Martti Ekstrand
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[John Pale] “My offset is set to 0. Its dead on.”
Ditto.
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[Dennis Radeke] “I understand I can get a Mercedes-Benz a lot cheaper in Germany than in the US – go figure. ;-)”
Well, that’s because that M-B is a huge hunk of steel, leather and plastic that needs to be shipped over the pond. For a downloaded product it doesn’t make sense at all.
Most application makers I’m buying from have a very similar pricing across the globe for downloads with Adobe being a beacon of darkness in this regard. Don’t try to put the blame on various VAT rates as here in Sweden the production bundle is roughly 60% more expensive before the VAT is added. When the 50% FCP switcher rebate was going on it made the cost of purchase here about the same as the US normal price. I know of several friends who buys pre-paid US credit cards to get around this.
So Adobe’s international pricing for downloads is ass-inine, plain and simple.
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Premiere Pro CS5.5 has sofar handled any codec I’ve thrown in, including .vob files straight from DVD and bare P2 / AVCHD files outside of their traditional file hierachy. And here comes the kicker – without any transcoding, just real-time playback without any crap starting in the background or filling up the drive with extra media. It’s not until I render out a final edit in either PPro or AE that transcoding comes into play.
The real hidden gem in the PPro / AE combo is that I can cut and paste clips from the former’s sequences to the latter’s compositions – no export steps needed!
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I can’t see a iMac as a reliable option for me with long workdays of editing and rendering. My brother is on his third iMac for music production (with outboard Firewire soundcards), on both previous ones the motherboard died from heat exhaustion after a couple of months of instability. The enclosure is just too tight for sufficient cooling.
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What really kills the MacPro for me is the beef between Apple and nVidia with the result that CUDA enabled video cards are not a really feasible option. Having seen how a mid-range gaming PC just shines with Premiere Pro, running circles around my MacPro (with a ATI card) has really forced me to for the first time ever to consider buying a Windows box next time I upgrade. Sure, it’s not a ‘workstation’ class computer but that definition looks like it’s becoming more and more irrelevant.
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Then there’s Gareth Edwards who edited, colour corrected and made most of the VFX of his debut feature “Monsters” with Premiere Pro and After Effects.
https://tv.adobe.com/watch/customer-stories-video-film-and-audio/monsters/
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I would not trust a third party solution with (for me) such a vital function.
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Well, unless they fix a decent import/translator of FCP projects, FCPX will never be a viable option for me. Got too many clients with jobs that are re-worked/used on a regular basis.
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I’m even more convinced to move to Linux via Win7 now.
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So basically what you are saying is that ‘non consumer’ users should switch to Linux asap.
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