Gav Bott
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Is the standard cable TV model though right?
You pay for access and get advertised to.
It’s something that the consumer has lived with for ages – no wonder it’s showing up in the replacement really.
Not suggesting you have to like it or anything of course.The Brit in Brisbane
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A position/argument on a downstream effect of piracy where actual physical loss can/could/might be found:
Tax able profits mitigated against the value of pirated product.Company has a product that is successful in sales and also very heavily pirated. They are able to argue the level of piracy as a measurable $ amount and are allowed to mitigate their tax bill as a % of that amount as a loss.
The society that would have benefited from that tax amount now have less $’s.
The tin foil hat wearing members of teh internets have even proposed this as a reason why a company might allow/encourage piracy to improve their taxable situation.
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The “good” content that’s there is like the comparison illustrations of human presence on the planet over time – a big model of a lighthouse with a hair on top that indicate the interesting bit.
How many hours of content are uploaded per day? (72 hours per minute according to Mr. YouTube) How much of it might as well be the honking of geese over pictures of cats? The bit you are picking as a ‘new” model is the hair on the top of the lighthouse – it’s also not what can be called new in terms of online evolution, in terms of all of human visual communication maybe, but there has been lots and lots of discussion on this for a good few years.
The Brit in Brisbane
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In sports – it’s the ones that have trained, worked, practiced, and generally done more that tend to look “lucky”.
The Brit in Brisbane
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“The people who run Apple don’t know diddly about the law.”
I would think they expect their lawyers to though, and they were the ones in court – and being the biggest company (or top 3) in the universe I’m going to say – I bet they didn’t come cheap.
And they got tucked up within 2 minutes.
Saying that the company leaders don’t know about the law is one thing – but when they speak to their lawyers the advice might be “Hey, this one is shakey at best – give the guy a laptop, a amile and walk away.”
Self preservation is the opposite of what kicked in here.
The Brit in Brisbane
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“It might be a bit more work for third parties to stay current”
This is where the fear kicks in for me – annual OS changes that effect thrid party aps, but that they can’t realistically charge for – as it’s only “making it actually work”.
This is a weakness in the model of building the foundation ap, creating the space for the 3rd parties to make it sing – how do they survive and keep your vital aps up to date unless they can get an income stream in?
The Brit in Brisbane
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Do the post zooms on their file to show the frames they need to size to and why you can’t use what they have sent.
Beam it over with a “can you get these shots with this frame” plea – showing exactly the shots you need and why can’t hurt.
Ta
Gav
The Brit in Brisbane
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Don’t oversell & then under deliver…….
The poor reaction comes from earlier information, expectations and leaks reflecting against what the end package actually is.
Which I don’t think you can attach to AVID today, bitching about that price point/feature set is just dumb, and I bet doesn’t come from a single pre-existing AVID user.
But Canon & Red maybe? Or at least “different deliver” to what you’ve been over selling……
Gav
The Brit in Brisbane
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Hi Bill,
Am software/hardware agnostic. In terms of being mobile I don’t think it matters at all – don’t feel the need to run top end hardware to be able to be mobile (always nice, budget dependant as always) – cut the cloth, make it fit and all that. FCP, ADOBE, VEGAS – Vegas is so light, for some jobs on a laptop it really is a no-brainer for us.
Good laptop of whatever your preferred reliable flavour, the best studio cans you can afford, a couple of external 1 terra drives, and the lightest software set you can use to get the job done. Card recording makes this easy, P2, DSLR’s, whatever – loading onto the system as they fill up & are swapped out, during lunch, etc. Archiving (not “real” archiving of course) to externals while shooting more etc.
All the mobile work we do is based on still having “a home” to return to or send things to/from – for heavy lifting and storage. So not “end to end” in the truest sense, and we still do lots of non-mobile work as well, so it’s some jobs, some of the time – but bringing elements of the studio out on the road is the norm.
Does everything get done this way? No, but lots of projects can get the majority of the decision making and grunt work pushed through out of the studio. To be honest I pretty much assume if I think about it for a bit – just about anything (audio is often the exception) can come out of the studio for us – not all things are equal for everyone of course.
Started with FCP on books, bringing the edit to clients/execs for reviews and rapid small changes. Now it’s checking chroma matts in the studio and editing on the fly post shoot for script editing and structure – and as you found, delivering low complexity finished jobs very rapidly, on site. Web distributed presenter piece or similar? Don’t even think about needing a studio.
As far as delivery goes – show it on screen right there, get the OK and then go back to base to finish off. Delivering large files isn’t something we’ve solved (mobile uploads are painful so far), unless on site and can deliver a drive or DVD burn. Returning to base to create deliverables is just fine – having a still space to review and finish off is perfect for that stage of the job.
The Brit in Brisbane
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“IMO, we stand on the threshold of a working environment that I think is being deconstructed into a more mobile, more distributed model.”
This already happened. 5 years ago.
For some of us at least.
The Brit in Brisbane
The Pomme in Production – Brisbane Australia.