Gary Taylor
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Over the years I have almost always refused to give my source materials to customers under these circumstances. I have found that it has not been in my best interest to do business with those who wanted to aquire my source code and techniques without paying extra for it. On the rare occasions when I have yielded I have always regretted it in the end.
As a producer I do sometimes contract with others to deliver a work for hire. Usually this involves using their work product to produce something that requires technical skills they don’t have, and it is always agreed upon in advance. Even then I almost never ask for project files, just the raw assets. Because this agreed upon in the original contract, it up to the creative professional to price work with these assumptions in mind.
For a customer to ask for this after a production is complete is quite presumptuous. Depending upon what you are doing you might find yourself competing against your own work at some future date. And to make matters worse it also likely that customers who would do this are the same ones who played hardball to get you to lower your rate in the beginning.
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Hi Lance,
When you do you mean when you say the Cineform codecs far surpass anything available on the Mac? Are you saying that when footage captured is over HD-SDI that the Cineform footage is somehow better than the same footage captured to a 10 bit uncompressed codec in Final Cut, or are you comparing workflows? I have heard and seen quite a few good things about the Cineform codecs but I have never heard anyone say it was somehow better than 10 bit uncompressed in quality.
Thanks,
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Hi SpecialCase,
I was wondering if you have had a chance to compare the 7800GT with the 6800 Ultra when working with floating point performance? I am interesting in how fast OpenEXR files are processed. Thanks for any info you have!
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Wow, what a deal! Apple is obviously serious about market share.
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Thanks for testing the card Bob. I am looking forward to hearing your take on it.
Thanks,
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I agree with Walter. Yesterdays conference makes me very excited about where Apple is headed. Any professional that uses computers should know that new computers come all the time, and just because something new comes along that is faster it doesn’t mean what you had before is obsolete.
In this case you REALLY had to have you head in the sand not to see this coming. This has been in the news everywhere for months. I mainly operate in the PC world and I can tell you that PC vendors really didn’t start talking about their Core Duo systems until after the CES show last week. They couldn’t really talk about their systems until Intel released them and of course just like Apple they didn’t want you to stop buying the older systems. Apple is not the bad guy here.
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Even there I would like to see a model with more than one ExpressCard slot. I hope they release models with FW800 and two ExpressCard slots. FW800 is great because you don’t have to buy a card to make it work well. I’ll bet it wouldn’t cost them more than 50 bucks to add it and that would save us a couple of hundred.
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It looks like a great machine but it apparently doesn’t have Firewire 800. I wonder why Apple would drop that as a feature?
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I am also looking to buy one of the new Macs. What has Apple’s turn around time been when you guys have problems with your desktops in the past?
Thanks,
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Hi Walter,
Please keep us posted on how this unit performs. I am thinking about getting one myself.
Thanks,
Gary