[Gary Huff]

[Mitch Ives] “Your views on Capitalism are precisely what I would expect from someone who has been through the reeducation camps we call public schools these days.”

You might want to tone down the rhetoric because it makes you look very foolish. And this is coming from someone who didn’t go through the public school system.

[Gary Huff]

[Daniel Peterson] “Truth be told… I was told by a friend that a site without a ‘business plan’ is probably a waste of time”

I believe any attempt to start a business from a simple poll result is a waste of time.

[Gary Huff]

[Bret Williams] “You’d think you’d know how to spell Premiere by now.”

But the ads at the bottom of the page are ROCK-SOLID!

[Gary Huff]

[Daniel Peterson] “So basically, the website is evolving (still in Beta) from my personal challenge of deciding what NLE to purchase and focus on… as the amount of time (I’m sure you can appreciate) spent mastering the software over the years is massive.”

But really it’s not. The amount of time that is heavy is learning a NLE for the very first time. After that, if you cannot easily translate your knowledge over to what is pretty similar across the board for all of them, then you’re initial attempt did not actually lay a foundation, but instead was focused on the minutiae of a particular package.

It took me two projects, both short form, edited in FCPX for me to grasp it. It took me two because the version of FCPX at the time (either 10.0.5 or 10.0.6) wasn’t up to the task for what I wanted to do (green frame bug was one killer). However, once 10.0.9 rolled out, and now (especially) 10.1, I am up and running and routinely switch back and fourth between FCPX and Premiere CC, with the only casualty being the V and A keyboard shortcuts that I occasionally get mixed up.

[Daniel Peterson] “The main challenge I found was that there are a myriad of opinions but lack of data,

Lack of data? Have you even looked into the subforums on here of different NLEs? Seems like some decent activity in most of them. Otherwise, all you’re talking about is a simple poll result, which is hardly helpful.

[Daniel Peterson] so if this gains some data and helps others gain more information about who uses what NLE’s, than I believe it will be a helpful resource.”

Again, should this be a popularity constest? Let’s say that most camera operators prefer FCPX. Is that reason enough for a camera operator to come to the site and say, “Hey, I need to buy FCPX!” even if, all things considered, they might rather work in Premiere?

[Gary Huff]

Wouldn’t your time be better spent doing a project in each NLE you have available to you and then deciding which one you personally like best?

I fail to see how this survey translates into a “resource”. I don’t see, say, a Vegas user deciding to switch to Mac just to use FCPX because it has a high percentage on some web survey.

[Gary Huff]

[TImothy Auld] “It’s an investment in where the technology is going. How do you not see that?”

I think you are using those words in a way that may not accurately address what you’re trying to say.

What do you mean “investment”? Learning the software? If you feel that the software needs an “investment” of learning time, then you should buy it. Unless $300 is too much for you to spend to do that. If you think the price is the investment, well, that can’t be it because you were smarmy about my point on that, right?

What do you mean by “technology is going”? That everything is going to the Mac OS? That everything is going to the magnetic timeline? What explicitly? 4K? FCPX isn’t the only NLE that can work with 4K.

[Gary Huff]

Then don’t buy it. You’re the one talking 5 year business plans. Why? You act like it’s an investment.

[Gary Huff]

[TImothy Auld] “I have forgotten more about organization than you will ever know,”

Every single time someone has uttered this to me, it has been complete b.s.

[Gary Huff]

[TImothy Auld] “Why, in the name of all that’s Holy, should I trust Apple for the next six months, let alone the next five years?”

What are you saying exactly? If $300 is make it or break it to you, then don’t spend the money. Stick with what you have. Simple as that.

[Gary Huff]

[tony west] “When I think about how many stations and multi million dollar remote trucks I do sports out of that would have to toss their cameras out, I feel like it’s gonna be a while for the networks.”

I do feel that 4K has a place in sports, with all the gee-whiz video effects they do, having a 4K origination from the camera to do 60p and do a crisp digital zoom in on the action (if outputting 720p60 or even 1080), that might be something that starts replacing those cameras with 4K equivalents.

Of course, getting 4K 60p in the first place requires a helluva lot of bandwidth.