Shawn Miller
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“Most new Premiere Pro users didn’t go out and buy it, they already had it and just never opened it.”
Just curious, Daniel. Why do you say that? PPro has been very popular since CS4 and much moreso since CS5.
Shawn
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“And you have a CUDA as part of your setup?”
Yes, my main workstation (at work) has a Quadro FX 4800 and my home machines have FX 3800 and 1700 cards respectively. Again, I’m a Windows user so I can’t speak to the performance of my Mac OS counterparts.
Shawn
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“True, but still, even though PPro is designed to work in “real time” more so than AE, it doesn’t all the time.”
I don’t think I said anything about Premiere Pro, so I’m not sure what your point is here. AE uses a proxy workflow because it’s (sometimes) the only way to work with a complex composite. AE artists don’t (or shouldn’t) expect realtime playback of heavy projects at full resolution.
“Have you tried PPro with a capture card yet? Adding filters and effects to 4k or 4k raw footage isn’t exactly real time, unless you have CUDA, which doesn’t work very well with capture cards on a Mac. So it’s not all roses and pancakes.”
Yes, I use PPro with Blackmagic capture cards for all editing projects. I haven’t worked with a lot of Red footage, but when I do, it’s a pretty smooth experience. It’s about equal to editing H.264 @ 1080 24p. I can add filters, stack graphics and audio without major playback issues. Though I must confess, I haven’t had to cut a heavy 4K RAW project yet. Then again, I’m not a Mac user so my user experiences may be different.
“Having a proxy workflow in PPro would make much more sense to me as with AE…”
You actually can use a proxy workflow in PPro, this has been possible since the Premiere 6.5 days, it’s just not “built in” the same way it is in AE.
“…everything needs to be RAM previewed anyway.”
Yup, because it’s a completely different kind of tool. With Motion Graphics/VFX work, you don’t expect to work in full resolution in real time.
Thanks,
Shawn
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“What is weird is that After Effects has a proxy generator.”
Well, maybe it’s not so strange… considering that AE isn’t designed to work in real time…
Shawn
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“There’s actually someone in Seattle not using Windows?”
Yup, the bigger post houses here are (were) as Mac centric as anywhere else… I know of a few smaller operations that fought to get Macs in their environments… now I wonder what moving away from FCPX will mean for them.
Shawn
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“Apple is inviting studios to consider APCs”
Too true… anecdotally, I’ve just learned that two of the biggest post houses and one of the larger PR agencies in my town (Seattle) are swithing back to Avid because of FCPX. I don’t know if they’re also switching to Windows 7… but I imagine the door is open in all three cases.
Shawn
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“The Towers are a thing of the past. There really is no need for them any more.”
This may be true for editors,but for 3D/VFX artists and audio post/producton professionals, there will always be a need for the most powerful machines available.
Shawn
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I seem to recall Alex Lindsay doing some good tutorials on the subject for cineversity.com
https://www.cineversity.com/tutorials/lesson.asp?tid=1289
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“And show me an example of government efficiency, please”
If your house ever catches on fire, or someone violates you IP rights… just sayin’..
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Odd,it doesn’t sound like the study compares specific peer groups (mid level execs to mid level execs, for instance). It seems to compare high level employees to folks who don’t have any choice of over what they use at work.
I work in a company where a hand full of sales folks use iPads and MacBooks… they make more than our .Net develpers that work in Singapore… does that mean that our Mac using US sales folks are smarter and more productive than our developers in Singapore?
Shawn