Greg Janza
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this should give you a step by step instruction on making custom presets.
It’s a bit of a cumbersome process overall but it does allow for customized settings including setting audio channels to match your original media.
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I’ll second that notion. The most annoying aspect of online tutorials is the intro bs which sometimes can go on for several minutes.
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It’s true that proxies only work if the proxy file matches the audio channels of the originating file. The process is a bit cumbersome but you can make custom ingest presets in Media Encoder for each type of raw file that you want to make.
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People are impassioned about their choices and that’s a good thing. Our main job as editors is to elicit emotional responses from those who view the stories we cut together. And so it’s fitting that the viewpoints on which equipment we prefer to use to create those stories would be equally filled with emotion.
Just to round out the discussion a bit. I’ve learned FCPX and I’ve done several projects with it and I also like it quite a bit. I also agree that it can be a tool that will increase an editor’s efficiency. In an ever-changing market, adaptability is key. However, most of my work is being created with Adobe Premiere.
Market forces usually dictate what software will be used. When Avid dominated the market, a large percentage of editors were Avid proficient. Then FCP came onto the scene, it cut dramatically into the Avid market and consequently we had FCP editors as the norm. So in the last several years Apple re-invented FCP and that coincided with alienating a sizable percentage of it’s professional user base. Seeing an opening in the market, Adobe jumped in and seriously beefed up it’s product line. So now we have a lot of editors who are committed to the Adobe cloud.
If any of the numbers released by Apple and Adobe are to be believed, Adobe has anywhere from a 2 to 1 to 10 to 1 dominance in the market. The actual numbers though are irrelevant.
The deciding factor for freelancers will usually be what systems they need to know in order to gain employment. And of course, it’ll vary from market to market.
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For me, the Apple FCPX debacle was a precursor to my abandonment of Apple.
I agree that for most of us veteran editors they lost us at Hello. Once bitten twice shy as the saying goes. The notion of using multiple NLE’s doesn’t make sense to me either. The depth and breadth of NLE’s these days requires users to dig in deep to master the tools and so once I committed to Premiere that was it.
It’s also helpful that the overall NLE market over the past five years has shifted dramatically towards Adobe. In the Bay Area, virtually every post house and freelance editor with an edit suite is using the Adobe Cloud.
And by being platform agnostic, Adobe then freed me up to think in terms of completely abandoning the Mac platform and instead switching to a PC. And that’s exactly what I did and quite happily there’s really nothing I miss about Apple.
So when I hear about the new and improved FCPX releases and now the increased sales, its all irrelevant until the day arrives when FCPX has made an actual dent into the professional marketplace.
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The TB3 upgrade will most likely require you to swap out your motherboard. Both Asus and gigabyte offer TB3 enabled mobos. You just need to find a mobo that is compatible with your chipset.
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matthew, the folks here are quite knowledgeable and we’re all better off for having them as regular contributors on this forum.
But at the same time, there are inexpensive options for a single system.
I’ve upgraded to TB3 on my pc by purchasing a gigabyte x99p-sli mobo and I’m using an OWC Thunderbay 4 with it for editing with an Akitio T3T Adapter.
I did all of this for less than $1300.
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if your pc is on the newer side TB3 is a (potentially) cheap and (relatively) easy add on.
Find a TB3 motherboard that is compatible with your cpu. Both Asus and Gigabyte make a variety of motherboards with TB3. And they have cpu compatibility lists with the tech specs.
After swapping out your motherboard find the drivers that go with your TB hard drives or raid and you’re up and running. And if you have TB2 drives you’ll need a TB3 to TB2 adapter.
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A follow up for others who may be interested in upgrading to TB3:
I purchased a gigabyte x99p-sli motherboard because it’s compatible with my cpu which is a i7 5820k.
I’m using an OWC Thunderbay 4 raid with the TB3 (with an Akitio T3T Adapter) and it works flawlessly. I also re-striped the thunderbay to raid10 because previously it was mac formatted.
The swapping out of the motherboard is a bit of a pain in the butt but well worth it to have TB3.
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I’d advocate that you give the Premiere Proxy option another try.
It took a bit of research since it wasn’t very intuitive, but eventually I figured out that you can customize proxy presets instead of just using the defaults. You have to build your custom ingest preset in Encoder and then export that preset out to your desktop or other location so that you can import it when prompted in your ingest settings in premiere. Once you have the proxies set correctly, it’s really a very simple process to create proxies on import.