Steve Brame
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Let’s straighten out the semantics here. A ‘workstation’ is simply a computer(with ANY OS), that is an extension of a network. There is also the ‘mainframe aspect’ of the term, but that’s not relevant here. Manufacturers are coining the term for their higher-end computers to indicate that they are better suited for heavier lifting. HP is one example.
While some seem to use it to intimate that a computer is of a lesser nature, the term ‘PC’ is commonly used to refer to a Windows-based computer, while it’s basic meaning is ‘personal computer’, again, regardless of what OS is installed.
So, you can have a ‘PC’ that may be considered a ‘workstation, and at the same time have a Mac that may fit into the realm of what some would consider a ‘PC’.
Our system is an 8 core machine with 24GB of RAM…and it’s a PC. Very little slows it down. I seriously doubt that many full length films are edited in After Effects, but many are done with a comparable machine…both PC and Mac in any flavor of editing software.
While a high powered system may make you wince at the price tag, that feeling will soon pass once you start working on it…especially if you’ve experienced life on anything less than a ‘workstation’.
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Yep…I still have one machine with CS4 on it, and tried it out. No individual timecode. I guess I dreamed it.
Getting old sucks, except for perhaps the senior citizen discount aspect.
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Great…I ask a ‘noob’ question like this and my photo gets put on the forum. That makes sense…
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“Thanks for your help. I’m doing all this before I start the project, to avoid a workflow nightmare further down the line, so just want to get this bulletproof before moving forward…”
One of the most brilliant plans I’ve ever read.
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We just received several cards from a Sony XDCAM camcorder each with a single recorded clip and the clip is broken up similarly in to ~4GB files. I simply imported the first of the files, and the clip created in Premiere was the entire clip from the card. So, each individual file must contain a pointer to the next one in the sequence.
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“lighter grey and much darker”
Maybe it’s just me, but these seem mutually exclusive.
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We were a Media Composer centric house until CS3 was released, and I got to try it out at NAB. We decided to install CS3 on our Avid PC, later upgrading to CS4 when it was released. I made several attempts to port older and current Avid projects to CS4 via AAF, and never was successful. It seemed from discussions on the web, at NAB and User Groups that it was a purely ‘hit and miss’ venture, mostly missing. We eventually abandoned Avid, and became an Adobe centric house, now having both a CS4 PC and a CS5 one. I haven’t tried moving an Avid project to CS5, but from what I’ve read, it seems to do better than earlier versions.
The inability to use the AAF route with CS4 forced us to finish up those projects with Avid, while starting new projects on CS4. This involved several hours or days editing on CS4, then having to switch to Media Composer to work on one of the older projects. Going to Avid directly from CS4, it felt like I have gone from typing with a word processor to chiseling in stone. Even though I had used MC for years, I found myself having to either grab the manual or sit and give serious thought as to how to do even the most common tasks, whereas in Premiere it seems totally intuitive. But, that’s just me.
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I’ve seen some discussion on dvinfo.net forums about the TriCaster line. We used an earlier model once at an event. I had sat through many of the demos at NAB(yes…Kiki)and that was actually enough training to be able to use it in a very basic way right out of the box. Waaay out of our price league to own, but they are easily rented in most large market areas.
The greatest thing since sliced bread? Maybe. Especially compared to a Videonics MX-1 or a Datavideo SE-500, both of which we have owned.
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It’s a plug -in from RevisionFX that was mentioned in the link that I posted in an earlier post. Here’s a link to it…
https://www.revisionfx.com/products/refill/
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Also, do not trust the initial reporting of ‘Estimated Time Left’ when rendering. I have a similar timeline of 4 minutes in length, 1080P AVCHD footage with the only ‘red bar’ effect being Magic Bullet Looks applied to most of the clips. For about 10 minutes the ‘Estimated Time Left’ showed as being a little over 2 hours. Then the ETL started dropping drastically and the actual render time came out at less that 20 minutes.
Steve Brame
creative illusions Productions