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We have Continuum Complete v4.
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I’ve got a lot of plug-ins but really like working with “Sapphire” and “Boris”. Particularly good for commercial and corporate work to simply add a finishing touch.
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I agree. I don’t think its fair to flame Adobe software when you are using the Storm card that was superseded by its manufacturer almost a year ago. Canopus don’t support their own card, why should Adobe?
Having said that, Adobe does need to pay attention to some of the repetitive problems highlighted in this forum. Personally, I really like PP v2 and have just finished two 1 hour doco’s in HDV, used my great array of plug-ins, had no crashes and only suffer from caffine overload.Redgum Television Productions
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From our tests we have determined that Prem Pro2 needs about half a Khz more power than PP1.5 to achieve the same performance. So if you had a 2.8 Mhz CPU you now need a 3.4 Mhz CPU. This is not science simply extensive trials carried out over a few weeks on the one machine with different processors. This is not bad, simply progress. In most areas PP2 is much better.
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If you downconvert directly from the camera (by changing the camera settings) from HDV to DV you can tell the camera to either make a widescreen DV or 4:3 DV. If you choose widescreen then make sure you open a widescreen project in Prem Pro. If you convert to 4:3 in the camera, then choose a 4:3 project with Prem Pro. Either way you won’t get black bars. It only gets confusing when you try to mix 16:9 and 4:3 in the one timeline (project)
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What you are looking for is a Videotec Universal Video Converter VT3C. This small but efficient piece of hardware allows you to project film or slides in one side through a system of mirrors on to an internal screen. With your video camera you tape the the mirrored image. Your film projector sits about 12″ from this telecine unit and your video camera is flush against the unit.
The result is superb (as good as your projector and camera)and with trial and error you can avoid sync problems (film to video) particularly in PAL countries.
Where you get one from I’m not sure because its about 20 years since they were manufactured. I got mine from the local amatuer video club and so far its generated about $20k in work. Broadcast quality – well you need to do that externally through a facilities house. For the right price I’ll ship it over to you!Redgum Television Productions
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Tim siad…
“If it doesn’t work for you…that’s legitimate. Proclaiming a company’s doom because they don’t make the product you personally want for your particular workflow…that’s probably a stretch.”In that context you’re right Tim but I don’t think the word “doom” is correct. Acquisitions/takeovers/buyouts are a fact of life and almost a certainty in the corporate life cycle. Those companies that pick up quickly on client needs are the ones that prosper and you only need to look through the top 500 international corporations to see that. Successful companies are those that recognise a market early and design or acquire the appropriate assets to capture that trend. Conversley, an organisation that fails to recognise a specific market, particularly through its own database, becomes vunerable or redundant.
My gut feeling from the response to Adobe’s recent upgrade probably is more toward disappointment. Users have an expectation that some of their needs will be met. I expect many users will feel they have been hoodwinked by Adobe in the sense that many of the so called features are cosmetic plus the debacle over packaging and pricing was a little unkind or unprofessional.
Management at Adobe should be rubbing their hands together with glee to the responses from users on this website. A very inexpensive way to gauge client feedback. They’re just lucky this isn’t a shareholders forum or some very senior staff may well be looking for alternative occupations.
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There are three recognised markets, broadcast, professional and consumer. Pro-sumer is a marketing terminology coined to double dip the upper end of the consumer market. The broadcast market is the principle industry market and the most profitable. We had one particular Asian project in 1998/99 building two studios that together consumed $129 million in equipment. Hard to find any retail chain worldwide who would exceed this per annum.
It’s also hard to compare one part of the industry with the other as by nature they service entirely different clients with different products.This was very evident ten years ago with say BVU recorders for the broadcast market and VHS for the consumer. That still happens, Digibeta vs DV. The common denominator is R&D. Develop a new technology like HDV and try it on the consumer market. The consumer market is less challenging and has more disposable income. If it doesn’t work, dump it. If it does then just watch it flourish in broadcast.
I think Adobe simply lacks a good business plan and a clear line of deliniation between techheads and marketers. It won’t be the first or last company to suffer this problem. A recent example of this would be Canopus who were technically adept but hopeless in marketing. Grass Valley realised this and gobbled them up. Maybe Adobe will suffer the same fate, is Apple watching?Redgum Television Productions
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Baz – “Features rushed” refers more to a marketing ploy by Adobe. Sort of “How can we sell this product?” And I totally agree with your premise that this release was a catch-up. That would be fine if it wasn’t price and package related.
I mainly deal with the US cable market and free to air in Oz plus a bit out of Asia (doco’s) and providing the content is exciting can get away with VHS bumped up to Digibeta. (well almost) Shoot and edit HDV and deliver on Digibeta except in the US who prefer DVCAMRedgum Television Productions
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Yeah, but it’s not fair that I got her twice!
After playing with the demo the urge has diminished. Got a sneaking feeling something else big is going to happen at NAB. Adobe are pushing too hard and everything looks rushed. Features aren’t features really and the HDV thing is a packet of bulldust. What a retrograde step. You also prbably noticed that V2 has been designed out of dual screens. Made for single screen. I’m suspicious!Redgum Television Productions
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Brisbane, Australia