CS4 – Questions, Doubts, Impressions and Confessions of an FCP Cutter

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I’ve been a dyed-in-the-wool FCP cutter for about nine years. Until yesterday, I felt like I had good reason not to seriously consider other NLE’s. Vegas? Not powerful enough. AVID? Clunky and temperamental. Premiere? Nothing but a passing fancy to a Mac user. Then I got a load of an eye-opening demo of CS4′s Premiere by Adobe’s Dave Helmly. And you know what? I’m willing to make a pronouncement–as of today, hands down, it looks like it kicks FCP’s ass all-over the playground in terms of functionality. I don’t want to shill for Adobe, but...

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MSB Video Update

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Mac Business Solutions held an industry update yesterday, featuring some pretty cool talks from (all the vendors, of course, but especially …) CPC Web, who demoed an innovative HD captioning solution from CPC Web for FCP users who have a Matrox MXO2 I/O A nice photoshop for vid tutorial from Rich Harrington Schwag BUT the thing that blew my mind is what Adobe’s Dave Helmly quickly ran through with Premiere in CS4, so much that it warrants a “real...

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Shared Video Asset Storage; Facilis VS Editshare

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Here at the NSF’s OLPA, we’ve been trying to figure out the best setup at work to share assets among five FCP seats and a couple of Avids. Right now, as far as the hardware goes, it’s looking like it’s between a Facilis Terrablock or an Editshare , with us leaning towards Editshare. Here’s a diagram of our workflow, we’re also evaulating DAMs. If anyone has experience from the field, I’m all...

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