[Kevin Downer]

The colour one has been coined the “Pleasantville” effect. Here’s a web tutorial for an AVID system:

https://www.geniusdv.com/avid-pleasantville.php

Chances are, alot of the effects you are seeing are done with something like a Discreet Fire, SGO Mistika, etc. effects box. The music video is the bread & butter of the boutique effects house. NLE systems are best at creating the offline edit to be conformed for a higher-end effects session.

You might find some tutorials on Google for After Effects or Combustion which might be fun.

As an up and comer though, try to do something original and different that you thought up. It’s how one gets noticed from the crowd of copycats eh? 🙂

[Kevin Downer]

AVID should update their Symphony Nitris PDF product brochure on their website. The image used for the system looks like a terrible Photoshop hack job. Shoot the PR person who let that one get out the door.

FCP’s multi-cam looks really robust and the package Studio is really quite something. AVID should be worried as the former lack of it in FCP was one of the big reasons to use an AVID system, Now that reason is gone.

I never want to see another AVID Pizza Box again. The totally outdated PInnacle hardware they kept packaging with their Symphony and its crappy soft key problems cost me a very lucrative job on a series a while back. The “great editing platform, bad graphics potential” mantra is getting really tiresome. Hopefully, this will drastically improve.

I thought the Velocity looked like a winning combination. Was it the interface that did not sell you Grinner? I was kind of hoping it would be good enough to buy into for a PC start to finishing platform.

S!