Erik Lundberg
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Hm. Don’t forget the audio professionals. Audio professionals (or, at least a lot of them) crave PCIe-slots. A whole bunch of them.
Erik Lundberg
Technical Director, Media Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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[Clint Wardlow] ” I am freezing my current mac in time and hoping it will still work 3 years from now”
We’re doing a time freeze thing to the workstations at our facility. All our Mac Pro’s 2010 have been fitted with new hard drives, and I’m leaving FCPS2/Snow Leopard untouched on the old system drive. Clean install of Lion on the new drive, which will hold FCPX, CS6, Smoke and Lightwo^H^H^Hwhatever. In six months time, I guess the perspective on both FCPX and the rest has shifted a lot, and most likely we have singled out one of them as the main platform, with the rest of them on there as well, in case we have work or editors that need other tools.
Erik Lundberg
Technical Director, Media Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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[Clint Wardlow] “The stuff was so flammable, we would have one editor burst into flames every month”
LOL! Good words of wisdom.
Erik Lundberg
Technical Director, Media Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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[Tim Wilson] “c) Old guys like me are smarter than all of you punks because we’re OLD.”
I don’t concider myself old at all yet (planning on becoming old later on), but this is still one of the most solid video editing platforms I’ve ever worked with. The one at work hasn’t been used properly now for the last three years, and sad to say I’ve sent it to the attic just this january.
One of the best things about older more experienced co-workers (some of mine has been in broadcast since the late 60’s) is that I’ve had a lot of direct access to a vast knowledge base. One of the worst is that they’re starting to retire now. Which in turn will eventually lead to the scary point when I’m supposed to be the one who should know stuff.
Erik Lundberg
Technical Director, Media Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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[Tim Wilson] “Wherever it came from, ignore it. :-)”
So, we can say Lightworks without being threadnapped by overly enthousiastic moderators? Neat. Because I think that we do need to discuss it (=Lightworks) within the scope of this forum, and not just isolated in its own Lightworks forum.
Erik Lundberg
Technical Director, Media Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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[Paul Dickin] “Redmatica is basically a giant database management tool for organising audio samples”
Hm… Database management… one application springs to mind. Paired with the information sessions around NAB where Apple promised to look into and deliver audio goodness for fcpx- well, that database management for audio samples might come handy. I wonder what Redmatica brings that fcpx lacks in this departement? Does anyone here have more insight? If Redmatica is intended for fcpx (if Apple is indeed acquiring the company) I’m more than curious to find out what that means for fcpx audio capabilities (God knows it needs a lot in that departement).
Erik Lundberg
Technical Director, Media Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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[Chris Conlee] ” All the NLEs — Pros and Cons?”
I’d say that a forum of this kind needs (or at least benifits from) a thought provocative name. ‘Apple FCPX or Not’ is just that, in the aftermath of last years trauma (or not). So I’d say it does a good job for the forum.
I think that a more “stringent” name would beget a more “boxed in” debate.
One thing Apple succeeded at with in the way FCPX was released was to provoke a lot of us (oh- at least me, but I get the feeling I’m not alone here) into really think about what the frak we’re doing, and why. And vent a lot around that. Which I personally think is good. To get forward I at least need to stop staring at my feet. I think the debate is key for me in seeing the path forward NLE-wize (it’s not all clear yet, but slowly getting there), to get more aware of exactly what our current needs and future needs are and to get a perspective on our facility and what need change to get better.
Erik Lundberg
Technical Director, Media Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/321/47
Oh- and if anybody of some reason has interest in the original thread…
Erik Lundberg
Technical Director, Media Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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To add to that, the educational licensing available from Adobe (this is not unique to them, several other software companies does the same thing, Apple included) gives you a very good rebate for us, but no upgrades.
So in my machine, where I first installed CS3, there are 4 seats. And I’m (yet) not using Pr for actual editing. I’m primarily in it for AE.
Erik Lundberg
Technical Director, Media Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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[Tony Sarafoski] “I love that you can press Command+R and drag the end of a clip to retime, but I absolutely HATE how I just can’t select a bunch of clips and give them a value of 70%, seriously what’s with that…!
Also I HATE how I have to change each individual clip to frame blending instead of being able to set this as a default setting.
In my eyes, this is the part the development team got wrong…!
Anyone else agree..?
“Absolutely. We need a lot more functionality in the timeline such as this. Such as copy/paste singled out attributes.
Erik Lundberg
Technical Director, Media Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden