[Mel Matsuoka]

I too am a bit annoyed by the new Resolve Lite, because it will, in fact, destroy a lot of the perceived value of hiring someone who has invested in a full blown Resolve system.

But to keep things in perspective, the type of client who would thumb their nose at paying full rates for a “real” Resolve artist because they think the free version of Resolve is now good enough that they can now do it themselves, or they can hire some kid who lives in his parent’s basement to do it, is probably not the type of client you want to build a business on–from both a financial and personal standpoint.

It’s not 1989 anymore. The “democratization of tools” has made obsolete the old-school post-production business model of being hired solely for the sexiness of your gear. The ability for every shmuck with a Macbook Pro to now call themselves a “colorist” because they have Resolve Lite and watched a few Lynda.com or CreativeCow tutorial videos makes it all the more important nowadays to be able to market the value of your services based on talent, experience and professionalism, and not simply your investment in the tools.

Switching “platforms” simply because Resolve Lite 8.1.1 removes 90% of the elite-factor of your existing Resolve investment is ridiculous. Resolve does not stop being a kick-ass, truly professional grading tool just because “civilians” can now get most of it’s features for free.

Just like having TextEdit on your Mac does not make you a professional writer, Resolve Lite will not make untalented “colorists” any more talented than they already are. You only have to worry about the “industry perception” of it if your business-model is reliant on selling hype over true talent.

I very much doubt guys like Stefan Sonnenfeld are losing much sleep over this.

[Mel Matsuoka]

Perfect timing! This announcement removes all the jealousy I have for all my friends who are getting the iPhone 4S today!

[Mel Matsuoka]

Holy crap, thank you!

Works good enough for me 🙂

[Mel Matsuoka]

It’s not any of those, actually. The problem only seems to be happening on a clip that has the speed change in it. It’s the only version in the versions stack, too.

[Mel Matsuoka]

What does this have to do with Decklink products?

[Mel Matsuoka]

[Sean ONeil] “Have you disabled video desktop?”

Yes.

[Mel Matsuoka]

Wow, this looks awesome!

Any possibility of porrting this over to Mac OS X? (or releasing the sourcecode so a motivated OSX coder could port it for you?)

[Mel Matsuoka]

I had the same crash-on-startup issue on my Macbook Pro. I figured out that it was Soundflower that was causing Soundbooth to crash. Once I removed it, everything worked fine.

Seems like a nice first step to having a full-fledged Mac port of Audition, which is an app that is sorely needed on the platform.

I’m not impressed with the speed of the app, though. It takes 10 minutes to save out a 2 1/2 hour, mono AIFF file in SoundBooth, whereas the same file takes only 2 minutes to save in SoundForge 8, running under Parallels. There’s also a significant lag between hitting “play” and actually having the playhead engage.

[Mel Matsuoka]

[Bob Vick] “At times I tend to have several projects and timelines open at the same time. Is there a way to color the tabs above the timeline window to reflect the different projects?”

This is actually a really great feature request that I had never thought of before…You might want to send that in to Apple’s feedback line.

[Mel Matsuoka]

[Sean ONeil] I trusted LaCie to have the kind of foresight needed to prevent their customers from making potential grave mistakes.

This is really the crux of the issue.

It’s one thing for a user to not RTFM for a particular product, and then complain that they can’t figure out how to use it. It’s quite another to expect them to be fully aware of the potentially irreversable electrical damage that can be caused by plugging in an adapter for a similar product from the same manufacturer, *and* which are physically compatible with each other. That’s just BAD DESIGN on the manufacturer’s part, and it’s really not Sean’s fault for making the mistake that he did. At the very least, the enclosure should have been designed so that the power circuitry of the enclosure itself fries *itself* before it ever has a chance to torch the drive electronics.

Read the (wonderful) book by Don Norman, “The Design of Everyday Things“, if you’re not convinced that it’s the fault of the designer, *not* the user, if your product isn’t intuitive or if they use the product in a manner that you didn’t originally intend.

Speaking as someone who has had 2 different Lacie d2’s spontaneously fail, well before thier MTBF, and as an unsolicited techsupport person for several other post-houses in my town who have *also* experienced higher than normal failures of Lacie drives, I have to echo the concerns of others who don’t have very high confidence in the reliability of Lacie’s products.

Since my last Lacie drive croaked (which happened only a few weeks after another colleague of mine had her d2 drive fail), I started using consumer-level Maxtor OneTouch and Western Digital external drives from my local CompUSA…NONE of them have failed or given me any problems whatsoever. And they have been getting worked much harder than I ever worked my Lacie’s. And everyone I’ve recommended the Maxtors to have also experienced total reliability from them.

So while I appreciate Mat@Lacie’s willingness to follow up to posters on the Cow (most other companies wont even give you enough respect to email you, let alone actually post an open message board), it doesn’t negate the fact that Lacie drives have a sordid reputation for a reason, and the criticisms of people like Sean should be listened to and taken seriously, instead of just being dismissed as statistical anomalies.