Chris Harlan
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[Ian Bailey] “Try offering MC training and you’ll see it’s a true statement.
“Certainly not a true statement here in Hollywood, Pal.
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[David Roth Weiss] “Try to export an XML from FCP 10.1 and try to import that… You can’t, cuz XML Export from 10.1 is also DOA.”
Oh, oh.
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[Simon Ubsdell] “But then they’ve shown that they’re pretty good with reconfiguring the way language gets used …”
That would be the PR department’s own little magnetic timeline.
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[Craig Seeman] “I can’t help but believe they are expecting noteworthy changes in FCPX before then.
“As weeks become months and summer becomes fall, ever the optimist, you read book leaves as if they were tea leaves, and look to October. You have a tenacious faith. Hey, I hope you are right.
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[Ian Bailey] “That’s because you were too busy trying to explain why nobody wants to be trained in Avid any more.”
That’s a bit of a silly statement. Personally, I’m quite enjoying my journey back to MC. The improvements are terrific. I’m really looking forward to the release of v6. I believe it is coming in December. I wonder if we will have those FCP X “in a few weeks” APIs and “summer updates” by then.
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[Chris Conlee] “The shows I’m working on are all so security conscious that I don’t see them wanting to store any dailies online in the foreseeable future. We do use DAX once in a while, but even that is used sparingly.
Chris
“Yeah, I see some of that too. A safe to lock everything away at the end of the evening, and the notion that I might take a GRAID with me to do some work an abominable thought to the powers that be.
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I saw the Avid version at SMPTE last year. I thought it was pretty cool. I didn’t know it was delivering. I have not seen Quantel’s but would certainly be interested in doing so.
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Actually, I was off. Time was referencing Prime Focus, which does seem to use Aspera as I suggested, but for only slightly less big companies.
TIM: Prime Focus’s pricing is more for corporate customers (BIG corporate customers), but I would expect to see solutions that scale down in the very near future.
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[David Roth Weiss] “There was no mention of price Chris, so I’m guessing it’s go to be pretty darned expensive. Any idea how expensive?
“Oh, yes! As far as I know they are currently priced well out of mine and most mere mortals’ leagues. I think you need to do a huge volume business to make it worthwhile. But I believe there are now companies that are buying into their service and offering transfer to mortals like us. Tim Wilson posted a link to a company that seemed to be doing exactly that. I’ll see if I can find it.
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[David Roth Weiss] ” I’ve been using the MobileMe iDisk on all my Apple products”
Yeah, I’ve been using iDisk for client approval since just after it first came out. It has been a VERY handy pseudo-ftp site for me. I will truly miss it. I’ll start looking in March for a replacement, unless they do backtrack, which I kind of hope they will.
[David Roth Weiss] “However, it seems to me, to be truly useful, there is going to have to be either much great bandwidth on the Internet, or some type of very fast and automated down-rezing of video before it’s sent on its way to the Cloud.”
Some of the stuff that is happening with companies like Aspera are pretty impressive. One of my very large clients uses them to routinely deliver broadcast materials. Here’s a rundown on their data transfer:
https://www.asperasoft.com/en/technology/fasp_overview_1/fasp_technology_overview_1