[Rafael Metz]

Hi Alex,

don´t get me wrong – I´m not “not interested” in technical stuff 🙂
It´s like sometimes you really are at the state where you concentrate on your main skills and needs. And you know solutions that do exactly that. I´m using Avid since the mid 90´s and I know about the pros and cons of it. I´ve used FCP for many years, also knowing about the pros and cons, living with them.
After FCPX I went to PPro because it looks like a solution with high potential. Avid is (after for a long time having not) stepping up – concerning codecs, open to third party stuff, etc.
And I´m just in this “my day to day business want´s some real basic stuff like external monitoring, etc.”, I have that BMD HD card, I have that CUDA card, I have that MacPro and it just that it feels it could be faster for some reason (with my “oh, maybe the given resources could be shared differently”).
I have my clients sitting next to me – I cannot really say “ah, yes, we´re waiting for another update from Adobe so that it feels for you like the former FCP or a Media Composer” – even if I feel like this.

I have Mercury on for sure – but the BMD support is really lame…playback stops after a couple of seconds and you turn back to Mercury only.
As I said Adobe and BMD, AJA, Matrox need both work on it – but on the other hand we´re talking about basic features a NLE in the year 2011 should not be reason for a discussion at all.

Greetings
Rafael

[Rafael Metz]

I´m not a system architect, programmer, etc. I´m a professional working user and I want that stuff do what it is supposed to. So I don´t care where data needs to go through which processors etc. That is not my business.
I´m just saying – the competitors move forward; I see basics like external monitoring within PPro not solved, etc.
I´m just saying – Adobe, keep up. Soon.

[Rafael Metz]

Resources – CUDA, processor power.

It feels like FCP has used BMD&Co in a different way. And I think it´s about both parties – Adobe and BMD&Co. Right now external monitoring (which is basic stuff) does´nt work well. My BMD sequences stop after a couple of seconds of playback (latest driver installed).

No question about interaction between PPro and AE, etc. That´s fine.

[Rafael Metz]

Oh, I´m sorry – got that wrong!

I do loads of stuff that is projected on really large screens – we need to keep the quality during the workflow as high as possible and so there is the demand for uncompressed workflows (settings/options).

[Rafael Metz]

Yes, I know that export way you describe.

My thoughts are more a general thought. PPro offers a load of sequence settings but they are all about compressed formats (XDCam, AVC, DSLR settings, …to name a few).
There is nothing “uncompressed” like I´ve mentioned before. I know, I can build my own settings, but I wonder why there are no uncompressed presets at all.

[Rafael Metz]

Thank you, Todd!
I think this is some information that should be published stronger, because PPro appears like “only” working with compressed codecs, because of missing presets with codecs like ProRes or even “8bit uncompressed/10bit uncompressed”.
Hopefully in the near future the collaboration with Blackmagic and Aja cards will be better. Right now I see FCP7 is working better with my Decklink cards.

[Rafael Metz]

Hi Vince,

thank you for that hint on BM.
From another side I´ve now heard that BM slows (even enables…) the Cuda power from the NVidia card and that the Matrox is the only one to get good performance results.

In general:

there are a lot of compressed codecs supported within PPro (weird stuff like AVCHD, etc.) – but I´m looking for some good uncompressed workflow. Is there any suggestion?

Greetings
Rafael

[Rafael Metz]

The Sonnet Rad (R400Q) delivers about 200MBit/s r/w – enough for 8bit uncompressed material. And of course HD material.

[Rafael Metz]

Got it.
Thank you, Jeff!

[Rafael Metz]

Thank you, Ann!