[Ron Pestes]

Yes, I am using one and it is great! I have the i7 2820q chip, 16 gig of RAM and the NVIDIA 3000m cuda card. Super fast, no problems with 3 layers of EX HD video. I have not tried more layers yet. I would highly recommend it. Blows my old MBP out of the water. One thing I forgot to mention is that when you dynamic link to AE and apply the Warp Stabilizer it crashes the program. After many phone calls to Dell support they found that you have to change a file name deep in Windows that has to do with the touch screen to fix it. Once I renamed it there were no more problems. I can’t remember the details though. Sorry.

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[Ron Pestes]

I only have my files on RAID 1. No other backup and I don’t see the reason to because the chance of both drives failing at the same time is to small to calculate. I edit from these drives and it saves an exact copy to the second RAID 1 drive as I go. I do not have a separate archive. When the drives are full of projects and raw media I get two new drives and do another RAID 1. A lot of people will disagree with me but their arguments have not conviced me to change. I keep all media etc. for each project in its own file so it is a complete self contained project. All DVD files, web ready files etc. go into the master file so I know where to find everything for each project.

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[Ron Pestes]

I edit with RAID 1 so I always have a backup of everything as I go. This includes project files, stills, original video etc.

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[Ron Pestes]

And about 45 minutes for a H.264 HD Youtube file export.

Again this was with a Dell M6600 i7 2820Q, 16 gig RAM, and NVIDIA 3000M card.

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[Ron Pestes]

OK, it took exactly 20 minutes to export a SD DVD file from a 1280X720/60 timeline with a two camera multicam shoot. I did a 1 pass highest quality setup for the 1 hour 20 min show.

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[Ron Pestes]

I jumped from Mac to PC late last year and am very glad I did. PP 5.5 is working great and learning a few new shortcuts was easy. You can set up the short cut preferences to be almost the same as FCP. I still have my MBP and FCP 7 but it is so slow all new projects are now done on my Dell M6600. Never going back to Mac. Also, I use Mac Drive all the time with no problems what so ever. Can’t wait till NAB, Adobe said they are updating in the first half of this year so I am sure we will see something at NAB.

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[Ron Pestes]

I have used both cameras and own an EX-3. The EX-1 wins in my opinion because it is much better in low light with less noise and a smoother shadow detail. It also has focus stops instead of spinning the focus ring forever like the NX5. Also has a better zoom control and manual controls. No contest for me.

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[Ron Pestes]

The arrows show up on the lower left side but the tutorial shows them in the middle of the panel along with the anchor point. I see neither in the panel itself, just the arrows at the left lower edge. Visabilaty is on.

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[Ron Pestes]

Yes, it is highlighted. No arrows in the composition.

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[Ron Pestes]

Goto https://marvelsfilm.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/marvels-ex1-and-ex3-profile-settings-for-filmic-look/

I have been using this profile for a long time and it works great. It tones down the blown out whites and gives a very good overall look without being to saturated. I saved it to 4 different profiles and then just changed the white balance for each one to outdoor, indoor, cloudy and shade. That way I can quickly change to the correct white balance by changing the profile. I still do manual white balance if the lighting is mixed but have had great luck with this.

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MacBook Pro
Dell M6600
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