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Re: Premiere Pro CS6 announced - 12 years ago
strypes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > >It's not ProRes though, since that belongs to > Apple. > > They can do ProRes. I don't see any reason why > not. Premiere can render to Prores, so I don't see > any reason why it can't transcode to Prores and > keep accurate timecode and reel data. Keep in mind Premiere Pro cannot createby walterbiscardi - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: $999 FCP to Avid Symphony crossgrade offer - 12 years ago
We had a discussion about Symphony vs. Media Composer at our recent Atlanta Cutters meeting. First off, keep in mind that right now Symphony is $500 LESS than Media Composer if you use the Cross Grade. Second, apparently Avid has no plans to discontinue Symphony and in fact plans to enhance that tool moving forward. I guess the idea is to create more of a differentiation between MC andby walterbiscardi - Avid Media Composer
Re: Premiere Pro CS6 announced - 12 years ago
Andy Field Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Walter and Jude - curious as to what the Media > Management shortcomings are - There really isn't any. Under the hood there's some real shortcomings in the media management as a whole. I was hoping to run some very large projects on there, but I'm not certain all the media would re-connect correctly. And tby walterbiscardi - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: OT miss the banter - 12 years ago
I've been saying that about the post production community as a whole over the past year. The worst thing about the FCP X fiasco is that it's turned people against each other. "You're with us or against us" if you don't like a particular tool and if they don't like what you say, then they have to disparage both you and your work.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Evan Schechtman of @RadicalMedia on the State of the NLE - 12 years ago
grafixjoe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > .. Life has a funny way of > coming around full circle, don't it? I always said I would 'never run Avid' in my shops. And now we're installing 5 Symphonies here. Yeah, never say never......by walterbiscardi - Café LA - X
Re: Larry Jordan reveals Apple's FCPX Roadmap - 12 years ago
Andy Field Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Listen to the Mark Raudonis, Bunim/Murray senior > vice president Post Production in this video - and > you realize Apple just didn't listen to editors > and they are indeed scrambling to catch up a year > later - while Premier Pro and Smoke - smoke's them > in going to where the puck will be.by walterbiscardi - Café LA - X
Re: Premiere Pro CS6 announced - 12 years ago
strypes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > >They actually have trimming now. > > Not just that, also Prelude, which looks like Avid > Medialog. I hope the notion that Premiere is only > good for short form work will be banished for > good. Unfortunately the media management as a whole in Premiere Pro is still crappy to non-existant anby walterbiscardi - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: Adobe Production Premium CS6 revealed @ NAB... - 12 years ago
If you go to Lynda.com Richard Harrington has videos of them posted. All the apps are quite good, though I will say I honestly did not test Encore during the program. Avid and Adobe in your shop will be the perfect one / two punch for editors, especially with the current pricing on Symphony.by walterbiscardi - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: "Are any Broadcast TV shows using FCPX?" - 12 years ago
Quite honestly everyone should be lining up to purchase Avid Symphony and Adobe CS6. Awesome one-two punch in the edit suites. We based our decision on moving all our broadcast work to Avid based on our testing of CS6, but it's still a great tool and we will be using it for editing work in our shop outside of broadcast. As for Leverage, we're already reaching out to get either the Directoby walterbiscardi - Café LA - X
Re: Premiere Pro CS6 announced - 12 years ago
There are a ton of new improvements that users will love, but there were just enough core editing fails in the system that made my editors choose MC6 over CS6. The audio mixer being Track Based with no option to go Clip Based was one of the bigger ones. We were really hoping they would make that happen, but it didn't. But overall, I think folks will be very impressed and happy with CS6.by walterbiscardi - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: $999 FCP to Avid Symphony crossgrade offer - 12 years ago
So funny, someone at Autodesk started that on Twitter. "They must be canceling Symphony." Wonder why nobody thought Avid was canceling Media Composer last year when they dropped the price. The answer I'm getting is "No." This is a two month, one time only, take it or leave it offer. I'm already planning to change my order of four Media Composers to four Symphoniesby walterbiscardi - Avid Media Composer
Re: "Are any Broadcast TV shows using FCPX?" - 12 years ago
Wish they would have interviewed some of the editors, Sound Designers and Colorists in addition to the Director. Would be nice to hear their thoughts on the transition from the FCP 7 workflow to X.by walterbiscardi - Café LA - X
Re: Using 27" iMacs to replace Desktop Workstations - 12 years ago
Sprocketz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > On the use of Resolve, don't you still need the > appropriate Blackmagic IO card to run the full > app? > Or have I missed new developments at Blackmagic. Yes, hence the reason I said ProTools and Resolve will continue to run on "Big Iron." I'm not completely eliminating Big Iron systems froby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Using 27" iMacs to replace Desktop Workstations - 12 years ago
strypes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Nice. Especially that the iMacs support jumbo > frames. However, > > 1) with regards to the price comparison, how does > the price fare with a bottom end MacPro? If I'm buying a "big iron" system, then I'm buying a top of the line. To me a bottom end Mac Pro pretty much equals the perforby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Using 27" iMacs to replace Desktop Workstations - 12 years ago
Over the weekend I put together some thoughts on using the new 27" iMac to replace many of our "Big Iron" desktop workstations. Essentially I can put together 5 top of the line iMacs for around $16,000 vs. $50,000 for Mac Pros or $56 to $68,000 for similar PCs. Full Article here on my Blog.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: 720p 60fps - 12 years ago
720p/60 equals 29.97 fps for broadcast. That is it converts perfectly to 1080i / 29.97 for broadcast because the 60 progressive frames turn into 60 interlaced fields perfectly cleanly. If you shoot 720p / 30 and then convert that to 1080i / 29.97 for broadcast or blu-ray you get a lot of strobing in the image because you only have 30 frames for 60 fields. So each frame is doubled giving youby walterbiscardi - Café LA - X
Re: Upgrading to Lion - New OS coming this summer. - 12 years ago
I just ran into a situation with a new driver for a product that I HAD to upgrade one of our systems to Lion. That ended up going well, so we're now upgrading all our systems to Lion (on a second hard drive in each system) and what we do notice is that the systems do run a little faster. But without that need for the driver requiring Lion, I would still be sitting tight and just waiting forby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Another Other NLE - 12 years ago
Kind of funny that AE artists can't figure out Premiere Pro since it and AE are so similar.... I've heard the same thing here and it never made sense to me.by walterbiscardi - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: Applying color correction to multiple clips - 12 years ago
What software are you using?by walterbiscardi - Avid Media Composer
Re: Upgrading to Lion - New OS coming this summer. - 12 years ago
If you haven't updated yet, just wait till this summer. We're still running Snow Leopard on all our systems at the office and my personal computers as well. And now Apple announced Mountain Lion coming this summer. Looks like Apple realizes Lion wasn't quite ready for prime time, so here comes another OS already. The video does a nice job with the overview.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: OT: "Mountain Lion" is coming... - 12 years ago
Makes me very glad I have not updated anything to Lion yet except our main SAN server. Here's the full overview. Almost like an acknowledgement by Apple that Lion wasn't quite ready for prime time when it came out. Mountain Lion looks like they finally get the Macs talking well with the i devices. The video is quite good with the overview.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: transferring files to ugh Premiere - 12 years ago
FCP 5? Wow, that's pretty darn old. If that has an XML File Export option, then it's quite simple to move your project to Premiere. But the big question is, what type of files do you have and what version of Premiere Pro does your client have? With FCP 7 and CS 5 or CS 5.5 it's as simple as...... Export XML from FCP. Import XML to Premiere Pro. Start editing. The entire proby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Mac Pros? Something happening? - 12 years ago
Yeah, something is definitely happening..... We're receiving our first Dell Workstation in a few weeks to test with Adobe Premiere Pro and Avid. That would have been unthinkable to me before last April's "X Sneak Peek."by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: 10.0.3 and it's BIG - 12 years ago
trevora Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sorry if this is too OT... > > > we should have our first HP workstation in here in > the next few weeks for testing finally. Cross > Platform opportunities with Avid / Adobe are big > reasons for me to consider those apps. > > > HP workstations are the easiest (just like buyingby walterbiscardi - Café LA - X
Re: 10.0.3 and it's BIG - 12 years ago
craig seeman Wrote: -------------------------------------------------------> > Walter, it's not just the "Pro" market, it's the > reverse "Halo" effect as all the personnel at > facilities think about their home and mobile > computers as they move to HP Workstations at work. > The further away content creation moves from the > Apple ecosystem, theby walterbiscardi - Café LA - X
Re: 10.0.3 and it's BIG - 12 years ago
craig seeman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Michael Horton Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > Consider the outrage over the inability to import > anything from FCP7. They did nothing to quell the > noise leading people to think "impossible" and > "never." They could have said XML is underby walterbiscardi - Café LA - X
Re: Choosing your next editing and finishing system - 12 years ago
MarcAndreFerguson Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Let's imagine price wasn't an issue, what would be > Smoke's most compelling features for you? > What would make you want to have at least one > station in your studios? > How would Smoke benefit your workflow? > > Again, thanks for humouring me. Trust me, this is > valuable and isby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Choosing your next editing and finishing system - 12 years ago
I think this is quite the good discussion and price is 100% the reason I hear from people that they won't consider Smoke. $15,000 for one workstation, no matter how "fast and powerful it is" is still for me, just one workstation that can scream. I have 6 workstations set up right now with each costing about $15,000 including the software. So now each of those workstations is goingby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: FCP on ebay - 12 years ago
A LOT of stability and efficiency / speed changes with FCP 7 vs. 6. Not sure where the 6.0.6 update is. Perhaps the person she's buying it from would have it downloaded?by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: End of FCP?? - 12 years ago
Jude Cotter Wrote: -------------------------------------------------------> > Also, several people did try to buy the code for > FCP7 and were rejected. They preferred it dead. Again, Apple didn't necessarily "prefer it dead." They did not want to have to license back any and all intellectual properties / technologies that are still used in FCP X that were developed asby walterbiscardi - Café LA
