[Shawn Miller]

[John Davidson] “Try getting a USB mic to work in Premiere.”

I use an M-Audio USB Mobile Pre on my mobile workstation (with Premiere) without issues. Does it not work under OSX?

Shawn

[Shawn Miller]

[Oliver Peters] “I’m not sure I agree that PPro is a good example of this. The CS6 UI is certainly more streamlined, but there are similar operational issues with CS6 as there have been in most of the recent, previous versions. Little was changed operationally – aside from a performance boost evident with each new version. Most of the change was cosmetic and in generic, a mimic of Avid Media Composer.”

I don’t know if that’s completely fair, Oliver. Multicam, timeline trimming, project panel operations (hover scrub, setting I/O) and audio track assignment/routing are all (now) operationally different from previous versions. Of course, Adobe did work alot on the UI as you mentioned. But PPro CS6 is a lot more than a few UI and performance tweaks… at least in my opinion.

Also, I’m not sure Herb was talking about CS6 when he was talking about the ground up re-write of PPro… the 64 bit overhaul happened in CS5.

Thanks,

Shawn

[Shawn Miller]

[Lance Bachelder] “By the way Vegas 12 has FCPX exporting! and it actually works! Plus FCP 7, Avid, Premiere and AE exporting! Not to mention the first NLE to support the Motion Picture Academy’s new ACES color workflow for digital cinema and other workflows as well as true RAW colorspace for F3 users.”

I think that’s awesome. I’m definitely going to keep a closer watch on Vegas.

Shawn

[Shawn Miller]

[Lance Bachelder] “It’s strength is in audio clean-up and repair and it is the gold-standard for mastering/finishing audio and CD prep. SoundForge is a tool you would have in addition to your favorite audio editor.”

Yes, I should have mentioned this too. When I was a fulltime audio editor, this is what I used SF for; mastering audio CDs, cleaning up audio tracks for video and sweetening music tracks. Today, I use it as a complement to Audition and Sonar.

[Lance Bachelder] “I’m hoping we’re going to see Vegas on the Mac soon too – that would be a real game changer as Vegas 12 has more flexibility and pro features than any other current NLE.”

I noticed that Vegas 12 got some pretty nice updates (XML interchange, P2 compatibility (finally), Open CL acceleration). I always liked Vegas for it’s flexibility and power, but became disenchanted with it’s instabiblity in later versions (10-11). I would love to see a really stable Vegas on the Mac though, I have a feeling that people would really like it.

Shawn

[Shawn Miller]

[Andy Field] “Never used SoundForge – can anyone explain why it’s better/worse/the same as Audition/Soundtrack Pro/Protools? Thanks”

Hey Andy,

I’ve never used STP and I’ve only used ProTools very lightly, but here’s what I like about SF:

• It’s stable
• The UI is clean and intuitive (to me at least)
• The built in tools like multiband compression, and noise reduction are powerful but easy to understand.
• It ships with six plugins from iZotope (the stereo imaging plugin is my favorite)
• It has very good analysis tools (phase, clipping)
• Batch conversion tool is very good

It’s just a very solid editing application. I hope folks will download it and give it a try.

Shawn

[Shawn Miller]

Kudos to Sony for bringing Sound Forge to the Mac. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this application, you really owe it to yourselves to try it. Sound Forge’s editing and mastering tools are simply excellent.

Shawn

[Shawn Miller]

[Shane Ross] “If he’s going to tell us what editing app he’s going to use and endorse…let me figure out what camera I think is the best option and endorse it.”

[Shane Ross]“LOL! Exactly – he’s a professional camera tester – not an EDITOR!”

FYI

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2423275/

Shawn

[Shawn Miller]

[Oliver Peters] “A sobering note for all of us here is that by definition, the majority of iDevice users are Windows/PC owners and NOT Mac owners.”

Sure, if you’re talking about desktop devices that are internet capable, Microsoft will probably own that market for decades to come (this shouldn’t be news to anyone). But the mobile device market really belongs to Google… taking a play from Microsoft’s playbook, licensing the OS and owning the business that it generates (analytics, infrastucture, services, etc). I know it may sound bizarre to some here, but Apple’s real competitor in mobile computing isn’t Samsung, it’s the company that’s dividing the mobile device market amongst a slew of hardware and services vendors. Between Samsung, Google and Amazon, it will be interesting to see what the tablet PC landscape looks like in the second quarter of FY13.

Shawn

[Shawn Miller]

[Bret Williams] “Is it? I don’t know. I know my wife has an android and the way you sync photos, music, contacts, etc. is with the moto app because it’s a motorola. Somehow, I think if her next android is an htc that she couldn’t just plug it in and press a button.

Sure some techno geek would say there’s a conversion tool somewhere or something, but isn’t that the point? The mac ecosystem rocks if you dive in completely.”

I’m not a “techno geek”, but I can say that there are multiple apps for synchronizing files and data across devices on Android. The Google apps for sync and sharing usually come pre-installed on Android devices, but they’re easy to get if they’re not (installed that is). It may also be worth noting that Google’s ecosystem is cross platform. So data on Google Drive or Gmail will sync across Android, iOS, Mac OS, Windows or Linux.

Shawn

Shawn

[Shawn Miller]

[Bill Davis] ”

[Shawn Miller] “So, it sounds like you’re describing an automatic encoding system that lets you programmatically render files out to specific locations in whatever format may be needed. Please correct me if I’m misunderstanding what you’re saying.”

Pretty close. Inside the software, for example, you can bake in your Vimeo or YouTube account settings. From within the software, you can then simply “print” your video to that account with nothing more than a stop (inside the software) to append search tags.

it makes “publish to my web accessible video portal” pretty much a single click operation.

Right now the auto-publish is limited to YouTube, Vimeo and CNN iReport – but clearly the design goal was to enable “publish out to services from within the app” as a software feature.”

Ah, I see. It’s literally like publishing a video asset for a website. I don’t think AME has that capability, just stock templates for authoring the media that goes to Vimeo or YouTube, or what have you. But I think its a cool feature. Does it only work for Vimeo and YouTube, or can you publish to any streaming media server or service?

[Bill Davis] “OK, I think I understand. You Export your Master to that folder, then it publishes via the other program. Does the Master file remain connected to the editorial functions ala X and Share? Or is that master disconnected from further revision?”

Yes, that’s correct. You can output master files from Premier (or AE, or Photoshop) directly to a watch folder, and AME will encode those files to any format(s) you wish. Once rendered or encoded, the output file has no association to the project.

[Bill Davis] ”
Thanks for helping me understand this, BTW.”

Thanks for helping me understand the publish/share features in X. They sound very cool.

Shawn