[Herb Sevush]

[Ryan Holmes] “My experience has been that Blackmagic has a much higher failure rate than the other companies listed above.”

I have owned several Blackmagic i/o cards and converter boxes over the past 10 years and have never regretted those decisions. They have very limited costumer support compared to AJA for instance, but I have never had any equipment failures.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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[Herb Sevush]

[Jeremy Garchow] “The 844/x was pushed off the cliff about a year later.”

I saw the 844/x demo at NAB and was wowed by it as well. I believe it was their investment in the 844/x that pushed the whole company off the cliff. From what I understood they made a huge research investment in it and came up empty as newer computers kept getting faster and the need for specialized rendering platforms disappeared.

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

[Herb Sevush]

It’s interesting to see where Blackmagic is going – as these individual components were released over the last few years it all seemed so helter skelter – but now it’s obvious that this was the plan all along, to provide a complete end-to-end studio production system. Great article Bob.

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

[Herb Sevush]

[Scott Cumbo] ” I’ve been thinking about pushing to chance over to Premiere and wanted other peoples take on what the advantages are to switching.”

Along with everybody else’s comments about handling most video codecs natively and ability to use the speed of modern GPU’s it’s in handling audio that PPro shines. It’s integration with Audition allows for speedy and effective audio repair that is beyond anything you can do in FCP7, and the track mixer is also a delight and way ahead of anything in Legacy.

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

[Herb Sevush]

[Hasan Khurshid] “There is no keyboard shortcut for it?”

If you make a transition the “default” in the effects window you can then apply it with the keyboard shortcut “Shift-D.” You can apply the effect to as many clip transitions as you want by selecting them first, then hitting “Shift-D.”

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

[Herb Sevush]

Thank you Steve. Very cathartic.

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 –

Just signed on to Spotify. With the ability to upload my own music, it shouldn’t take long to fill in the missing holes in their library. Thanks for the tip. When you download for offline listening, what do you download too – phone, digital player, ipad?

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

[Herb Sevush]

[Steve Connor] “So presumably you own ALL your music on CD or vinyl?”

No, that was my mistake. I’ve downloaded a lot of material on Itunes and now I’m enslaved to a company that no longer cares about me as a consumer – (I’m not a 15 year old girl and no longer fit in their marketing plans.) The half of my collection that is on CD is totally available to me. It’s the Apple half that is screwing me. And I will be spending a lot of money and time re-purchasing my music on CD so that this won’t happen in the future.

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] “Or are you ONLY consuming media you buy?”

Movies and music are not comparable items. I’ve watched “The Wire” series about 4 times, I’ve listened to Jumpin Jack Flash 4 hundred times (at least.) Most movies and TV I’m quite content with renting. Music I need to own. I need to know that if the apocalypse comes, as long as I can find electricity, I can listen to Otis Redding. When the juice goes, so do I.

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] ” if I could buy full-size album covers and associated goodies without the albums in them, I would.”

true that.

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