[Gary Huff]

[tony west] “I don’t think it does a good enough job for me (yet) and I would rather use something like Izotope.”

I have used both and iZotope is definitely better.

[Gary Huff]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Every Thunderbolt component I buy will work on any new Mac I buy, no matter if it is desktop, portable, or somewhere in between.”

I do admit that’s a bonus.

[Gary Huff]

[tony west] “To have a Hall of Fame’r in your peer group give you that kind of nod, and your co-workers come up to you and say “dude, that was f ing awesome””

Which has absolutely zero to do with FCPX, MC, or Premiere. None of those is going to get you a single half-step closer to achieving that feeling.

[Gary Huff]

[Dave Gage] “I’ll live with the FW800 and the “crashy” eSATA card a while longer for backups”

Are you using a generic eSATA card with the Sonnet drivers?

[Gary Huff]

[Dave Gage] ”
I tried every permutation I could think of, but if I didn’t re-boot after using the eSATA card, it would ultimately hard crash within a day. Interesting, so you’re not using the Sonnet driver. I think Jeremy or someone else said or implied that that’s what is needed to make it actually “hot-swappable” like FireWire.”

There might be a model that requires a driver, but the Tempo Pro requires no drivers, and supports multiple disks in a JBOD setup. Additionally, it’s SATA III, which may be overkill for ExpressCard, but should work in the Echo Pro via Thunderbolt just fine.

[Dave Gage] “There’s a bunch of different Sonnet Echo Express’s at BH. Is this the one you’re referring to:
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/860811-REG/Sonnet_ECHOPRO_E34_Echo_Pr...”

That’s exactly the one you want. There’s a plain ‘ole “Echo Express” (no Pro), but it’s 5Gbps vs 2.5Gbps (Pro vs Non-Pro).

[Gary Huff]

[Jeremy Garchow] “A MacPro does not magically run itself with nothing plugged in to it. It’s time to get over it.”

Except now all your internal storage is external, your adapter for that Fibre connection is now external, requiring both a Thunderbolt cable and a Fibre cable, DVI/SDI cables are now plugged into an external box with it’s own Thunderbolt cable as well.

So yeah, there’s nothing to it.

[Gary Huff]

[Lance Moody] “Yeah, because the current Mac Pros all have Blu-Ray and don’t need to be plugged in”

Seriously? This is your response?

[Gary Huff]

[tony west] “Somebody can use AE but not Fx Factory? What difference does it really make?”

FX Factory is not a template, nor is After Effects. Unless you meant something completely different when you said, “template”. Did you mean “plugin that makes effects easier to use” or “pre-packaged motion graphic template a la Digital Juice”. If the latter, then your comparison is woefully mismatched.

[tony west] “Yet there it was on air on the evening news.”

Remind me again on which direction ratings are going for local news programs?

And, yet again, a second comparison that doesn’t match up. News happens when it happens. You get no do-overs. So if some video of a single instance news event is completely botched, well, that’s all you got. Unless you’re talking about some reporters’ standup. That would be inexcusable.

Seriously, Tony, it strikes me that your “If A, than B” needs a lot of work.

“[I]f you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce, they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.”

[Gary Huff]

[Steve Connor] “At some point I hope people will realise that it isn’t.”

I share in that hope as well. For me personally, as a viewer, if you put up an embarrassingly amateurish video, then I wonder where else your business chose to cut corners as well.

[Gary Huff]

[Dave Gage] “Some people never learn…”

Count me as one of those. I “stay current” often, and have yet to be burned like that. Either development has gotten better (though I did wait almost a year to move up to Mountain Lion) or I’m simply living on borrowed time!