They could be waiting on the next Mac Pro... after all Apple did give Adobe & Photoshop a mention during the keynote, which is the single most surprising thing from the presentation for me. Sounds like Apple and Adobe are buddies again.
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Adobe CS6 impressive, glad I switched from FCP 7 / FCPX
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They could be waiting on the next Mac Pro... after all Apple did give Adobe & Photoshop a mention during the keynote, which is the single most surprising thing from the presentation for me. Sounds like Apple and Adobe are buddies again.
Agreed. FCPX has pretty much ruined the "traditional" NLE UI for me. Now anything that resembles FCP7, Premier, or Avid just feels slower and counter intuitive. And besides, who the heck needs EDL support anyways? Are people STILL exporting those to floppies?
For the jobs I do (feature films and commercials) we use EDLs on every project. Other types of work may not require them.
To floppies? No. Sending them out via email, on a thumb drive, or bundled on a HDD w/a bunch of other elements? Yes. Exporting them locally and using them as fail safes incase more advanced methods fail (and they do fail at times)? Yes.
Lethal
Ya. I was pretty surprised about that too. The iMacs don't have support either. So I guess it could be them waiting on refreshes for both.
Dear God! Sorry, not trying to be a jerk, but you should really get in the habit of working with XML. I do realize you might be limited by what the client wants, but chances are they could be (and SHOULD) using XML and not even realize it. It's just........well..............better.
XMLs getting corrupt or two programs working w/incompatible XML versions or having to go back to projects from years aog (even decades) are the types of situations I'm talking about. Sure, EDLs are old as dirt, but it's that sheer simplicity that helps make them so robust and universal.
EDL is like a handcrank emergency flashlight or swedish fire steel in your earthquake kit. Mains power is great until there's a blackout. Battery powered flashlights are great until the batteries die because the power has been out for so long. A handcrank flash light or fire steel are going to keep working nearly indefinitely.
It's part of my job to make things as robust and redundant as realistically possible because unforeseen things will happen but the show must go on. It's not that I love EDLs and I'm not going to use them every day (or even every month) but having them available as a last ditch failsafe has saved projects from disaster (or unnecessary amounts of work by hand) on more than one occasion.
Lethal
Good points. I guess I've just lucked out in not needing them. Hoping I never have to. Good talk, good talk
Yeah, EDL is getting to be one of those things that if everything goes right you'll never need to use it but that one time it saves you 10hrs of work makes you so glad you have it.Good points. I guess I've just lucked out in not needing them. Hoping I never have to. Good talk, good talk
No, we simply ran out of time in testing them. That's it. Please make a feature request to officially support the cards you want: http://www.adobe.com/go/wish