[Dan Hemmington]

Hi All thanks for your replies so far. Avid and Premiere deinitely seem like the forerunners.

[Chris Conlee] “I’m not trying to be disagreeable, but you make it sound like FCP invented those capabilities or something. “

Sorry Chris I may have not made myself clear. FCP is what I learnt on I just wan’t to enquire how good the others where at finishing, ie do they have the same grading/audio editing support. Thanks for your reply.

Does anyone know much about lightworks? Due to be released soon as open source. Maybe leaving the fate of software in the hands of the editing community is the best way to prevent editors being abandoned in this way?

By the way I hope now of this comes across as moaning, apple don’t owe me anything – fair enough. Just trying to focus on which is the best software route to take next.

Very interested to see what happens with the release of MC6, Avid could really do a lot of good with this, as previously mentioned the addition of card support would be a great start.

Thanks
Dan

[Dan Hemmington]

Thanks for your reply Michael and for setting me straight. That all makes sense I just wanted to check I wasn\\\’t missing a trick.

Cheers
Dan

[Dan Hemmington]

Thanks for all the responses guys really really appreciated. I am glad I posted here sooner rather than latter. Thanks especially Bob for my wake up call. I have learnt a lot already looking into this and was really looking forward to speccing these suites, yet the reality is I am obviously out of my depth.

Thanks again Bob for the recommendation of Harris, I read the article you linked to and checked out their website…. WOW… welcome to the world of high end!

Just to reiterate all 8 edit suites would be independent with no shared content, no transmission or news rooms. Mainly documentaries. The “idea” is that these would be one man HD suites – offline to delivery running FCS3.

The region itself is in a safe part of the middle east. Don’t get me wrong Harris appear to be top dollar but I got the impression from what I read that they build entire broadcast networks, suddenly my 8 edit suites started to look a little small fry… just really wanted to check if anybody knew/could recommend any freelance contractors that work international or in this region.

Going off on a tangent but is FCS3 really up to all of this? I have seen some great stuff graded on Color, there’s a fantastic looking Jaguar commercial on the Apple website, I get the impression AE is far superior to Motion, though nothing compared to Flame. I must admit haven’t heard about Sound track pro being used professionally much. Also I am semi proficient at FCP but are there many operators out there that are happy to cut,grade and mix etc?

Again thanks in advance if anyone has the time to reply.

Dan

[Dan Hemmington]

Thanks Mike, yes your right, I did mean to say Kona3 – good job you reminded me…