[Jan Maitland]

Here’s a link to the videos on Adobe’s site:

https://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-prelude-cc/

[Jan Maitland]

No glitches so far and only once did see any hint of burn-in and that was after a very long day (and, truthfully, it might’ve been my imagination). When I went to shut down the laptop I noticed the outline of my bin window on my rMBP’s screen (I run edit window on the external display and project/bin on my laptop’s display). I had a minor cardiac episode when I saw that (I’ve read many of the same reports as you) however, after waiting a few minutes (long enough to pour a good bourbon and take a deep breath), I rebooted and the burn-in that I thought I’d seen was gone. In fact, I’d never seen (or noticed it) before or after that.

Also, I’ve edited off of USB3 drives as well and it was a fine experience. I noticed “a little” slow down when doing multi-layer stuff but I wrote that off as “to be expected” and it didn’t keep me from doing what I needed to do in any way. Also, nesting settled that problem quite nicely if memory serves.

All-in-all it’s been a great experience.

[Jan Maitland]

FWIW I’ve edited on the 15″ rMBP several times, each of those being :30/:60 TVC and all of them client (agency or director) supervised. I edit with PPRO exclusively (occasionally using AE and PS), using external thunderbolt drives and displays, and this computer was nothing short of brilliant. In fact, the rMBP with thunderbolt drives exceeds the performance of my office’s SAN array!

My setup when traveling is:

15″ retina MBP (16gb ram)
27″ Thunderbolt Display
HDMI out to client monitor (either in my editing suite or in my hotel room)
G-Tech 4TB thunderbolt drive
Wacom Intuous 5, Logic keyboard
Bose Companion 5 USB speakers (occasionally)
Starcase 27″ Cinema Display flight case

I can’t say enough good things about how this laptop has performed. I’m so impressed by it that I’ve bought two more for other editors in my shop who also edit on-location.

I hope this helps, best of luck with your decision.

[Jan Maitland]

The only way I know of to do this is the “snap to” shortcut that you can find within keyboard shortcuts. While I don’t do this myself, I have to imagine it won’t be as elegant as a simple key-mapped “go to”.

[Jan Maitland]

Hi Dustin

We’ve been using a service called Interdubs for almost a year now and we’re really happy with the service. It’s been rock-solid, support is good and the pricing is fair. Speaking of pricing, you will only be charged for media that is on their servers at the end of each month which is awesome because it allows you to delete old media (when possible) and save money.

Here’s a link to their site: https://www.interdubs.com

Best of luck

[Jan Maitland]

I don’t think you’ll be disappointed Alan and pre-congrats on your new MBP. I’ve done two jobs on the new 15″ retina MBP, using a 4TB Thunderbolt drive, and I’ve been very impressed with the performance. In many ways it outperforms my regular MacPro system with a Sonnet raid array.

I wasn’t aware of the hacks that are listed above and will be trying those right away.

[Jan Maitland]

join.me looks very promising. Thanks very much Alex!

[Jan Maitland]

FWIW I followed the link that Mike shared (thanks for that!) and Premiere is up and running, with CUDA acceleration, on Mountain Lion. Of course, this also includes the AJA update as well.

Also noteworthy is that Mountain Lion, in general, feels really fast.

[Jan Maitland]

our workaround for this has been to keep a 4:3 grid as a PNG file on our systems. It’ll key over your video layers w/o needing to be rendered and it has the added benefit of being able to be seen by clients on their dedicated monitor (useful for those times when they just can’t believe how much their titles are cutting into the footage).

[Jan Maitland]

Congratulations Tom!

I’m looking forward to hearing/reading how it performs you.