[Jimmy Brunger]

Wow…Premiere could really do with that function. Does the FCP autorender function enable while you’re working (like Background Rendering in AE/Nucleo or Timemagic on Quantel)? That’d be awesome. Or is it just when you’re not working on the Mac for an amount of time?

Also, does FCP have a Batch Encode workflow for multiple timelines>MPEG? Premiere’s use of Aodbe Media Encoder means you have to do one at a time..which is VERY annoying!

Thanks.

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Gridiron Software (makers of Nucleo Pro) have aloads of tutorial/info movies on their site…

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Your boss sounds ace 😉 I’m struggling to just get a new dual proc and more RAM out of mine! I’d love to drop a grand on a GFX card just like that…

Have fun and let me know if you have any jobs going!

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Mocha should be fine with that card. My old GeForce 5200 runs it no probs. A better card would probably help interactivity in the canvas a bit though.

I use a HDD for OS/apps, one for project files and stills/audio, etc and then a 2 x 400GB RAID 0 for footage and renders. Tends to work pretty well. One thing I am guilty of is having a few non-pro apps installed aswell. I don’t edit that much so not too important, but its been pretty stable nevertheless.

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Hmm..true to an extent, but to be honest my clients aren’t really going to be bothered. They’re paying for my time and as long as I provide a good service for the money and an upto date machine that’s quick enough to get the work done on budget then they’ll be happy.

I mean – I work mostly in Adobe apps these days, apart from Mocha and the odd jaunt into Elastic Reality and Combustion and my clients are constantly amazed with what I can come up with (albeit on a very out of date PC, which is the main bottleneck in my workflow!) and not phased by the ‘it’s only a PC’ stigma. I worked on a Quantel Paintbox Express for 2 years when I started at our facility – something that cost 6 figures to buy in it’s day – and that piece of carp sums up to about a tenth of what I can do with Photoshop alone! I think my clients have realised the value of that.

Your showreel should speak for itself, but I agree..sometimes are only drawn by the shininess of your sports car! 😉 Silly really.

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[Jimmy Brunger]

I know it’s early days for Premiere, but I’m getting the full suite anyway, so we’ll see I guess. If PPro is totally unusable then I guess I’ll dive in for FCS nearer the time.

If anyone else has any experiences of PPro on Mac then please do share…

Thanks.

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Don’t know your exact situation Raymond, but I would hazard a guess that upgrading AE, PS, AI, etc would not cost much different to just upgrading to the full CS3 Production Premium?

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Is the Quadro card just for AE, or are you getting it mainly for 3D apps/Color or similar?

It’s just that AE will not really benefit in anything above a low/mid-range GFX card from what I hear.

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[Jimmy Brunger]

I’ll be going for a BMD HD Extreme, so hopefully that’ll work?

I’ve searched archives but I can’t really find anything about whether FCP makes better use of the multicores, GPU, specific integrated mac hardware, etc than Premiere. I know something about Apple RT effects that are native, but is there anything performance wise that FCP has over PPro?

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[Jimmy Brunger]

Hi Venture…a bit late with this suggestion, but only just come across this post searching archives…

One thing that could speed up your apps is to get a Raptor drive for your system drive 10,000rpm or 15k Cheetah and do what was suggested with the partitioning…though they are expensive and capacities are quite small compared with 7,200rpm drives. You might have to buy 4 x separate drives. That would mean 4 x OS installs though unfortunately.

Worth a look…

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