[Gary Huff]

[Tom Daigon]You comment reflects the limits of your experience.

Hey, Tom, thanks for the condescension. Appreciate it.

[Tom Daigon]One of the many requirements of a good editor is organization. That means files are organized into a variety of folders for quick reference and access during the creative process. Dumping all the files into one folder is a sure sign your an amateur or someone who hasnt had to work in a professional environment where other editors need to work on the same project you are or are sent out for color correction,etc.

Ah, so your condescension stems from the fact that you made an assumption as to what I meant. Nice of you to immediately jump in with both feet without asking any clarifying questions.

As I originally wrote:
“if everything is kept together under a main project folder”

Which is what you describe here:

I have many folders (clips (folder by scene or day of shoot) / audio/b roll/graphics/ animation / Mocha tracking / After effects / )that are all under one Project folder,

And I’ve only ever had to find one file and then Premiere does the rest. Granted, it used to be more frustrating, but CS5.5 has yet to cause me to jump through any hoops.

It sounds like working on one of your projects by another editor would leave a lot to be desired 😀

Please show your attitude the door next time.

[Gary Huff]

What have you described in no way accounts for CPU utilization by Premiere. Altering Page File sizes like you have can also make Windows unstable.

[Gary Huff]

Well that’s the deal isn’t it? All these people touting professional uses for consumer gadgets don’t go out and practice what they preach.

“Oh, I use an iPhone here and there when there’s not other option for the footage I want to use.”

There is no reason why you can’t shot an entire project using an iPhone and editing it on iMovie on the iPad…except for the fact that it won’t look or sound that great. But I thought “just good enough” was the mantra here? YouTube taught us that, hasn’t it? It just has to be “good enough”, “content is what matters” yadda yadda yadda. So why don’t people shoot with the iPhone as their “A” cam? Sure it doesn’t have highlights, lots of jello, not much in the way of manual controls, but so what? Isn’t it good enough? Why aren’t more people who make their money from editing/shooting/ect. editing projects on iMovie on the iPad? Sure it can’t do that much, but can’t it get you to “good enough”?

[Gary Huff]

[Jeremy Garchow]I don’t think tracks are problem. I don’t think Apple sees tracks as a problem. I do think they see a different way to do things that eventually will be better. Yes, better.

How exactly? How will it be better? How will it be faster?

[Gary Huff]

Why do you think that the audio should be coming in as Dolby Digital 5.1? LPCM is lossless stereo audio, and while there is a Dolby Digital record option, it is also 2.0 and not 5.1.

[Gary Huff]

[Jeremy Garchow]The control key solved that. And to be fair, their latest “two button” mouse still only has one “button”.

The control key was a completely asinine solution to an incredibly simple “problem.”

And no matter how you slice it, Magic Mouse does have two buttons because I use that all the time. Throw all the semantics out you want.

[Gary Huff]

[Marvin Holdman]I’m sure Craig is right when he mentions Apple’s primary goal is to sell hardware. It would appear they might be trading greed for functionality in this case though.

But what kind of hardware? I’m not convinced that you can say, with any certainty, that Apple will sell anything other than iOS devices within the next five to eight years, nor would I suspect that iOS would, at that moment in time, be able to fill the gap that pulling the traditional computing platform would cause.

[Gary Huff]

[Chris Harlan]FWIW, I agree with you about the iPhone and maybe the iPad, but a little Macbook air for doing sellects in a coffee shop by the beach? I could take that now and then.

No disagreement there. But I think those who are touting iPad video editing would probably end up doing it a handful of times for the novelty of it, then never touch it again.

[Gary Huff]

Great, Steve! So are you shooting on an iPhone 4 yet as your primary camera?

[Gary Huff]

[Andy Neil][E]diting while waiting in line at the ATM or whatever might make my head explode.

Yeah, I don’t understand this whole fascination with “editing on the go” like an iPad or an iPhone would bring. I can already edit on the go on my laptop. Why do I need another level of being able to work?