Lance Bachelder
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Looks great! But why don’t you ask over at the Premiere forum?
Lance Bachelder
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Starbucks secret at the South Hall. Usually 25 to 50 folks in line at Starbucks – but if you’re just drinking Starbucks drip and not specialty drinks, go inside the food court!!! They have Starbucks drip and NO lines!!! And they have tons of flavored creamers for free…
Lance Bachelder
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I just picked up the new Drobo 5D case which has both Thunderbolt and USB 3 ports. Easy way to add fast storage to Mac Pro with this card… hey and the Drobo 5D actually ships beefy Thunderbolt and USB 3 cables in the box!
Lance Bachelder
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I couldn’t hold out any longer – my tired old Mac Pro was starting to scare me. Just picked up the 27″ iMac and it’s awesome!
While there are huge 3 to 4 week lead times on BTO 27″ iMacs, Apple is quietly stocking a top of the line iMac in the Apple stores – it has 3.4Ghz CPU, 1TB Fusion drive and GTX680 w/2GB VRAM for $2599 which is exactly the model I was about to wait weeks for.
Waiting on 32GB memory kit from OWC and added a new Drobo 5D Thunderbolt raid with 15TB. Can’t believe the speed – 16 sec. boot, great FCPX performance etc.
Lance Bachelder
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It’s a non-issue on PC’s as there are dozens of CUDA enabled cards to choose from and it’s as easy as heading down to Frys or Best Buy (at least here in the US) and picking up the right card for a few hundred bucks. Not quite so easy with the Mac.
Lance Bachelder
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Well if you’re going to switch it’s painless and free – if you already have the Adobe Suite because you use Photoshop and After Effects you just click that icon you refused to even look at before X was released and open Premiere…
Lance Bachelder
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Shameful! I was wondering how Pixel folks were able to release plug-ins at such a furious pace. There marketing is impressive and I was happy to see more FCPX plugs hitting the market… but sadly, now we know the rest of the story. (stole that from Paul Harvey)
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
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Yes.
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Lance Bachelder
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It’s a dilemma for sure – you’re not just learning software, you need to tell a story effectively and at a high level. Learning Vegas for instance (which I love) and becoming a great Vegas Editor could be a problem if your demo reel lands you an Avid gig and you’ve never touched the NLE! You’re in for a major shock.
I think a class that gave students hands-on experience with a variety of NLE’s and their strengths and weaknesses might be cool as long as they had ample time to actually learn the program well enough to run it in a paid situation.
The truth is it takes a long time to really learn any NLE and all its ins and outs, fretboard shortcuts etc to the point where you’re just being creative and not thinking about the software and able to work effectively with a client breathing over your shoulder.
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
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Everyone goes to film school for different reasons – some want to write, others direct, some to become cinematographers and some to edit etc.
As an all-around program for aspiring filmmakers I really love FCPX as it would allow students to to do polished work on picture and sound in one app. I have a strong feeling that FCPX will become the NLE of choice for young filmmakers everywhere in the next couple of years just like FCP7 was.
For those that aspire to become Editors, I agree it’s important to learn the NLE’s that will get them work when they finish school – whether that’s MC, Premiere, FCPX or some other program. Final year editing majors could easily spend a semester with Avid and another with Adobe.
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California