Mitch Ives
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[Walter Soyka] “Wouldn’t it be nice to see the same kind of continuous, iterative development and improvement with FCPX?”
Yes it would, and this is where Adobe deserves some credit…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “That FCPX reveal stands as a historical software bombsite crater for the ages. Invested partners and production companies the world over were left picking out bits of apple shrapnel for years. Who are they kidding?”
Nice turn of phrase…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Do you need to use it on every clip, or just some clips?”
I get GH4 footage that is shot in low light from time to time, so I need to clean it up. Light… can I get some light on that footage, please?
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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That’s good news… I know Neat is considered the best. If it stays out of the way when I’m not using it, that’s good enough…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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[Bret Williams] “In either case, you’re probably better off exporting the cleaned up footage as a quicktime and bringing it back in so you never have to worry about it coming unrendered and slowing things down.”
Good advice Brett… thanks. In the end I’ll probably go with neat, but I’ll be watching it for performance issues…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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[Petros Kolyvas] “IE, do you mean it doesn’t require render time and create choppy playback… or simply having it installed slows down the app…”
I want to avoid having something installed that slows X down. This seems to be a complaint with Neat.
I also realize that using a plugin is an intensive process, but I’d like to find something that takes advantage of the new MacPro. Neat seems to be written to work with everything. Often times this means it isn’t optimized for anything. I’m not saying thats the case with Neat, but it’s often the case…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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[Oliver Peters] “The annoying part is that it seemed to get worse after the 10.1 update and Yosemite.”
I agree that we seem to haven taken a step backwards. Taking the good with the bad I suppose?
As to your question of plugins, I’m convinced that some plugins really slow down X. Like most add-ons, some are updated to take advantage of updates, where others are not. Anytime I get a new Mac it starts out fast and then begins to slow down after adding all the plugins. Unfortunately, I’ve never had the time to add them one at a time to determine the culprit.
Plugins are a mixed bag. On the one hand, they provide all the missing pieces in X. OTOH, if all plugins came from Apple, they’d be optimized…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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Its taking them longer than they thought to bring back tracks… yes that’s a joke…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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[Craig Seeman] “The hangup wouldn’t be so much editing but anything that’s on a Thunderbolt only drive.”
I think we will be awash in hubs in the next few months that will allow you to connect more things than you want. This connector is an industry standard and the next generation tech…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
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[Andrew Kimery] “Depends on what the meaning of the comparison is. If the meaning is to have a no holds bar showdown then I agree that all the machines should be maxed out. If budget is part of the comparison, say what’s the best machine for 3-4 grand, then having a maxed out iMac with a low-end MacPro makes sense.”
Andrew, I don’t disagree, but that’s a separate discussion. This piece seemed to be all about speed, and it seemed lopsided in it’s design. Once that issue is settled, then there is the “which gives the best bang for the buck” discussion.
But even then, as you say, and as Bill Clinton famously said: “it depends on what the meaning of is is”. If all you have is a single job this week, then you reach one conclusion. If OTOH, you have many, then Tom’s points in the post below yours comes into play. For myself I can tell you that a maxed out 8-core has penciled out quite well for us, in the greater amount of work it can process, and in the process acquire additional clients. Of course the onus is on us to find the additional work at that point.
In either event, both Lance and Tom are right that Apple needs to update the MacPro’s…
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill