Robert Brown
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[Craig Seeman] “I can’t wait to see Jonathan Ive’s small and cute MacPro replacement.”
It’s already out, the Mac Mini. I have no idea what they are going to do and don’t really care but to me it seems they’re done with the big heavy stuff.
Robert Brown
Editor/VFX/Colorist – FCP, Smoke, Quantel Pablo, After Effects, 3DS MAX, Premiere Prohttps://vimeo.com/user3987510/videos
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[Tim Wilson] “BTW, here’s Apple’s 1999 Supercomputer commercial:”
This really is a humorous business when you can look back at the old adds. But personally I also think the Mac Pro is done. Even though I hope my 12 core is not done for a while. To me it seems the Mac Pro is everything Apple isn’t anymore. I think they must cringe that they’re still selling them. They’re all about small and cute these days.
Robert Brown
Editor/VFX/Colorist – FCP, Smoke, Quantel Pablo, After Effects, 3DS MAX, Premiere Prohttps://vimeo.com/user3987510/videos
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[Tim Wilson] “Just about anything related to industry topography and the variety of products and technologies that comprise the lay of the land is all fair game. “
Can we talk about the Sony RM 440? That was the thing back in 1981.
Robert Brown
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I’d agree with that. I’d hate to see this turn into the FCPX vs PPRO 6 forum which it has been lately to some degree. It does seem like FCP 7 is dead so “now what” is the central question. Also most of the options are very affordable so there is no real need to try to find THE one solution. Some will excel where others will fail. No bigey.
Robert Brown
Editor/VFX/Colorist – FCP, Smoke, Quantel Pablo, After Effects, 3DS MAX, Premiere Prohttps://vimeo.com/user3987510/videos
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Who cares? use what you like.
Robert Brown
Editor/VFX/Colorist – FCP, Smoke, Quantel Pablo, After Effects, 3DS MAX, Premiere Prohttps://vimeo.com/user3987510/videos
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This whole NLE thing the last few months has been like watching a horse race. But I will add that a project that was pretty much unusable in CS 5.5 worked pretty good. The CC makes a lot more sense too. I’ve really only spent a few minutes on it though.
Robert Brown
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I loaded a project from 5.5 with MTS last night and it was fine. I’ll see if I can repeat the problem. Off the bat 6.0 does seem better.
Robert Brown
Editor/VFX/Colorist – FCP, Smoke, Quantel Pablo, After Effects, 3DS MAX, Premiere Prohttps://vimeo.com/user3987510/videos
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[David Jahns] “Thanks for the clarification, Todd.
I totally understand your situation of SG being a recent acquisition, not fully integrated yet, etc.
Just a couple of notes to add…
SDI monitoring through KONA/BM etc on MAC – this is VERY important for a facility currently using FC Studio and using Color for Grading with client sessions. If SpeedGrade worked with KONA, I’d be much more likely to stay in the CS 6 suite for finishing. As it is, I’m more likely to swap my KONA card for a Blackmagic card, simply to be able to use Resolve for grading & output to a broadcast monitor.
If I was already using a Windows system, I’d be stoked about the NVIDIA solution. As it is, I was stoked about Transmit. (Still am for PP and AE.)
As far as the round-trip workflow – again, I understand it’s a work in progress. But the “stable/hard to break” short form workflow – that could also be interpreted as “rigid and inflexible”.
One of the things that is nice about the Color & Resolve XML roundtrip is that you can grade each shot and render discreet clips with handles. This can be quite helpful when further changes come up. The concept of “locking picture” seems to be disappearing in my corner of the world (broadcast advertising). Changes happen right up until the last minute, so it’s helpful to grade the footage, and send it back to the NLE, and if slight tweaks need to be made to the edit, they can do it with graded footage, and you don’t have to go back in to grading to add a few frames to a shot.
In this case, maybe the EDL workflow would be better for me? But again, until I can output from my Mac to a monitor, I doubt SpeedGrade will fit into our finish pipeline.
Thanks for all of the info!
David Jahns
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Joint Editorial
Portland, OR“
What he said.
Robert Brown
Editor/VFX/Colorist – FCP, Smoke, Quantel Pablo, After Effects, 3DS MAX, Premiere Prohttps://vimeo.com/user3987510/videos
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Just curious are you with Adobe? I can email a link I guess if you give me an address.
Robert Brown
Editor/VFX/Colorist – FCP, Smoke, Quantel Pablo, After Effects, 3DS MAX, Premiere Prohttps://vimeo.com/user3987510/videos
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It’s like Pro Wrestling. You only succeed if people love you OR hate you. Indifference is death.
But there are good posters and a lot of topics discussed so it’s a good thread to keep up on.
Robert Brown
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