Neil Goodman
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[Steve Connor] “[Shane Ross] “When you have 50 edit bays…upgrading machines, and then typically the shared storage as the new machines won’t mesh with the older servers…can be a HUGE expense. Hundreds of thousands of dollars. So yeah, it might take a while to build up the capital to afford to do that. It’s easier when you are a sole operator, or have a handful of machines.
”Yes but it’s nearly EIGHT YEARS! If they hadn’t written off the costs and covered the financing years ago then that IS nuts!
Assuming of course that they got them in 2010 :)”
Really has naught to do with cost – but expandability and upgrades which is lacking in Apple’s current hardware run. For example, we all have Aja cards, need a place to stick those cards and our TD wont invest in anything without a roadmap for upgrades and expandability so we can future proof.
Hopefully the yet to be announced MPro of the future can fix these issues.
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[Bill Davis] “Their business model is doing 2018 work on 2010 hardware?
That just seems kinda nuts.
The hardware advances in speed and efficiency I’ve seen in the last 8 years have been nothing short of immense. I remember how my own FCP X work took a huge efficiency leap when I revved my hardware in late 2015.
You have my sympathy, Neil.
That’s got to be terribly frustrating day to day.”
Appreciate the sympathy Bill – its not as bad as it sounds and somehow we still manage to push out award winning Trailers,TV spots and commercials everyday and under intense deadlines.
Want to know the reason why they wont upgrade the machines?
Because it is an Apple ecosystem and they havent come out with anything expandable since then!
This company wont spend all that money on 50 plus bays unless there is a roadmap for upgrade and expansion and our tech director knew the trashcans were a deadend before they came out. So here we are stuck with Cheesegraters. Ive tried to sing the gospel of the Imac and Imac Pro but no ones listening and Im just a lowly offline editor in a big pond.
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[Oliver Peters] “You might enlighten the crowd here how your set-up works (or doesn’t) with Premiere Pro. Shared storage? Media formats?”
Were hooked up to an ISIS using mostly prores proxy or prores LT/422 depending n the source. Sometimes lots of mixed formats. Sort of typical shortform workflow except we get a lot of random formats from clients.
Even with Proxy its flaky.
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[Paul Golden] “Have you updated your graphics card lately? Some of the new 4gb+ cards will make things quite a bit more zippy if you’re looking for a bit more life out your aging MacPro. FCPX is all about the GPU.
“Wish I could – Its my rig at work. 50 something bays all stuck in 2010.
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[Paul Golden] ” Premiere feels like FCP7.5 at this point.”
totally agree. Least fav of the big 3 but FCPX runs like poo on this cheesgrater, not that Premiere works any better.
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[Paul Golden] “Here’s the issue with Adobe: they write (or don’t re-write) software that can work on reasonably modest machines. Much of Adobe software (AE, Premiere) are resource hogs that are often grossly inefficient.”
This is true but have you ever tried FCPX on a cheesegrater MacPro? or a pre 2013 macbook pro? Not fun IMO.
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No diss on youtubers but the #1 reason I choose an NLE has nothing to do with a Share button. That might be the 500 reason on my list.
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[Bill Davis] “Ah,
Then the prior statement of yours….
“Hell, even Apple lives in the real world in that many of their own videos are being created by agencies that use Adobe and not FCPX.”
more accurately should have been:
“Hell, even Apple lives in the real world in that many of their own videos are being created by agencies that use *AVID* and not FCPX.”
A statement with a VERY different context and meaning.
And one that I never would question understanding how entrenched AVID still is in the top tier of the industry.”
I didnt make the statement to begin with, just pointing out alot of Apple content isnt made with Apple software and its easy to find out who cut where and on what.
How does that make it a VERY different context?
Apple content not using apple products is the same no matter which NLE you plug in there that’s not FCPX or Imovie, and its not far fetched at all that alot of agencies and post houses are on Premiere now including the one I work at. Before I got here it was all FCP 7 until about a year ago, and they chose Premiere to continue on, go figure.
Maybe if Apple played nice and marketed their apps better, with advertisements and tradeshows the misconception’s that follow X around at least Los Angleles would be diminished.
Hell – you do wy better marketing for Apple and X than Apple itself could ever hope to do. You should ask for a job.
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[Bill Davis] “Care to enlighten us as to which of “their own videos” have been edited presumably on Premiere Pro?
“Not sure about Premiere but
Planet of the apps entire show run cut on Avid’s at Propegate Productions. The Promotional spots, trailers and social pieces were done on Avids at Ignition Creative.
Same with Carpool Karaoke.
All the Apple Music and Beats One materials are cut on Avids as well.
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[Scott Witthaus] “Here’s the simple answer: Be better than everyone else, or at least be good enough to be chosen over your potential competition. We heard this same answer when FCP Legacy came out.
“Got to agree here, anyone can learn to push buttons, but you can’t learn style and finesse which is why I dont think AI will ever be a competitor in our field.