@Mike Garrick

So 3 questions .....
1) Just how big is the that learning curve with mastering effects smoke is known for ?

For straight editing, probably 10 minutes. This was designed for FCP / Avid / Adobe editors. It makes sense when you see it. The FX room might take a little getting used to, but if you use After Effects now, you'll pick it up pretty darn quickly. I could not believe how fast he created a pretty complex composite just slapping nodes into place and moving them around to change the appearance.

I'm thinking in a few days you'll be pretty darn comfortable with this. Remember, free beta download in June.

2) Does this software finally kill "roundtripping" ?

Yes and no. All of the tools are in the app to go end to end, start to finish on a project. Not sure on the audio tools as I mentioned in the previous answer.

But Ingest, Edit, Visual Effects, Output, Archive is all handed within the app. And it appears to have a very solid media management system in place. So as long as you stay within Smoke, you stay in one app with several different interfaces to do the individual tasks and everything revolves around your basic timeline UI.

However, it is designed to easily interface with other apps via XML or OMF so you can go to Resolve and ProTools for example.


3) I'm still running on a high powered 3 year old Mac Pro handling 64 bit processing will this software run on it ?

Probably and you'll know for sure when you download the Beta and install it. Today's demo was on an iMac. Specs call for an iMac and MacBook Pro.

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