Bruce A. Johnson

A 1981 graduate of the Boston University College of Communication, Bruce A. Johnson got his first job in broadcast television at WFTV, an ABC affiliate in Orlando, FL. While there, he rose through the ranks from teleprompter operator to videographer, editor, producer and director of many different types of programming. It was in the early 1980's that he bought his first computer - a Timex/Sinclair 1000 - a device he hated so much, he promptly exchanged it for an Atari 400. But the bug had bitten hard.

In 1987, Johnson joined Wisconsin Public Television in Madison as a videographer/editor, and still works there to the present day. His responsibilities have grown, however, and now include research and presentations on the issues surrounding the digital television transition, new consumer technology and the use of public television spectrum in homeland security. He freelances through his company Painted Post MultiMedia, and has written extensively for magazines including DV and Studio Monthly.
Saturday, August 21, 2010

AdobeCS5 and nVidia:  First Impressions Part 3

It Ain’t All Skittles And Beer…

Well, I’ve been editing with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 and the nVidia Quadro CUDA video card for about six months now, and it has been an interesting ride.  You can check out my starting impressions in blog posts here, here and here.  But what’s the latest?

I recently had one of those Tevye “Fiddler On The Roof” moments - you know, when he sings “Sunrise, Sunset” and weeps about how quickly his children grow up?  Well, the summer of 2010 has been like that for me.  It seems like yesterday that I was sliding the nVidia card into my fairly-new HP z800 eight-core Xeon edit workstation.  Blink twice and it is the end of August.  To say this has been a busy summer of editing is a gross understatement.  I’ve shot and edited around 25 videos of varying length for the craft industry, did multi-cam shoots and edits for several concerts, did a commercial for a Vermont bed & breakfast and managed to pack in a a wedding shoot and edit to boot.  I would love to say that the experience was flawless…but I can’t.  I’ve had almost as many crashes with Premiere CS5 as I did when I was running CS4 with what was usually a fairly buggy Matrox RT.X2 card. 

Two of my larger projects consisted of lots of HDV footage that was shared between several different timelines.  One of the projects had over 300 different HDV clips.  If you have edited with Premiere for long, I’m sure you had a project that, when loading, just grinds to a halt.  In this case, what seemed to be the offending clip was always a Quicktime .MOV file, and when you load up 300+ clips and the machine freezes at “12 clips remaining” to load, it’ll make you pull your hair out.  Interestingly, even shiny-new CS5 still offers the workaround that it’s predecessors did:


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