[Herb Sevush]

By old timers I meant someone who remembers CP/M, the Commodore 64, the Amiga and Apple IIs with audio cassette tape drives.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[Herb Sevush]

Bogesian –

well that was an interesting response that had nothing whatsoever to do with this thread. Nobody mentioned costs, or was upset in the least with the idea of upgrades. The conversation was between a true believer who thinks that it’s next to original sin to still complain about FCP when it is by far the cost/value champion of NLE’s, and other older and perhaps wiser heads who think that even though something is great, it might still be made greater. I am, as you might guess, amongst that second group.

My whine is that I truly appreciate the great value that FC Studio affords and yet …

I personally would give back “Color” for a capture window that could handle capturing over time code breaks, and I would gladly trade in the smoothcam feature for a media manager that could actually manage the media. From what I hear the new version has addressed the need to be able to export Time Code, so I can scratch that off my list. For me the little things that make day to day editing workflow actually flow are much more valuable than new gee whiz features – with the exception of things like the “open time line” which is a godsend. Now if they could just make an “undo history” feature and get rid of the bug whereby muting a video track destroys all of the sequences renders, we would have something to celebrate.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[Herb Sevush]

Kev –

I went to their website and saw a lot of different options. Can you tell me which option (and what price, if it differed from the listed ones) you’re talking about.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[Herb Sevush]

Peter –

iSCSI might be the way to go for the future – but if I have to make a financial commitment in the near future – next 6 months – do you think it will be viable in that time frame?

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[Herb Sevush]

So it seems to me your saying that e-SATA raids are not the way to go – Fibre Channel is still required. I say this as an owner of both Medea and X-Raid fibre channel arrays who is looking to expand and was considering E-Sata raids as an option.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[Herb Sevush]

For a “Pro” app there are way to many work-arounds needed to create a proper re-capture workflow in FCP, especially compared to other NLE’s. The media manager is still a joke — on us. Software is supposed to be designed to work for you, not to be worked around. Re-capturing a sequence should not require anything other than a trip to the media manager. As it is now, it is still a media mangler.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[Herb Sevush]

Walter –

“Nothing puts my mind at rest until I know it can work day to day like our old Med

[Herb Sevush]

E-mail me off-line and I’ll send you a standard Excel invoice template that some freelance editors use at my shop.

h.sevush@gmail.com

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[Herb Sevush]

westderric12 –

Pardon me for suggesting the obvious, but this is why they invented live switching. Do a live switch, and if you want, iso record your cameras to tape as well. When you’re cutting down your show, if you need a particular shot from an angle you don’t have on the switched master, you need only digitize those shots. Otherwise, stick with the switched master.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[Herb Sevush]

Thanks. That solved it.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions