This is so exciting as Sony has always loved their proprietary formats, even proprietary media, and for them to be opening up their amazing cameras to ProRES and DNxHD even with a paid upgrade is huge. Especially with the F55 which has a Global Electronic Shutter, which gets rid of the rolling shutter problem of CMOS image sensors!
And it has beautiful image quality.
I know Apple must have purposely made Mavericks work with Final Cut Pro 7, but it still works and Premiere Pro CC and CS6 work just fine, so AVID had better get on the ball here.
Of course they have till December with the new MacPro (which will likely coincide with a new version of Mavericks), but that means no new Macs will run AVID until they update!
Wim Van den Broeck at AVID Blogs has a post on the new features, which all sound good. I love that it finally will export names longer than 27 characters! Took long enough!
Yes, just 4 months after their last upgrade, Adobe is good to it’s word and is turning around much faster upgrades with creative cloud, and in October are upgrading Premiere Pro, After Effects, Speed Grade, Prelude, Media Encoder, Story and are adding the iOS app Prelude Live Logger. Awesome! You can check out the upgrades at Adobe.
Steve Forde at the Adobe After Effects Blog has a post on the new After Effects Features.
The Adobe Premiere Pro Work area Blog has more on Premiere Pro, Media Encoder (which now has GPU enabled rendering!) and Prelude and Prelude Live Logger.
The Adobe Moving Colors blog has more on the SpeedGrade Upgrade which includes direct link (an improvement over Dynamic Linking which you can see more about here) and GPU acceleration.
Thank you Adobe, looking forward to it! And here’s to hoping that Adobe permanently keeps up this rapid pace of development, except it will certainly keep us editors on our toes, as I have just scratched the surface of CC by now! Ha!
Now this is just showing how long it has been since I have worked in offline resolutions in AVID Media composer, but I didn’t realize that basically Decompose doesn’t work with imported clips. It leaves the clips their whole length, not subclipping anything to consolidate space. So if you were to re-import you are taking entire clips.
Scott Simmons at the Pro Video Coalition has posted 25 new features of AVID Media Composer 7.
Let’s hope the cached waveform redraw is great, as this has been a sore point with AVID forever!
Spanned Markers is a cool idea for sure.
Masks on output monitor is awesome, especially for center cut shows done in widescreen, which I often have to do!
Changing audio gain in timeline is a great addition.
AVID has released Media Composer 7. And it is now $999.00 and the upgrade from 6.5 is $299 and the upgrade from Previous version is $399.
I would love to give it a run as I have 6.5, but can’t afford it right now. And honestly AVID never changes that much that most post houses that use it won’t be upgrading, so it isn’t as important to learn as say Premiere Pro that many people are now considering and most editors don’t have much experience with.
Josh Short at Screenlight on 8 AVID Media Composer Default Settings you should change now.
All are good and smart changes that you should make. And remember the more recent versions of AVID now use XML for your user, so you will need to make new user settings for them anyway.