Tim Kolb
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Just saw this thread…
If you’ll be using shared assets in Premiere Pro, I would think you might want to go to your preferences-media tab to make sure all the XML Metadata linking and writing is off. With two instances of PPro accessing one media file and both are trying to write media cache files next to original files and writing IDs and linking, etc, etc…it could get strange.
I don’t know how Walter does it…I’m a single user shop, but I do save projects to my NAS and access it later from other machines occasionally.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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Hmmm…”Hackintosh”…just the word has more adventure than I’m interested in…
If it was Windows, I’d start by asking about any networked printers…but Mac OS is pretty self-contained that way I assume.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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[Richard Cardonna] “They can make upgrading available only from a previous version. Any prior version can also upgrade but for a higher cost”
Yeah…they’ve done that before…and the “upgrade every other version” guys tossed a fit about that…because they all felt they were being abused.
It also means that Adobe has to have a product code for every possible upgrade scenario…CS4 to CS6…CS5 to CS6…CS5.5 to CS6…every point product…every suite…suddenly one simple software upgrade is actually three products…resellers have to now stock three different SKUs because they each sell for a separate price…the overhead cost was ridiculous, not to mention all the specific serial number dependencies, etc.
Adobe has been streamlining this whole process based on user feedback, and they’ve likely been able to see some decreased costs as well…good for them, they’re a business.
Again, we expect software companies to give us more and more while we pay less and less…it’s unsustainable.
Posting 80% of your revenue in a quarter followed by three quarters of heavy investment and expense is not a plan many of us would want to operate a business on…I know some are shocked by this change coming now…I’m a little surprised we didn’t see it 5 years ago as the CS era synchronized all the applications’ release timelines and really created massive revenue peaks and valleys.
Adobe will be giving details on all this shortly, so I’d ask those of you who are guessing they will sell your identity and charge hotel movies to your credit card to chill a bit until some factual information is released.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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You may want to try using a luma curve instead of the Fast CC to “roll off” those highlights vs chop them off?
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “With perp.license upgrades, with a mature product – they’ve got to sell you that they are advancing and so should you.”
Well…OK. What should the next big advance be?
A lot like *edit, at this point Premiere Pro has accumulated a fairly extensive if not bloated slate of features…other than a few platforms that still hold an edge for strict editorial on the timeline, it does most things competitively or superior to most competitive products…don’t you run out of shiny objects to tack on after a while?
Again, I hear where you’re coming from, but software companies need to re-think how to derive income from their intellectual property as software itself has been decreasing in price in a world where everything else is headed the other direction.
At 600.00/yr it’s still about 6% of what the yearly charge was for tech support and software patches for Avid’s online systems a decade ago…and it’s about 10% of what I used to pay for the same support for Media 100. My Media 100 didn’t stop working if I stopped paying the support fee of course, but they didn’t ship me updated product (hardware) as part of my maintenance fee either… And I wouldn’t have been able to rent hardware for 50.00/month if I needed it down the road.
I’m still a little concerned myself as to how this will work out, but frankly after 25 years of watching this orgy of feature packing and price slashing, I’ve been wondering how in the world these manufacturers will be able to continue…there are only so many users you can add with lower pricing, eventually you’re at saturation. Ask Avid.
However it turns out, the assertion that a company who sells products that improve as fast as software does for less and less over time (look at the 10-15 year progression) is somehow scheming like some sort of software illuminati, is definitely FUD.
“Bing” of course is a different story… 🙂
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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You can certainly select all the clips in one folder…it may take a while to process…
You could also change your preferences and simply tel PPro that all stereo audio should be handled as dual-mono, though you’d probably have to then re-load the material…and of course anything you WOULD want as stereo would have to be hand-converted the reverse of what I was suggesting earlier with a right-click and modify.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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Well…it sort of depends on what your ideal setup would be.
If you are considering running Resolve, then that decision is made…
If you want HDMI 4K from the card, the Kona 3G doesn’t have that at this time.
But, as you mentioned, many people have a track record with AJA that they appreciate. I’m sure BlackMagic has loyal and happy customers too.
This might be something you’d want to post on each of those forums and see what you get (sorting through whatever zealotry might arise of course).
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “As Groucho Marx once said “A plumber doesn’t rent his pliers every four weeks – that would be insane.””
Well, craftsman doesn’t update pliers tooth depth or jaw angle every time a new pipe is invented, so that metaphor is tough to use for anything but a bumper sticker.
When I’m thinking pricing, I’m thinking Master Suite…which is the most similar product lineup.
It wasn’t all hat long ago that I was paying well over 2,000.00 USD for a half-dozen floppy disks with a version of AE that I could probably run on my phone these days…
Adobe’s products are incredibly powerful, and even though their costs keep increasing (more engineers and more licensed and purchased technology) their prices have been decreasing for 15 years. I watched the highly respected Discreet *edit die because it was a great product that was ahead of its time that was no longer viable as a revenue producing product in Discreet’s business model of the time…
Business models change and I suppose it all rides on whether you see software as a product, with each version being a different product, or you see the upkeep of that software as something of a service for the longer term. FCP7 users certainly didn’t feel that FCPX was a new product, delineated from FCP7…they felt that Apple had abandoned them and that there was some ongoing pact between customer and company that the company somehow breached.
What better way to carry on a symbiotic relationship than to have a company need to earn your business every month? (or maybe they’ll ave a plan where you can just pay a year up front…)
I get where you guys are coming from, but I think we can look around and see that all our files and data and software tools are pretty transient these days already.
I’ll admit it will be a bit different for me to “subscribe” as well, but I can still see where it can have benefits, and I have a feeling Adobe won’t be alone in this for long as companies need to keep re-examining how they monetize their products with pricing pressure tightening all the time, and engineering demands increasing…(Avid Media Composer 7, 999.00 USD?)
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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How would you feed it?
DVI/DisplayPort, etc from display card. or video out of an AJA/BMD?Bluefish/Matrox card? (feeding from the display card, or cloning an output from your display card would help with the framerate issues I would think…)
Sometimes smaller is a bit better as images look sharper…but it depends on the client.
If you were thinking about a touch above a consumer TV, JVC’s Pro LCD Panels impress me for the money…but it’s probably 4x a nice consumer panel.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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I haqven’t been a Mac guy for 10+ years, so Ryan’s info is something I didn’t know…
I assume you bought these cards used? (they’re a couple of ticks back in the Quadro lineage).
After you check on Ryan’s point, I’m wondering if you switched the cards just to see if the problem stays with the machine or follows the specific card…? Both machines have an adequate power supply, right? (I think I have a 4800 around here, but I can’t recall if it needs an extra power tap in addition to the slot or not…I think it does)…if the card wasn’t adequately powered due to a loose cable or something like that, you’d have issues, certainly.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor