Re: Article: A Cautionary Tale for the FCP Switcher

Thanks very much for the insight. All of my projects are very similar in that they have almost every type of source. Documentaries, with legacy material fom Betacam, DV, DVCPro, even S-VHS on tape and all of the new digital formats, especially Sony EX, Nikon and Canon DSLR, etc. That is certainly why I was attracted to Adobe in the first place. Media management is a big weakness there. But it is critical that I am able to get stuff out of CS6 as ProRes HQ to other programs. My last project I did all of my selects, color correction and titles in CS 5.5, and exported to ProRes for a finish in Media 100 Suite 2.1 because I was familiar with the software, and because Nikon was broken in 5.5 (now fixed in 6). Sounds like that would have been a real problem with Avid and AMA. Ready now to tackle some smaller projects with CS6 more exclusively as it seems to behave much better than before. But interoperability using ProRes is still the key for me.

Jim Wiseman
Sony PMW-EX1,Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 2.1, Premiere Pro 5.5 and 6.0, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Avid MC, Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz 24Gb RAM GTX-285 120GB SSD, Macbook Pro 17" 2011 2.2 Ghz Quadcore i7 8Gb SSD, G5 Quadcore PCIe