[Herb Sevush]

[Oliver Peters] “There isn’t a single editor that does everything well.”

While it’s true that every NLE has it strengths and weaknesses, most of them make an attempt to be an “all-around” editor. The comparison to Smoke is the most apt – at this point Lightworks is a “niche” editor. It’s strengths seems to be in collaboration and long form organization and cutting. It is very week in any kind of effects and polishing, with no ability to use plug-ins to buttress is’t weaknesses and only XML to communicate with other video programs like AE.

[Oliver Peters] “Lightworks was originally built very tightly around Windows NT. Porting it to anything else is difficult.”

Not only difficult, but in my opinion a waste of resources. As insular as it is what advantage does it get from being on OSX? I can almost understand Linux, where it’s insularity is matched by the lack of popular programs and plug-ins that work with Linux. Making a turnkey Linux edit station has some appeal, but I just don’t see the need for them to be on OSX.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Now on Linux.”

Uhh, Jeremy, this “now” was news about 18 months ago.

[Jeremy Garchow] “OSX “coming soon”.”

They have been saying this for about a year.

Seriously, I’ve been a registered member of their web site for almost 2 years. I think they made a serious mistake in spending their very limited resources trying to be platform independent — better they improve the program on one platform then have it half-assed on three. As far as I can tell they have no plug-in architecture, which makes it very limited in any but an off-line scenario. Lightworks has lots of tools for feature editors, not so much for anyone else.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Maybe Apple doesn’t care because you, Bret, and I are the only people who do. Everyone else seems pleased.
So, what does that say about us??? ;)”

That your professional.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Chris Borjis] “Realtime 1080P unrendered playback of alpha channel (for keying qc)with ultrakey is fun!”

excellent!

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

Thanks Walter, good to know.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Alan Okey] “That’s easy – I would definitely take the tower. For me, the combination of dual CPUs, my investment in PCI cards, superior internal storage capacity and easily upgradable GPUs easily trump a small form factor and lower power consumption. I really don’t care about Thunderbolt.”

What he said.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Morten Ranmar] “We run Pr CC on the 2008 Mac Pro with GTX680. No real problems.”

Thanks for the info.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Joe Barta IV] “For basic editing we’ll have an Apple ProRes 422 clip with Chroma/Ultra key, a video clip for the background, Three-Way Color Corrector on both tracks, some scaling and repositioning for both, and a lower-third graphic on top, it all plays back in real time.
“

Thank you, sound good for me.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Tim Wilson] ” how’s your 2014 shaping up? How are you feeling about it?”

same as it ever was, same as it ever was …

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Shawn Miller] “Personally, I prefer wetransfer.com. I was a yousendit subscriber too, but I think their subscription fee is too high, compared to the costs and benefits of other services.”

My situation exactly. Very happy with WeTransfer.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf