Walter Biscardi
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[Franz Bieberkopf] “Or, to put it another way: if Adobe wishes to relieve Al Mooney from questions about the subscription model, who did they send to NAB to discuss it?”
There appeared to be approx. 50 – 100 Adobe Team personnel on site at NAB this year. Any public comments are made through their PR department. Al was there to meet with company representatives and to make public appearances at events like the SuperMeet.
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[Franz Bieberkopf] “Cross posting this from the Adobe CC Debate forum, because it’s pretty stunning to me.”
When you have to deal with the garbage Al and the rest of the Adobe Technical team have had to put up with for the past two years, he’s allowed to have a “moment.” All the vitriol directed towards people who had absolutely nothing to do with the decision to go subscription does wear on you after a while. People on this very forum seem to be openly cheering for Adobe to fail. How do you think that reads to the people who are simply creating great software for us to use? They are working their butts off to get new features, fix bugs and in general make our lives easier. All the while seeing people on forums just like this one openly cheering for Adobe to fail.
Adobe is not some nameless company. For me Adobe is Al, David, Todd, Dennis, Megan and a bunch of other really great people. It doesn’t make work pleasant when the same people have nothing better to do than to whine and complain day after day after day after day…. .and cheer on the hopeful failure of their company.
If you know Al, and I’m VERY fortunate to have known him for three years now, you know he is probably THE most positive person in the industry and well loved even by his competitors for just being a nice guy. It’s very uncharacteristic for Al to have public moment like this, but he’s also human.
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[David Mathis] “Just curious as to who might jump over to Resolve 11 for editing as well. “
We all saw this coming last year. They released a basic editing tool kit to allow the colorist to make simple changes to an edit so it didn’t have to go back to the Editor. But looking at the editing functionality in Resolve 10, it wasn’t hard to see it advancing further to a fully functional NLE.
Resolve 11 and the addition of the former Product Manager for Apple’s Final Cut Pro shows clear intent to move into the fully functional NLE market. It’s a VERY small step from where Resolve 11 is to calling itself a full fledged NLE. I would suspect by IBC or certainly NAB next year they’ll be showing Editing and Color at two different demonstration stations.
Is Resolve 11 all that? We don’t know until it gets out into the hands of the many and we see if we can break it. But with Alexis van Hurkman being very much a part of the development and now we have the former FCP 7 product manager on board at Blackmagic, the intention of Grant Petty is very clear. A true non-linear editor that will not only be feature rich, but absolutely free.
I knew this was coming, I just expected there to be one more year before the tool got this far. I will definitely be testing this alongside our current Adobe workflow when we get it in the shop. For quick turnarounds, shorter projects, it can definitely handle that when it drops. The real question will be long format projects and whether they will ever start allowing third party plug-ins to work with the editor.
The realtime color grading while editing is simply incredible and a real world application that I would use tomorrow if we had it. Editor finishing up the edit, adding graphics, etc.. while I color grade simultaneously and update their timeline. If that works out of the gates, Resolve really will be our finishing editor pretty quickly.
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They cannot enact that retroactively. For articles moving forward, yes, but for articles already out there, nope. Simply inform them that the retroactive part is not acceptable to you and you’d be happy to have a lawyer draw up a proper contract.
Work for Hire moving forward though, perfectly valid if you accept their terms. If not, move on. Creative Cow is an awesome place to write for if you’re writing in the creative space. 🙂
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[Matt Campbell] “I’m hoping to get the Cuda working with AE CS6 as well. My current hack only gets me Premiere acceleration and not AE for some reason. I want to pay with ray tracing!”
Adobe CC supports Open GL as well. I was in the AMD Booth at NAB watching beautiful 6k playback off a Dell workstation via one of the new AMD cards running Open GL. CUDA is not essential for the Adobe suite any longer.
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[Matt Campbell] “My question is, I’m pushing hard for 2 new iMacs, but am being countered with, “why can’t we use Mac Mini’s,” because we’ll save about $1500.”
I’m waiting to see if Apple refreshes the Minis in June. If they can take 32GB RAM, we’ll give them serious considerations here. But also note that we have a few “Big Iron” systems for heavy rendering.
If you will ONLY have the 2 machines, go with the iMacs. You’ll love em. Just be sure they have the full 32GB RAM in them for best performance. My editors just love working with them and they’ll save you quite a bit of money over the Mac Pro.
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It works fine on both. We have Mountain Lion on my 5 workstations at the office. I also purchased a new MacBook Air two weeks ago and cut with Premiere Pro all week at the NAB Show.
In both cases, no problem.
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[Jon Doughtie] “This is twisted and vaguely disturbing.”
That’s why I give Adobe big props for letting Film Riot do this. It’s so much more entertaining than a bunch of talking heads explaining how the integration of the two tools will help their workflow. This is rather clever and the ending is brilliant.
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Lesson learned here, always shoot and light for green screen so you can change the color in the background at the whims of your client. This is a pretty normal thing to have happen after the shoot quite honestly, which is why we always shoot in front of white or green screen for changeable backgrounds.
For this situation, you want to brighten the heck out the scene and add a lot of saturation so you can essentially make a fake green screen. Just brighten it way up so you can pull a key from the screen.
Now use that key over your original scene so you can color correct your main subject in front of your key.
Now replace the keyed out green with whatever color the client wants.
You won’t be able to change the color well in one pass, so do this in two passes. Once for the key so you can change the color and the other for the foreground.
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[Ben Holmes] “but do have a Mac Pro with a Kona 3 (somewhere!) and I think some more testing is in order.”
The Kona 3 is now a legacy product, though they are still releasing software updates for it. When you go to AJA.com Support for the Software download, you’ll find it in the “Legacy” section on the right side of the screen, not with the other Kona products.
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