[Greg Janza]

Is your 4k media H264? If so, that’s what’s tripping up your MBP.

You should never edit with H264 media because it’s too CPU intensive.

Transcode any H264 to ProRes or DNxHD and you’ll see a dramatic improvement in your workflow. And the Samsung T5 should be fine for working with 4k media as long as you’re connecting it via a TB3 input.

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[Greg Janza]

This has been stated repeatedly in this thread:

The only way to see a color accurate image from Premiere is with a fully calibrated external monitor connected through an i/o card.

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[Greg Janza]

[Bill Davis] “Basically, for me, unless you’re encoding that type of interpretative data, you’re really just settling for a shotgun to shoot at a bulls eye.”

We’ll agree to disagree.

I guess if you primarily do sizzle reel type pieces the need for transcripts would be far less but for any story driven piece with interviews, transcripts are the blueprint from which all content is analyzed and selected. Even the two minute corporate promos I work on are made much easier by using transcripts because there’s a tendency these days to over interview folks and so often a corporate exec is allowed to pontificate for 30-45 mins in raw form by the producer. And if you have half a dozen interviews the time needed to look at those interviews in real time goes up exponentially.

It’s also possible that fewer producers are providing transcripts to editors and so maybe some folks have gotten used to making selects from just watching the content but I’d argue that it’s an inefficient use of edit time.

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[Greg Janza]

[Bill Davis] “Why?”

Because transcripts save a TON of time in the edit. And when coupled with the plugin transcriptive which creates a transcript from a raw interview in about 5mins, the entire transcript text is matched to the interview/source timecode so you can search a word or phrase and that word or phrase is automatically now the source in point. Transcriptive continues where Avid script sync started.

[Bill Davis] “How many times have you gone to find a clip that LOOKED ideal on a transcript, only to find that it’s a total mess, as recorded. Weird pauses and intonations that even if you frankenbited, would STILL make for a choppy and ugly soundbite.”

All the time but I can just tab to every instance of a word in a timecode synced transcript and immediately find the good take.

[Bill Davis] “One POINT of X, is that using it’s qualitative tags, you can rely on transcripts much less (by choice) and instead have a system to tag and save the ACTUAL best clips as you audition them. That way you KNOW the context and usefulness of those actualities in a fashion that reading them will never convey.”

I have no need to tag if I can instantly search the entire transcript and with each search have an in-point set and edit it into my timeline.

[Bill Davis] ”
I think it’s time to look beyond the transcript. It’s pretty limited, when you think about it.”

If I was using a paper transcript that notion would be true but with today’s technology transcripts are even more powerful than in the past and I’d argue that the plugin transcriptive is the single best time-saving add-on I’ve ever used.

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[Greg Janza]

[Andrew Kimery] “(probably the same reason I insist on having interview transcripts to work with when I’m editing).”

I’m 100% with you. I’ve found out through these editor forums that some people don’t use transcripts when editing interviews and that is surprising. Transcripts make the editorial process so much easier that if I’m not provided transcripts I’ll just make them with the transcriptive plugin before I begin.

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[Greg Janza]

[Bill Davis] “Need to learn something about X? While the first dozen YouTube videos on that precise topic might be dreck, probably one of the next dozen (or thousand) will be OK.”

This holds true for Premiere as well. I can’t imagine needing to pay for online training on either NLE at this point.

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[Greg Janza]

I’d start with isolating codecs. If you work solely with pro-res or dnxhd media and then set your timeline previews to quicktime dnxhd do you have all of the same problems?

I’d create multiple sequences with isolated codecs and set your previews to quicktime dnxhd to see if there’s any differences.

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[Greg Janza]

[Oliver Peters] “Interesting about the iMacs. We are running 3 Retina iMacs and 3 iMac Pros. All with the Adobe toolset. Our graphics guy pushes After Effects really hard. No issues. Only occasionally the SAN volumes spontaneously dismount on some machines. But the Macs themselves are fine.”

As luck would have it, the engineer at this facility (which has a dozen edit suites) is swapping out the trashcans and older imacs with new fully decked out imac pros so in theory the instability issues should improve.

I’m working on one of the new imac pro’s today so it’s my first chance to put it through the paces.

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[Greg Janza]

[Joe Marler] “Apple cannot stand still on either performance or features, but they cannot sacrifice stability. “

An issue that might be slightly off-topic: I freelance at a number of post facilities that are Apple based and lately ( within the last year) each and every place I’ve worked has a variety of stability issues.

I’m working at facilities that have a multitude of trashcan macs or imacs and both are equally unstable. These facilities are running san systems as well as Adobe CC and not FCPX.

The trashcan macs have overheating issues which result in rendering problems. The imacs have multiple issues that often result in hard crashes.

I mention this because the facilities that I work at have full engineering support and so the systems are maintained as best as possible.

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[Greg Janza]

[Bill Davis] “Bob’s swatted at me, by name, maybe half a dozen times here.

I do the same thing once – and it’s of concern?”

In fairness to Bob, that Woody Allen joke is legendary and it’s hilarious.

Bill, if you’ve been in the video business for 30 years you should have a skin as thick as an alligator by now.

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