Steve Martin
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I’ve got one cloud seat now along with a CS6 Production Premium seat and think I’ll stay put with that arrangement and see what Adobe charges for the CS7 upgrade.
In the past, the upgrade cost was around $375 if I recall. If thats the case again, I’ll likely do the perpetual licence upgrade for one seat and keep the cloud for the other… While I’m not opposed to the cloud, like many, I like have the option to own the software.
For example, while I’m really liking all the Adobe products now, a few years from now they may flounder (see Apple’s FCP fiasco). If that happens and I switch to a different platform, I’d like the flexibility of being open “legacy” Adobe projects without needing to maintain a monthly subscription.
I know there’s been a lot of heat on this topic and I’m certainly not looking to start any fights… but for now I think that’s the approach for me.
Production is fun – but lets not forget: Nobody ever died on the video table!
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Thanks for a detailed outline Tim. This is one of those threads that I’ll bookmark for future reference! But the line about stabbing yourself in the weenie? Dude, I cringed just reading that… just wrong… soooo wrong!
Production is fun – but lets not forget: Nobody ever died on the video table!
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Hi Trey,
It’s hard to know what the outcome will be from a business perspective, but I can tell you this: I love it. I get those same calls and I struggle with how to deal with them. I don’t want to blow them off because, like you said, it could be a great gig. But separating the wheat from the chaff is both time consuming and infuriating!
With very few tweaks, I think your article can be adapted for just about any production project – commercials, promo/corp videos, short indies and more.
Two thumbs up from me for the concept. But be careful. Your competitors my try to use it against you and label you as “arrogant” or attach some other derisive motive to your thoughtful and honest writing.
An alternative maybe try a private link. You get the call, invest 5 minutes and when you realize that the person you’re talking to needs an education, you offer them a FREE EXECUTIVE BRIEFING on the production basics. You’d normally charge $??? for the advise in this briefing… but because we really like the opportunity to work with new music talent…. yada yada….. Then send them a link to a page that is otherwise unavailable to the public.
Just an idea…
Good luck,
SteveProduction is fun – but lets not forget: Nobody ever died on the video table!
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Yea Mark – I thought it was very odd… and yes, now that you mention it – kind of creepy too.
I didn’t get that warm fuzzy feeling about health care that they usually try to invoke. But maybe that was the point? Does anyone really think that health tech firms really give a rat’s a** about the individual patient? Perhaps their just pointing at the elephant in the room?
Still… it rubbed me the wrong way.
Production is fun – but lets not forget: Nobody ever died on the video table!
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Also, make sure that the photoshop file is in RGB mode (not CYMK)…
Production is fun – but lets not forget: Nobody ever died on the video table!
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Your post doesn’t say, so I’ll assume nothing…
1) make sure that when you make a new file in photoshop, that you set the background as transparent
2) Save as a regular Photoshop file
3) When importing into Premiere, you have the option to keep layers separate or combine them.It SHOULD be that simple. If not, there may be something else at play…
Good luck!
Production is fun – but lets not forget: Nobody ever died on the video table!
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Thanks Walter! I’ll check out the Small Tree product you mentioned and will look forward to your article/post on Anywhere and Mint.
In the meantime, I’ll continue to play with the shared media. This is something that I could never try in FCP7 because of the need to transcode everything to big QT files. Now that we’re working with native files in Premier Pro, it really shrinks the footprint of the media files (not to mention the time savings from the Log & Transfer process). In those cases where we need uncompressed or ProResHQ, I’ll still need to run the media locally on the workstation raid. But for many projects – this looks promising!
Also, on an unrelated note, after my visit to your facility last year, I stopped by the FSI office close to you and loved the monitors. We ended up getting one and love it!
Production is fun – but lets not forget: Nobody ever died on the video table!
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OK – I have a slightly different take… Having been in this business for 25 years now (damn, I’m getting old!) I remember paying huge dollars for my first “real” editing platform, an A/B/C roll edit suite made up of JVC 622 S-VHS and Sony UVW BetaSP decks. Then I remember what a “savings” it was for my first NLE, a Media100-XR with a whopping 16G raid. The NLE system cost about $40k (about half the cost of an AVID system). With a useful life of about 3-4 years, my annual cost to edit was about $10k.
My CS6 system (which is obviously much more powerful) costs a fraction of what I paid for my M100 XR. And while hourly fees are generally lower now then they were in the 90s, the reality is that the expense of owning, maintaining an edit suite are much much lower now than they were then.
Now I’m sure everybody’s situation is different (different business models, markets, talent level, etc…) But for me, the cost of the editing software (while still relevant), is less of a factor that it ever has been.
But if Adobe makes the mistake of thinking that they’re the only game in town and can dictate to us professionals how things are gonna be, they’ll be in for the same rude awaking as the bitch-slapping that Apple just endured. There’s always someone else ready to fill the void created by arrogant stupidity.
Just my 2 cents…
Steve Martin
Omni Productions
Orlando, FLProduction is fun – but lets not forget: Nobody ever died on the video table!
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Thanks so much Joe – that is EXACTLY what I’ve been searching for – just couldn’t find it. I love the COW pasture. Mmmmooooooooo!
I hope for the opportunity to return the favor one day soon!
All my best,
SteveProduction is fun – but lets not forget: Nobody ever died on the video table!
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Yeppers – there it is!
Production is fun – but lets not forget: Nobody ever died on the video table!