Frank Gothmann
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The starting post said: “Adobe has essentially said they’re going to be discontinuing development of Flash”.
Mobile vs. desktop growth aside, it not eol on the desktop. -
They will no longer develop Flash player for mobile platforms. Not Flash per se. Flash player 12 is already in the works.
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I think it rather says that the people who are more productive and make more money more often use Macs now (and specifically, I assume, certain types of Macs like the Macbook Pro and Air plus, of course the obligatory iPhone and iPad). The question of the hen or the egg.
Not a surprising since Apple products have become hip lifestyle products which is also why you see them pop up in almost every blockbuster movie or tv show. It’s good stuff to show off a bit. Let’s be honest, we all know a Mac user or two who is annoying that way.
People who are successful and make money want to show their success and they can hardly do that with a 100 dollar Android from China or by driving a Toyota. But I doubt their success depends on that device.
I absolutely doubt there is any difference in productivity wether you are using After Effects, Cinema4D or MediaComposer on a Mac or a PC. Why should there be one, once you are in the app you’re in the app. -
I am actually very, very pleased with the feature anouncements of Media Composer 6. Its pretty much what I had hoped FCPX would be and beyond. I can use my AJA and BM cards, I have another robust codec to capture to and it’s all cross platform so I don’t have to worry about buying any new stuff should I decide to drop Apple completely for a new paradigm. I actually feel quite relieved as I know where I’ll head to and some people I have talked to this evening feel equally enthusiastic about MC6. So, not everything is grim.
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I said I wouldn’t post anymore on this but I cannot resist to add just this: read the comment and specs in your link and you know where you stand with regards to comparing it to a Xeon chip and an ARM challenging it plus what the purpose of that server is. You have no clue what you are talking about.
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An ARM chip in what is supposed to replace a Xeon Workstation. I won’t add anymore to this after this post because it is getting ridiculously silly now.
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It already does right now. You can use Qmaster to send jobs from After Effects or Nuke to a cluster.
But you need a second license of the Applications and all the plug-ins you are using. Plus you need some sort of shared storage where everything can render to. So if the current Macpros don’t sell because of price, your clustered solution would cost three times the amount at least.MVC encoding cannot be done under OSX at all. Under bootcamp, your cheapest option is 6000 dollars and cannot be clustered, 90 minutes take approx 20 hours to encode. Next stop: Cinevision which allows distributed processing at roughly 40.000 dollars starting point plus additional licenses. Then there’s Cinemacraft at 60.000 dollars.
Plus theres the whole 3D realm I cannot really comment on because it is not my field but given the prices of some high-end cuda cards I doubt anybody on that area is looking forward to your vision of future power computing. -
Your simply ingoring the fact again that only a handful of encoding options can be clustered. The rest cannot! Plus compressor isn’t everything. For a lot of jobs Compressor is unusable and other applications need ONE beefy machine with not clustering options at all.
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It really depends how you work and how your company is set up.
Since June several people we work with have gone back to Avid, the rest is holding out with FCP 7 but it is clear where the trend is going.
Among our clients, FCP X has a whopping adoption rate of zero per cent. So, if we are looking for a freelancer or hire a new guy we’d naturally be looking for someone with Avid experience. This is also the advise I’d give someone who wants to decide what NLE to learn if you want to work freelance. If you are a one man shop it may be different but it it always and avantage to be able to work with Avid. -
You can use them for burning our own discs but not for replication, they won’t pass Eclipse verification. You can find the relevant info on the Matrox website and also other websites dealing with Blu-ray encoders.