Walter Biscardi
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[Rafael Amador] “And why not FC.7?
It has got any kind of virus that doesn’t allows him to work anymore?”There are many of us who just don’t want to beat a dead horse any longer. When you start working with Premiere Pro, Avid or even FCP X you realize just how slow and inefficient FCP 7 has become.
For those who want to continue to work in FCP 7 I say keep rocking. For those who want to switch to something else, I say keep rocking.
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As a straight editor, Premiere Pro is a natural extension of Final Cut Pro 7. Operation is very similar if you switch the keyboard shortcuts to Final Cut Pro. However, digital format operation is much better with PPro than FCP 7.
Avid is definitely the defacto standard of operation and the only question that remains to be seen is if they can make the economic model of being a software predominate company work. They used to make most of their profit through selling hardware.
In our testing we have found one significant difference between PPro and Avid.
Tape operation is horrible in PPro. VTR control is fine, but the actual capture / master process is very very poor.
Tape operation is rock solid in Avid.
So if you will never need tape again, it’s a toss up, whichever you want to use. If you will need solid tape operation, right now Avid is the way to go.
Today, November 3rd, Avid is hosting a public webcast to announce something new. Most likely Media Composer 6. You can still register and listen in. 1pm Eastern Time US
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The new generation doesn’t see any value in resellers. They’d rather build it themselves and then turn to forums, chat rooms and twitter for tech support and installation tips.
I still purchase just about everything from my VAR because they’re worth a lot more than just the products they sell.
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That’s going to be pretty specialized most likely and you’ll probably need to look at something like Getty images to find that. Will be expensive. As others have suggested, through filters and color grading you can make anything new look as old as you want.
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[keith mcgregor] “All is set for FCP, not a problem there but all I get is a black screen in Color. “
If FCP still running in the background? If so, quit FCP. When you run both at the same time, they can compete for the Kona output resulting in a black screen.
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[Brad Froman] “So, by feeding the L5 with the Kona, is there any difference in the image compared to the L5 if it had the HD SDI input board?”
Not really. I graded most of the episodes of “Good Eats” for the Food Network on a whole range of other broadcast projects using those monitors before we switched over to the Flanders Scientific products. Excellent monitors and that was all feeding component analog HD.
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Yeah, just run analog component to the monitor and there you go. As long as it’s the Multiformat PVM L5/1 monitors, that displays beautiful HD via Component. It will auto switch to HD when it gets the signal from the card.
Believe it or not, we still have our 20 and 14″ models in our machine room used on a daily basis until those suckers finally conk out.
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[Chris Paul] “Maybe Adobe will also allow us to have more than one project open at a time.
“You can. Import > Project. Brings the entire project into a Bin. Double click to open the Bin. Presto, two (or more) projects open at the same time.
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Yep, I did tutorial video on Vimeo about this. I believe it’s also in the READ ME notes that come with the plug-ins.
This is all supposed to change when CS6 is released and we get new AJA drivers.
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Preferences > audio Hardware. Set that to anything OTHER than the AJA Kona.
Preferences > Player Set that to Adobe
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