I wonder how you select tracks, mute, solo, label, etc.
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Not a lot of detail in tghat picture, but interface looks like the bastard child of an illicet marrige between Avid and Adobe.
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Am I the only one who thinks $400. for a point upgrade is totally over the top? The only significant new feature I see in Premiere is closed caption support, and that may not be complete (I’m guessing SDI embedding via 3rd party adaptors only; no MPEG TS file embedding).
OK, we are getting Audition back, which is great, although I ALREADY HAVE IT.
Can someone explain to me why this is a good deal?
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Final Gasp
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Okay, I’m sorry. The video editing business is doing great and getting better. Wages are increasing every year. There are lots of great employment opportunities in the business for both the young and the experienced. There is an online delivery scheme that gives you copyright protection and the ability to charge a fair price for your product. Instead of trying to do it for themselves (or hiring their snotty nosed nephew with an iMac), people are still inclined to hire experienced professionals, with the assurance that a better product will make them more money.
Let’s face it. It’s a lot easier to edit than it was 25 years ago. People think they can do it for themselves, and – guess what? They can! And with the new FCS4, it will be even easier.
Video editing has gotten a lot more fun, a lot cheaper to get into, and at the same time a lot harder to make a buck at. Anyone want to start a union? (probably a bad time for that – apologies to ACE)