Firstly thanks for the insight and posts NAB folk.
The biggest question for me are simple “under the hood” fundamentals like a proper render cache management system and a media management system at the least. You can have as much real time playback and background rendering as your like, but artists and plugin developers will always push the envelope on resources and you will always need to render and / or manage your incoming media from other programs like AE in a session.
Did anyone see evidence of an intelligent render cache management system or any clever media management tools?
Thanks,
Marcus.