Walter Biscardi
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[Jeff Bernstein] “Have you played with the Cineform codec yet? It seems to be one of the better options with multiple quality levels, multiple platform support, and a road to 3D.”
Not yet, but this is what a lot of folks are recommending to me as we move away from FCP. Also wondering about whether Avid would release the DNxHD codec as a stand alone item for a mastering codec.
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[Drew South] “Tom – We do use the ProRes workflow some–“
That’s the part we’re still trying to figure out here. We won’t need the ProRes workflow anymore with Premiere Pro so what will be our final mastering codec? Not sure yet and something I’m talking to a bunch of folks about to get their opinions. Once FCP goes away from our machines, that means we won’t necessarily have the ProRes codec to write to any longer. We’ll be able to read it thanks to third party plugs, but I”m not sure I want to write to an Apple Proprietary codec any longer.
Lots to be figured out moving forward!
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Dual 4 core is an 8 core so you’re good to go.
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Why ask? The product hasn’t magically disappeared. Folks seem excited about the opportunity to purchase more licenses of it. I’m not because it’s an old program as it is, but folks are going to continue to use it for at least two more years is my guess.
Look at the FCP 6 questions that keep popping up on here.
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Running Leopard with FCP 7 in itself slows the entire operation down.
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And by the way, ensure that you boot the Mac in 64bit mode when testing. Default is 32bit mode.
that’s the one thing I have to ensure tomorrow when I get back in to the shop. Make sure the 4 core machine was in 64 bit mode.
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It’s looking like an 8 core Mac will be the minimum to run Adobe Premiere Pro CS 5.5 / AJA Kona combination. We have a single four core machine and while it can play with FCP fine and ProRes, the activity monitor shows that the CPUs completely max out with Premiere and the Kona playing a ProRes timeline. This causes dropped frames continuously. Remarkably though, the system does keep playing, it doesn’t just grind to a halt like FCP would with the dropped frames.
When I switched over to one of our 8 core machines, everything went beautifully. Still testing, but it’s looking like the four core machine is not going to cut it for this configuration.
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[Tom Daigon] “He linked to my computer and watched my screen as we both went step by step thru a process to try and isolate the problem. He was knowledgeable, patient and FREE.”
Actually I’ve heard this from multiple people about Adobe using their Connect function to simply screen share to both isolate problems and learn from the editors how they work. Very cool and very responsive.
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It’s doubtful you will ever see this support.
For this reason we installed a BlackMagic Extreme 3D card in our Resolve system. Works perfectly fine and of course the card was pretty cheap too.
If the Kona support should ever come, then we could look at putting Resolve in all our edit suites maybe, but for the time being it resides on one workstation in a color suite.
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Your Favorites are tied to your Prefs. If the Prefs get corrupted or trashed, they will disappear. You need to move them to an actual project. Here’s an FCP tip I did on this very problem.
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