Lance Bachelder
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Yeah but the “new” 3 way CC still kinda sucks. It’s nice to have tracks etc. but you get spoiled in FCPX by just clicking on a clip and having all the color and other controls instantly available.
Lots of mixed feeling about Premiere CS6 – definitely not as excited as I was before NAB. I’ve also had Premiere crash as well as Speedgrade – this was on a Win7 machine. Haven’t spent much time yet on Mac version. Gonna give it some time…
Lance Bachelder
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Is it crashing at a certain point in the timeline or just crashes right away? I’ve had Vegas crash at the exact same spot and had to replace the files in the area of the crash and through trial and error got my rendering back again. Makes no sense at all as I can put the “corrupt” file in a new project and Vegas reads it fine. Seems like things just get corrupt sometimes and Vegas freaks out.
Lance Bachelder
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The biggest disappointment for me so far is the “new” 3-way color corrector. While slightly better than the previous version it’s still pretty bad. Why can’t anyone make a good 3-way CC like FCP7 or Colorista? This just means I will have to use 3rd party plug-ins for basic CC in PPro. Of course there is Speedgrade but it’s not always practical to leave an NLE during a session.
Lance Bachelder
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Actually saving my pennies for the Canon EOS 1D C 4K DSLR – this is the camera I’ve been waiting for!
Lance Bachelder
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The battery thing is a big deal to me. BMD picked a form factor and is running with it but it was a major complaint for a lot of folks I spoke with at NAB. Just about every camera under 10 grand uses a changeable battery and we’re used to carrying around several to get through the day. If I have to outfit a small camera with rails etc. just to attach an Anton Bauer BRICK then I lose the benefit of the original form factor.
It’s not a total deal breaker as you usually need extra power for external monitor etc. I know the camera will sell well regardless – it has the best specs on paper of any camera under 10 grand right now. At under 3 grand, it would be easy to have 2 or 3 on set and always have one on a charger…
Lance Bachelder
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Yes new trim tools are nice and basic day to day editing in much improved in CS6. Trimming, bins thumbnails, responsiveness etc are way better than previous versions. Still stand by my FCP7 statement…not saying I can’t be proved wrong and hope I am 🙂
Lance Bachelder
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It was a great NAB for cameras! Blackmagic looks intriguing and great price/specs but built-in 90 min. battery and lack of demo footage leaves lots of questions marks…
Saw the Sony FS700 in Sony 4K Theater – 240fps looks fantastic and $8,000 price is a bargain for this camera especially once they unlock the 4K port. Sony will sell a LOT of FS700’s!
Canon also had a 4K theater showing the C500 and EOS1D C footage. I thought they were both horribly overpriced until I saw the footage – these 2 cameras will be huge game changers and relative bargains when comparing to Red, Alexa and F65. I’m hoping the 1D C will be ready by the time I start my next feature – love this camera! I expect both these cameras to be used on every type of show in the future from commercials to tent-pole features.
Big losers were Panasonic and JVC which have both fallen way behind in the digital cinema camera realm with JVC going strictly for news shooters and Panasonic showing a “prototype” Varicam? Weird.
Nikon had a booth for the first time showing their HDMI DSLR’s but didn’t really know how to set up a booth with relatively tiny LCD’s here and there which really didn’t tell you what their cameras are capable of. But they do seem to be listening to users and wanting to make inroads into digital cinema…
Lance Bachelder
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I just played with some native XDCAM 422 50Mbit clips on the PC side in CS6 and they run much faster/smoother than 5.5. These are native .mxf’s and not re-wrapped to .mov.
Have not had a chance to try yet on Mac. I still think FCP7 in a better NLE than CS6. Even though it is an old 32bit app it’s just better software in my opinion and I don’t think I would force my facility to switch unless every Editor was 100% on board. Even with the new 3-way corrector in Premiere I’m still gonna have to run Colorista or Looks – the color tools are still sub-par and Speedgrade is just okay.
Lance Bachelder
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Of course they’re pushing their Quadro cards, they’re huge money makers, but they’re not the fastest cards available, the GeForce cards are the faster and always will be because gaming drives GPU technology, not Quadro users.
The GPU Tech Conf. is coming up where I’m sure we’ll hear more about CUDA 5 and Kepler – it’s new stuff just like Ivy-Bridge, we have to wait and see…
Lance Bachelder
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Think you may want to go back and re-read the Anandtech review – they say the compute test they did does NOT work with dual GPU cards. Look at every other test and the new 680 and 690 cards bury everything out there. CUDA is a separate technology from Fermi and Kepler. It all depends on the application and how it is optimized for a particular technology. For instance 3D Studio Max will take advantage of every CUDA core available even from mix & match Quadro’s and GeForce cards in the same workstation!
There is no evidence that an app like Premiere that can take advantage of CUDA technology will be better or worse using Kepler vs. Fermi – we won’t know until CS6 is released, Adobe certifies the new cards and folks actually put them to the test in real-world situations.
I’m thinking that nVidia wouldn’t spend 4 years developing Kepler as a upgrade to Fermi if they didn’t think it was a good thing?
From nVidia:
“CUDA 5 and the Kepler GPU architecture don’t just increase application performance; they enable a more powerful parallel programming model that expands the possibilities of GPU computing, and language features that improve programmer productivity.”
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California