Lance Bachelder
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Agree – but just silly when a thousand people go nuts for something that has existed in other NLE’s for years – like Dynamic Trimming which has been in Media Composer since the 90’s… I guess if all you’ve ever used is Premiere it’s a big deal and Adobe has added a lot to like in CS6.
Lance Bachelder
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Act of Valor was cut on Media Composer once they brought in a high-end Editor. Premiere was used heavily in the show for sure including final conform/online from the Avid.
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Maybe the folks from Monsters, Social Network, Hugo, Act of Valor and Girl with the Dragon Tattoo were all unavailable?
But nine of these shows was “edited” in Premiere, it was just used in the workflow – big difference.
I will say at the Supermeet last night there was a LOT of enthusiasm for both Smoke and Premiere. Sad that when the Adobe guy showed that now when you drop a clip on a new sequence it shows a dialog box almost exactly like FCP7 asking if you want to conform the seq to the media etc. and the crowd went nuts like this was new – kinda reminded of an old Apple NAB presentation. I didn’t stick around for the FCPX presentation so no idea what kind of reaction it got.
While Macs and Thunderbolt are big talk at NAB, not much FCPX talk. It’s here and there at some booths but nothing like the presence legacy used to
have. Seems like the biggest loser this year is Avid – Smoke just completely killed the Symphony announcement. Apple is the big winner without even being here – with Smoke, OpenCL in CS6, Thunderbolt and FCPX no one I’m talking to is switching platforms because they stopped using legacy FCP.Lance Bachelder
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lmao!
Lance Bachelder
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Yeah me too! Got to actually touch it at the BMD mega-booth – looks bizarre but so simple and smart. They have a cool little two handed bracket for like $299 extra – this camera has to have every other camera manufacturer scratching their heads in a bit of a panic including Red – 2.5k is the new 6k Jannard!
Lance Bachelder
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whoops – thanks for the link – I’d seen another one just a few minutes ago with just the clips – no pics of the actual rig. This is crazy! Crazy good…
Lance Bachelder
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I just watched those! Is this real or a hoax? This would really be game changing…
Lance Bachelder
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Sounds like you’ve already answered your own original post. Obviously Adobe is available now and Smoke won’t be here for months. I would think a year from now, with an affordable high-end product like Smoke, the trained freelancer pool will start to change and we’ll all see if there are real advantages over other workflows…
Lance Bachelder
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Depends – the main purpose of the new Smoke is to completely eliminate the need for “Editors” to round trip. I’ve only spent about 15 min on the new version but I already like it more than Premiere/AE workflow, which I have used off and on since Premiere Pro 1.
Lance Bachelder
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Yeah still kinda torn here. I was planning to build a killer Win 7 workstation for CS6 and still may do so but will play with it as much as I can this week at NAB and see if I really like it. The new Smoke may be enough to keep me 100% in the Mac world along with FCPX.
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California