[Shawn Miller]

[Chris Harlan] ” If I remember correctly, Audition is built on a very good Audio Editor from the ’90’s called Cool Edit.”

That’s correct, Adobe aquired CEP in 2003 (I believe)… I’ve been using it since it was v1 of Cool Edit. Sonar X1 is my main DAW, but Audition integrates so well with Premiere, I find myself using Sonar almost exlusively for music now. The round tripping between PPro and Audition has gotten good, so now I just find it easier to build up mixes there. IMO, it’s defintely worth a try.

Shawn

[Shawn Miller]

[Bill Davis] “Tell me the name of the other NLEs what have such an editing interface via front end data management database access windows right up front in the editing interface.”

Sony Vegas has been doing this since version 6 (I believe). Search, tagging, key wording all built on top of SQL Server 200x and integrated directly in the UI.

I haven’t used Vegas regulary for about two years… but those functions were very useful when I was using it heavily.

Shawn

[Shawn Miller]

[Simon Ubsdell] “Good point – should have thought of that. It’s just that I’d rather poke my eye out with a sharp stick than do this stuff in AE ;-)”

Fair enough. I wonder if this can be done in Blender… I haven’t tried it, but I know it now has node based compositing built in.

Shawn

[Shawn Miller]

[Simon Ubsdell]“You can of course achieve this in the much more humbly priced Conduit. And yes, it’s a good keying tip if you have access to any nodal compositor.”

Or… if you don’t have access to a node based compositor, but do have After Effects, you can use the Channel Combiner to convert from RGB to YUV, then use two instances of Channel Blur (one for blue one for green) and then use another instance of Channel Combiner to convert back to RGB from YUV. 🙂

FWIW, I do like Conduit as well. I’m hoping to see it come back to Windows some day.

Thanks,

Shawn

[Shawn Miller]

[Michael Gissing] “[tony west] “This forum, and what I see in my market are pretty different and I find that interesting.”

Indeed. I am sent projects from around Australia and so far no-one has asked if they can send a FCPX project. Most still use FCP7 and are waiting for CS6 before deciding on AVID or PP.”

FWIW, I’m seeing the same thing here in my little corner of Seattle, WA. ‘Bigger’ facilities that weren’t already Avid, are going from FCP7 to Avid with some consideration towards PP. Medium/smaller shops (PR/Ad agencies, in-house corporate video teams) and freelancers seem to be going half and half to Avid and PP, and freelancers I work with internationally (Asia and Europe), are seeming to favor Premiere. So far, I’ve only met two people who are using or considering FCPX.

Shawn

[Shawn Miller]

“[T. Payton]…and an App that accomplish about 90% of what Illustrator can do can (today’s Illustrator that is) can be purchased on the iPad for a mere $4.99.”

Which app is this? It would be great to have a vector drawing application that powerful on a tablet… assuming I can get useful files in and out of it. It would even be worth buying and iPad.

Thanks,

Shawn

[Shawn Miller]

“[Richard Herd]The pro part: It keeps losing media and I have to relink. Yesterday it stopped saving.”

Odd, I haven’t experienced this. Is it possible that you have a configuration/workflow issue?

Shawn

[Shawn Miller]

“[Richard Herd] IMO, Premiere is less of a pro app than X, but I haven’t used 6. ”

Just curious, Richard. Why do you say this?

[Shawn Miller]

“How will Windows 8 play in the workstation market?”

I have co-workers currently running Windows 8 on Tablet and workstations. Metro only appears in the desktop environment when syncing between a Windows Phone or Tablet (both sets of co-workers are developers). I haven’t played with it yet, but early adopters are telling me that it isn’t very different from running applications in Windows 7.

“Can you imagine trying to use Windows Server 2008 as a workstation?”

Yes, I’ve done quite a bit of encoding and live streaming on a portable box running Windows Server 2008.

“Does the workstation transform back into what it was in the 90s- a specialty box that you only use for a few limited purposes?”

Isn’t that mostly what workstations are today? I only use my workstations for creative work (editing, compositing, 3D, etc.). Productivity tasks (email, document creation, web), are mostly done on a laptop or smartphone… are others working differently?

Shawn

[Shawn Miller]

“but thats not an opinion – those two products – office and windows account for 70% of microsofts revenue.”

Okay, let’s say this statement is a provable fact.

“Windows is about to try and be an embedded tablet OS…”

Embedded and tablet versions of Windows have been available since before there was an iPad. The touch version of Windows was in develpment before many people knew what touch technology was. Win 8 wasn’t a huge surprise in that regard.

“and Office, in some form, is going to have to bow to appstore pricing norms in order to survive.”

Inexpensive versions of Office already start from about $150. How does the appstore change any of this?

“Microsoft is about to get financially gutted you know?”

I still think this is an opinion… unless you can prove otherwise. 🙂

Shawn