[Dermot Shane]

Mangus;

I run Avid DS on w7 it has had RED support as long as anyone has, so the lack of RED/ Alexa etc is not a real concern, only fears that reality proves to be groundless…

A w7 -or- a more cost efficent Linux version would my choice, the fear i have is the VERY real posssibility that the MacPro line gets “X”‘d… everything is pointing to that, making BMD’s investment in porting to OSX and developing XML support a massive waste of resources, and my investment in a MacPro a truly stupid decision leading to a dead end

[Dermot Shane]

I’ve done two shows with F3 media..

The F3 records the same media as the existing EX1/3, and they are useable directly in Media Composer with AMA, and then consolidated and transcoded to MXF wrapped DnxHD175x for online and grade.

From FCS we got media managed ProRezHq, but i think the FCS crew had to make proxie Qt’s and then re-conform or something like that.. not sure as i was at the end of the pipeline

The Avid workflow seems vastly more elegant, but both got decent images into my box.. both showed compression artifacts when pushing secondaries hard(ish)

Next time i hope they use an external HD recorder and avoid the compression of the internal recorder.

d