Lance Bachelder
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Have you tried FCPX yet? Only asking because your workflow actually sounds ideal for FCPX. You could even ad a Smoke finishing station when it ships and not have to upgrade any hardware as they’re re-designed it from the ground up to run on every Mac from iMac to MacBook Pro.
If you haven’t already – I’d download the 30 day trial of Premiere and see if you even like it before pulling the trigger.
Lance Bachelder
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Yeah they did some pretty cool compositing and tracking n the demo today – better than anything I’ve ever seen in AE. And the CC tools rock and they simplicity of right-clicking to add effects is really nice
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California -
Yeah we have a Smoke keyboard on the system in the booth. I’d probably keep these “training wheels” and learn the Smoke way when the time comes…
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California -
Will do – they did mention the Avid Artist stuff but I’ll see about the other brands.
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California -
Lol! That was my thought when I was trying to figure out the Smoke keyboard – this is worse than Vegas! But is very smooth and fast…
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California -
Kool-aid’s delicious, but apparently not as strong as whatever you’re smoking…
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California -
Will do – the AJA booth is next to the Autodesk booth and I think we’ll have an Autodesk editor in the booth too – I’ll be getting as much info and time in the app as I can. All the footage is Pro RES HQ running on an iMac and super responsive.
As a sidenote – the app I really was looking forward to – CS6 – looks like a toy compared to Smoke – I didn’t get to spend much time with it but it was so anti-climactic after Smoke. I plan to play with CS6 as much as I can too.
Also Autodesk showed a FCPX to Smoke edit and it looked flawless – so FCPX/Smoke could be a cool workflow for facilities.
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California -
We attended the Smoke Intro here in Vegas this afternoon – very cool looking app. Very deep – user friendly on top with the ability to go really deep into true 3D compositing. We have a Smoke kiosk in the AJA booth so I spent a few minutes playing with it. Very responsive on an iMac! It’s a different beast for sure – no play/pause spacebar, no JKL, even undo/redo is in a new place – definitely need the Smoke keyboard to find my way around. Looks very promising and at $3495 a crazy powerful editing and finishing station.
Gonna play with it in the booth as much as I can this week 🙂
Demo in June and available this fall…
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California -
Lol – thanks for the report.
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California -
I get in tomorrow – Smoke then the hall then Red party – busy Sunday 🙂
See you there Bob.
Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California