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[Joseph W. Bourke] “but old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative”
I’m a huge fan of old age. HUGE.
I’m just saying that working with consumer H.264 in a pro context might take years off your life.
Is it worth $999 to buy a BMD camera, HAND it to your client, say “Use this” to buy a longer, happier life? Perhaps so. 🙂
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Note that Flow is alive and well and living at EditShare. Lots of new stuff about it this week at NAB. It’s currently more focused on asset management, with some nifty new features like ingest and logging…but there are indeed a number of project tracking and management tools too.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “[Shawn Miller] “we may be seeing the end of h.264 cameras for professionals.”
Can I somehow, hold you to this statement?”
Might be easier to just buy the client the camera for $999 and be glad for not having the years taken off your life by having to wrangle straight H.264.
Saving years taken off your life is as good as earning years added to your life, right?
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[Shawn Miller] “you’re going to see a lot of nicely graded cat videos on YouTube. ;)”
Too true! “
If anybody tried to make the case that the most common use for the Vision Research Phantom HD camera is NOT super slo-mo cat video, I’d laugh in their faces. Needless to say, nobody is trying to make that case.
My theory is that the first BMD camera was running late because of sensor supply issues. I wonder if that’s the one part of the supply chain that was beyond their control? And now that the logjam is busted, they can more reliably MEAN July when they SAY July.
All supposition. I assure you that nobody in the industry tells me anything important. LOL
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[Craig Seeman] “Might have created a little bit of buzz.”
I happen to know that the PR people for Blackmagic work like demons…but really, is there an easier job in the industry than trying to build buzz for Blackmagic? LOL
I’m just disappointed that Blackmagic didn’t show the transporter that Grant personally demoed to us in December. Maybe for IBC. Heck, maybe they’ll TRAVEL to IBC using the transporter.
That really is about the only thing that could create more buzz for them.
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[Marcus Moore] “Better to not have shined a light on yourself at all when you don’t have anything to say.”
That’s not how it works. It’s the opposite. Apple didn’t talk to anybody for years because they didn’t have to. Everybody on the freaking planet was falling over themselves to give their perspective on Apple, no matter who they had to crush to do it.
And I thank each and every one of you. LOL
But many of the people covering this space have never spoken to anyone at Apple before. A nice, non-hostile briefing affirming that they’re staying the course, continuing to add pro features with a few specifics sprinkled in — look for some warm, if not overly enthusiastic coverage, to keep people talking about Apple during the rest of the hub-bub, and leave some writers feeling just a little bit better about Apple caring about THEM too.
Do notice, though, that “we’re staying the course, things will be getting better” has been a theme for a lot of people. Maxon built an entire NAB campaign around enhanced integration between C4D and AE. They’ve had some integration since January 2003. So what are the new integration features? Dunno. Th press release just “The best is yet to come!” Yes, the quote from Maxon’s CEO had an exclamation point.
No disrespect. You’ll certainly see quite a few similar announcements from other companies. Integration is worth talking about, even if there’s nothing to show right this second. More people SHOULD be publicly talking about partners.
This, like Apple, is exactly what you do when you don’t have anything. Talk to people. Stay in the news cycle. Remind people that you’re there — I’d sure forgotten about Maxon, hadn’t you? –and that there might be something coming soon. “Watch this space” IS an actual announcement.
Certainly for Apple, who has taken their lumps for radio silence.
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It’s the horseshoe bar, right inside the front door. I haven’t been there in years, but it’s between the front desk and the door to The Joint, right in the middle of the room.
I don’t think you’ll have any trouble finding it.
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[Mark Suszko] “could that happen before NAB gets in full swing?”
I honestly don’t know. The press release deluge has already begun on the backside. They’re not live until the show opens of course, but we’re loadin’ ’em in.
Drop me a note offline, though. I’d definitely like to see it happen.
[Mark Suszko] “Tim, you have killed my weekend, with the Rundgren comment, darn you. “
Yeah, me too. I’ve been watching a couple of the clips more than once already. 🙂
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[Todd Terry] “It’s pretty good (and my era of music).”
I think it’s a gas. Guys in their 40s and up will be amply rewarded for the time they spend looking for the episode featuring Todd Rundgren. 🙂
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If by Cold Mountain Moment you mean “the film with a hugely impractical workflow requiring the massive efforts of an international team, a workflow so bizarrely complicated that it took an entire book to explain how they crawled over the software’s glaring shortcomings,” then, well, we’ll have to wait and see. LOL
But probably not. Joel & Ethan’s film may be analogous in that it’s the first high-profile feature cut by an A-list director(s), but I predict that the workflow will be so much smoother as to be not even vaguely comparable to that previous ordeal. We may even need to start referring to “The Coen Moment.” Maybe “The ‘Premiere Pro Abides’ Moment.”