[Greg Janza]

It will be interesting to see how the new macs stack up. Currently, there are endless youtube videos showing PC’s dominating Macs in benchmark tests.

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[Greg Janza]

[Matt Hannon] “why you think its important to move all the cache and render files to a different ssd drive? I have about 2TB free on my new iMac.”

For maximum premiere efficiency a three drive system is the best setup: internal ssd drive for OS and Apps, secondary internal ssd for renders and cache and external raid for media. And as projects grow in size, the three drive system will only help increase the overall efficiency. But naturally, your media drive/raid needs to be fast as well.

And If you can get your system to 32gigs of ram you’ll be fine working with any type of media.

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[Greg Janza]

Oliver, yes that makes sense as well.

My transition to PC from Mac was made easier due to the fact that even though I was a long time mac user I never committed to the mac ecosystem. Instead, I adopted the google ecosystem basically from day 1 and therefore my migration to PC has been without the added workload that others might face.

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[Greg Janza]

Steve, the comment was not meant to be patronizing at all. I’m simply arguing that the emotional connection to Apple sometimes clouds thinking. I was a mac loyalist for more than 20 years and so I’m using my own experience as a reference point. And once I divorced myself from my own emotional attachment to the Apple brand I was able to objectively assess all of the options that were out there for an edit system.

It’s one thing if you’re a dedicated FCPX user but the loyalty to the Apple brand goes far beyond the simple logic of using Apple software.

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[Greg Janza]

[Bernard Newnham] “Being able to update at any point for much less money than buying a Mac would seem to be a no brainer”

I agree. However, as with so many other things in life, emotion often plays a larger role in decision making rather than objective analytical thought.

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[Greg Janza]

with a project that large you should think in terms of putting your renders and cache on another internal ssd drive and not your OS drive.

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[Greg Janza]

splitting the compositing up between two systems is definitely not an ideal workflow.

I’d recommend that only one of you do the actual compositing. That will allow for the best quality control. If the client wants to do it then just send the green screen shots straight.

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[Greg Janza]

[Shane Ross] “Because the shows I online, that are cut in FCX originally, BTW, need 8 deliverables. An HD Cut-To-Clock version with commercial blacks, texted. And then the same textless. Then an international SEAMLESS version that has 5 min of additional material, and no act breaks. Texted and textless. And then 4K versions of these, so four more. And the audio config on them is the same….10 channels of audio. And then we deliver separately the 32 different stems they require.”

Thanks for posting this Shane. It brings back memories for me for when I used to work on Discovery Channel shows. These tech specs sound very familiar and as I recall it was quite an exhausting process to create those masters.

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[Greg Janza]

[Rory Newman] “My wife spent 5 years at the LCC ending with an MA in documentary film, and loads of her friends from the BA at least had a skill as an FCP editor when looking for work. We’re much older than these mates who went straight from school so we’re not in the same career position. But they spend 3-4 years learning how to edit FCP7, and then just after they leave, it gets dumped and the whole industry moves to PP.”

Anyone who has learned the craft of editing on FCP7 should quite easily be able to learn any other NLE since they are all basically the same. The most important skill as a video professional is to be flexible. Being mad that FCP7 is long gone is wasted energy.

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[Greg Janza]

If you’re doing the keying on your end and sending your client a finished composited clip then there’s no need to export with alpha channel.

And if it looks perfect in your system, export in any format that’s convenient for the client.

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