Robert Brown
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I use Carbon Copy Cloner sometimes. It will make a bootbable clone of your master. I believe it’s free too.
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[Gary Huff] “And how long will they be given to do so? Will this topic still be rolling along with the same arguments and rebuttals 6 months from now because FCPX is still essentially the same software? How about 12 months from now? How long will it take?”
Your point being? Mine was simply a response to somebody with confidence as to what Apple will do in the future that none of us has a clue what Apple will do in the future.
But in answer to your question they can take as long as they want because I no longer consider Apple a “pro apps” provider and will take my business elsewhere.
And BTW nobody is forcing you to read this thread.
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[Ben Scott] “Get over it
The software will get upgraded to what you are after in time”
I am over it. I’m learning Avid and Adobe.
But how are you so confident X will get upgraded to what people want? They haven’t been fixing a lot of what I needed them to fix for the 7 years I’ve been a user. Why would they start now?
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[David Lawrence] ”
The open timeline model has proven itself with over twenty years of refinement and success. The magnetic timeline is the result of Apple engineers and marketing people deciding they know better than me how I should do my job. It’s a pretty arrogant stance to take with a professional industry. I’d say the burden of proof is on Apple’s new model.”I’d say the open timeline goes back further than 20 years, a lot further. I think your analogy to written music was spot on. I think this is where the NLE timeline comes from. Time, space, notes or “media”, layers for instruments.
The advantage of open timelines or really computers themselves is that once the various pieces of the puzzle are loaded in, everything you have can be sculpted into your finished product, but also in any way you choose to go about it. You can also use empty space as a work bench just to keep various pieces or things you haven’t decided what to do with yet. I’m finding it hard to see why a new “paradigm” was needed.
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I picked up FCP faster than any other editor I’ve used. Of course there is some learning but as soon as I did a tutorial or 2 I was really into the way they laid it out.
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Cool! Zombies could make this even more interesting.
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If you can’t get anywhere I would suggest a fresh install of Snow Leopard and fresh install of CS5.5 on another drive or partition. You should be getting better than that. You don’t really need much of a RAID for DSLR files as they are pretty compressed. My files zip right in. PPro is not as zippy as FCP but something is wrong with those kinds of times.
As for Cuda I think Adobe is pretty clear about it. It makes things faster but it’s not make or break. But if you do decide to go with a Cuda board I’d recommend a GTX 285 from Ebay. Around $380 and very similar if not better performance than a Quaddro for less than half the cost.
The way to look at Premiere is editing software that is taking advantage of state of the art hardware so that means it’s a little more narrow as to what it works well on. But a year old 8 core is totally enough.
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[Chris Conlee] “Agreed wholeheartedly. I learned Avid by jumping into a small feature film editing gig, without ever having touched it. Believe me, I learned fast. I had a few days of dailies to cut on my own and then when the director first showed up and started asking for changes, whew! I had no idea what I was doing! Thankfully, back then, he was new to the NLE business as well and we muddled thru together. But by being in the hotseat, I realized the things I NEEDED to know and I went to the manual and called friends and did whatever I needed to do to figure those things out first. “
Yeah I’ve had a few “bathroom break” lifeline calls myself. It sux only knowing something halfway with paying clients but you do what you gotta do.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “I think it was, AE 4.1 running on the ICEboard”
Yeah I used to be into the Ice boards. Major pain in the ass but would blow other systems out of the water for some things and had a great plugin set. I few years ago I just ended up throwing it away. Such is life.
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Yeah Chris, my background isn’t too different. Started with I think a Sony RM 440 with 3/4″ – yikes – then my first real editor was a CMX 340 with 1″ then moved to LA and worked with GVG 3000/4000 K-Scope,
GVG 251, took an Avid class and did a couple of jobs but never got good at it.I Invested in some lesser know products just so I could play back un-compressed SD in real-time then I bought FCP in ’04 while at Fox Sports where I’ve worked for 15 years and got to do opens for the World Series year after year, and the Daytona 500, Super Bowl and on and on and on. I’ve probably cut 4000 pieces there of various lengths. I got to go the aircraft carrier USS Truman and edit for our Fox NFL PreGame show in 2000, and in 2009 I took my own FCP system for a similar show at Bagram Air base in Afghanistan. Supposedly they shot a missile at us when we took off. : O They missed.
Eventually I got them to send me to Smoke Level I and II courses about 4 years ago and that’s my system of choice, but not for off-line. I’ve done trailer and some feature work on Smoke for Laser Pacific, Company 3 etc.
Along the way I got into stereoscopic and have cut many pieces in that and learned the Quantel Pablo/SID and have worked on 3 feature films as a stereo specialist kind of guy but not the actual editor which is a world I’ve only barely touched but I got to work with Ang Lee and some pretty serious movie people.
I really have no idea where I’m headed at the moment. But yes for advice to a younger person, take classes and find people who are looking to cut stuff even if they don’t have any money. Of course use discretion and don’t work on a project you hate if you’re going to do it pro-bono but the few projects I did like that paid off huge.
But to sum it up, learning in this industry never stops.