This pieces of news caught me off guard, well it's not that new but the why is interesting.
The story goes something like this. The BBC wanted a system that'd work fully with Panny's P2 cards. Apple did their usual our way or no way head in the sand trick and in three weeks Adobe pulled the rabbit out of the hat. This shows one thing, any NLE can win prestigeous contracts if you're nimble on your feet and give the clients what they want.
During the panel discussion that I learnt this news at one of this forums members tore Apple to pieces. Apple seem to have devised the only operating system that can dmage video in a file video was the general gist of it. Things did get a tad heated from that point on!
After two days of listening to Red getting dumped on, directors talk about their first feature shot on a EZ1 and printed to 35mm (shudder), the staggering amount of data that Big Brother produces and how content management is the core of the whole monster, Vegas got one mention!
The only presenter that mentioned Vegas was a local Adobe Ambassador showing a few tricks in the latest PPro. Yes he said if you don't like PPro, no problem, you can edit in Vegas and use AAF to move your project to PPro and use some of these neat tricks. The one that got me was the Device Central console.
You render out for mobile phone delivery, send that to the console, select the phone and see how your video will look on that phone, you can change the ambient lighting conditions as well. Very handy for checking your text, can the titles be read, can the clients logo be seen etc. You can even dial back to your virtual server and check everything. Very cool and you don't have to really jump ship to use it.
One feature in PPro that I never knew existed that does seem kind of usefull was having multiple tabbed timelines. The presenter also made much about using nested projects, well OK we've got them too but he got me thinking more about just how powerful these things are. Between multiple timelines and nesting there's some very powerful creative tools in there and much of this that works just as well in Vegas.
By comparison damned if I could find anything that Apple and FCP had to show that even remotely got me excited.
One thing that did occur to me, Adobe have gotten smart. They don't exhibit much , instead they run their own roadshows and use these ambassadors to spread the word locally. They're free to say what they like and are therefore better received. Also their presentations go much deeper than what I see in Vegas demos.
Bob.
The story goes something like this. The BBC wanted a system that'd work fully with Panny's P2 cards. Apple did their usual our way or no way head in the sand trick and in three weeks Adobe pulled the rabbit out of the hat. This shows one thing, any NLE can win prestigeous contracts if you're nimble on your feet and give the clients what they want.
During the panel discussion that I learnt this news at one of this forums members tore Apple to pieces. Apple seem to have devised the only operating system that can dmage video in a file video was the general gist of it. Things did get a tad heated from that point on!
After two days of listening to Red getting dumped on, directors talk about their first feature shot on a EZ1 and printed to 35mm (shudder), the staggering amount of data that Big Brother produces and how content management is the core of the whole monster, Vegas got one mention!
The only presenter that mentioned Vegas was a local Adobe Ambassador showing a few tricks in the latest PPro. Yes he said if you don't like PPro, no problem, you can edit in Vegas and use AAF to move your project to PPro and use some of these neat tricks. The one that got me was the Device Central console.
You render out for mobile phone delivery, send that to the console, select the phone and see how your video will look on that phone, you can change the ambient lighting conditions as well. Very handy for checking your text, can the titles be read, can the clients logo be seen etc. You can even dial back to your virtual server and check everything. Very cool and you don't have to really jump ship to use it.
One feature in PPro that I never knew existed that does seem kind of usefull was having multiple tabbed timelines. The presenter also made much about using nested projects, well OK we've got them too but he got me thinking more about just how powerful these things are. Between multiple timelines and nesting there's some very powerful creative tools in there and much of this that works just as well in Vegas.
By comparison damned if I could find anything that Apple and FCP had to show that even remotely got me excited.
One thing that did occur to me, Adobe have gotten smart. They don't exhibit much , instead they run their own roadshows and use these ambassadors to spread the word locally. They're free to say what they like and are therefore better received. Also their presentations go much deeper than what I see in Vegas demos.
Bob.