I live in Las Vegas and we cut spots for the hotel shows. We use multiple layers of graphic effects (you know all that stuff that blinds you on the video billboards when you’re driving down the strip at night), sometimes 10 layers of HD video footage and 16 tracks of audio with effects.
My boss wants to move from FCP to Premiere Pro CS5 to increase turn around time and bring clients in during editing for real time viewing. A consultant convinced him we needed to switch platforms. My boss thinks we spend too much time converting footage to ProRes to accommodate FCP.
Consultants’ recommendation:
Mac Pro 8 core – 4 – Internal Hard Drives
64 gig OCW RAM
Nvidia Quadro 4800 for Mac
Two G-Tech es Pro 8 TB raid drive
Matrox MX02 LE w/MAX
Adobe Master Collection CS5
What are the Pros and Cons of this system? I’m just an editor not a system designer.