[Frank Gothmann]

[Andrew Richards] “Thunderbolt has the bandwidth to support that (duplex 1250 MB/sec).”

Thunderbolt has, but TB controllers don’t acchieve that bandwith. All tests usually max out at around 800 MB/s all chained devices in.

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[Frank Gothmann]

You can add markers to a sequence (ie across the top) as well as clips themselves. Yes, you can add comments. Markers are also part of a clips metadata so when you open that clip in a new project that marker will follow. Don’t know wether they ripple.

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[Frank Gothmann]

[Aindreas Gallagher] “also the marker thing is nuts. I can’t believe markers are only in prelude. that’s a crazy oversight.”

You can add markers without problems directly within PP. In fact, they even changed the keyboard shortcut to “m”.

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[Frank Gothmann]

I agree that it’s nice to stay inside one app but there are many other factors that come into play. Since they already use AE and presumably Photoshop (who doesn’t) I assume he has licenses so upgrading several seats will be much cheaper despite the clearly very competetive and great pricing for Smoke. Also, finding freelancers for AE is easy – no matter where you are and what your budget is. Finding someone for Smoke it a different story, also budget wise
AE is a powerhouse and Smoke, as great as it may be, doesn’t deminish that. And, last but not least, there are people who just don’t fancy the prospect of working on an iMac or a Laptop in the future; with with Adobe your have options.

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[Lance Bachelder] “Have you tried FCPX yet? Only asking because your workflow actually sounds ideal for FCPX. You could even ad a Smoke finishing station when it ships and not have to upgrade any hardware as they’re re-designed it from the ground up to run on every Mac from iMac to MacBook Pro.”

Since he wrote that most of his stuff goes through AE at a certain point, some projects almost entirely done there, I don’t see how FCPX or Smoke would be ideal. Premiere would be the perfect companion NLE in such a scenario.

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[Frank Gothmann]

Dropping the resolution doesn’t really help because the streams still need to be pulled unaltered from the drives. Dropping the resolution only helps if your CPU/GPU is taxed. You’d get dropped frames and stuttering if your drives can’t keep up but, frankly, I don’t know when this will happen with a three-drive setup and that’s something you’d have to consider with any workflow involving DPX, regardless of PP.

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[Frank Gothmann]

Premiere handles DPX just fine, simple import without any rendering also on slower machines. About your internal raid w. 3 drives: 1 stream should be ok, not too sure about more. It’s not ideal. I am only using external Raid arrays with more drives.

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[Frank Gothmann]

Some of the main issues I have with CS5.5, adressed in CS6

– VideoIO is clunky, buggy. CS6 doesn’t just fix any bugs, it’s a different architecture for IO so you’re also not just limited to BM or AJA timelines.
– Audio handling and export was poor; stereo, mono or 5.1 only. No way to export stems or, say, 8-channel audio – all adressed.
– Poor trim-tools – addressed
– Interface make-over badly needed – adressed

I suggest you take a look at this series of videos. It’s like a one-by-one checklist of issues and most common wish lists that seem resolved/fulfilled.
https://www.video2brain.com/en/products-321.htm

On a general note, I tip my hat to Adobe. It’s a very, very substantial update that should put Premiere firmly on the map for a lot of FC users.

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There is a lot in Premiere CS5.5 that’s driving me up the wall and makes it hardly usable in my workflow. Pointing those things out now seems of not much since virtually all of these things seem adressed in CS6, at least on paper. If it does what is says it does it’s golden. So, my suggestion would be to hold out a few more weeks until CS6 is in the open.

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I am extremely happy with the CS6 anouncement. Seems like 90 per cent of my wish list has been ticked ok.
If it works solid I’ll jumping between Edius, PP and MC depending on the job.
Smoke looks amazing but I am not buying into Mac only software anymore (I know there used to be a Linux version-is it still there btw, cannot find anything on the Autodesk site- but in any case the NLE feature set there would not be the same).

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