George Loch
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I think that you could get by with FCP for the job but, I wouldn’t want to do it there. If it were me, I would either use Motion or AE for this. The Motion advantage is the integration with FCP so you could import your Motion project and palce it on the FCP timeline and if you tweaked anything in the animation it will be automatically updated in the edit. That is a significant timesaver. If you want to go AE, then I would dummy up some AT movies to use as placeholders for each animation and then replace them in the file system so they are updated in the edit. Not as elegant as the Motion workflow but it would work.
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Here is my .002: focus and foundation are critical.
First, a post house, especially a large one, has a lot of needs and you don’t want to take a shotgun approach. You want to find the area of expertise you want to participate in and then focus on developing in that area. What you don’t want to do is focus on tools – they come and can be learned easily. What takes more time and work is fundamentals like understanding color, composition and basic design concepts. If you want to be an editor, then you will want to spend time understanding the structure of stories, cinematography, and audio. So, pick your direction and find out everything you can about it.
As far as school goes. I see it serving two important functions. First, you get time. Time to develop and explore your skills. This is really important and school is a good place to do it but don’t limit yourself to just what they assign you. There are always other projects going on and get yourself involved in those as much as time will allow you. Other student projects, indie films, etc..they seem to collect on campuses. This leads me to the other important function: contacts. This can’t be overstated how important the contacts you make are in this business and school is a great place to make them too. Not only with other students and faculty but they tend to know other people. Some schools are well-connected in the industry and will help you make important contacts. Take a school like Art Center in Pasadena, CA. They can hook you up with excellent internship opportunities if post-production with an art slant is your direction. Yep, they cost an arm and a leg but, the investment is worth it when you get a real ‘leg up’ right from the beginning.
So, don’t discount the value of the relationships you can make at school. They will be what makes or breaks your first many jobs.
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I think the issue with the displays is the total number of pixels that is being driven. With that in mind, the 30″ (2560 x 1600) should still be taxing the card less than a pair of 23″ monitors (1920 x 1200 x 2).
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First of all, I would not be making any major decisions until after NAB as all of the major NLEs will undoubtedly be updated or the intensions to do so will be announced (Adobe has shot a premptive strike).
The main two ‘challenges’ with Vegas for most experienced editors are the interface and the rendering times. I say experienced because most of us have been brainwashed into the source/record mode of thinking. I find that new users come to the Vegas gui without any problems so, I am now starting to admit to myself that the interface isn’t neccesarily flawed – just different.
The rendering speeds are just long. It’s a good quality render but it takes too long. They helped it a bit with version 6 and dual CPU/Core machines but, it’s still far too long in my opinion. Over-night renders are the norm.
Adobe brought PPro up to speed on a lot of things with 2.0 and the integration with the other Adobe tools are a major advantage to a workflow. You just have to weigh what”s most important for the work you do.
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Well, some of us actually watched the whole thing on QT afterwords…as embarassing as that is to admit 😛
…I am not a macophile…I am not a macophile…
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My question is, how much money are you losing by waiting 6 months and having workflow issues? Do you think your workflow will be impacted negatively by not having the third machine?
Honestly, I doubt the first gen. of Intel workstations will be so much faster as to make the quad obsolete. It will have a lot of useful cycles left in it for awhile.
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SJ mentioned at his Macworld presentation that they are planning to move the ENTIRE product line to Intel this year (by the end of ’06).
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Well, I wouldn’t fret too much. ATI was showing the X1800XT at Macworld so they will probably be offering that soon. That, I believe, will then push the 7800gt into better availabilty status. I do agree that the general lack of options is frustrating a times. OTOH, there are cases where TOO MANY options is also less than helpful. On my own PC workstations, I tend to get a H/W combo I like and stick with it.
BTW On the PC I am an avid Nvidia fan due to their superior OpenGL drivers. On the mac however, both ATI and Nvidia seem hampered by the OS X OpenGL drivers so there is no real difference at this point. The Quadro suffers the most because of this. That may change in the future.
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You have to get the 7800gt that is made for Apple. The problem is that I ahve not seen it for sale anywhere. It’s a BTO item on Apple’s site but that is the only place I have seen so far. I will let you know if I come across someone selling it.
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ACtually, it makes a big difference. The video card is driving yoru monitor and providing assistence to Motion. The higher the resolution on them onitor the more it’s tasking the video card. I would plan on getting the 7800GT.
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