Michael Sanders
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Yep and I know one high end co in the UK that has lost a lot of work because it’s two year old ingest system couldn’t handle 1080 25p, only 50i.
Seriously, 5 years – in this industry now? Your kidding right?
Don’t know where your based so not sure if you heard about the BBC’s DMI project? The idea was that everything should be online and accessible from where-ever. The BBC decided to build a bespoke system because 5 years ago it didn’t exist. 5 years later on and its doable with off the shelf hardware for a lot less than the £100M the BBC put into the project.
That’s how fast the tech is moving today.
A public service broadcaster could get away with that – a facilities not so much.
Michael Sanders
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Yep and I know one high end co in the UK that has lost a lot of work because it’s two year old ingest/asset management system couldn’t handle 1080 25p, only 50i.
Seriously, 5 years – in this industry now? Your kidding right?
Michael Sanders
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And those ones are?
I’d hardly call £289 a frivolous capital expense, compared with ££££ for Avid, Smoke etc.
To be honest, if you’re a facilities house that doesn’t update computers and software every few years you are going to be out of business very quickly anyway.
Gone are the day’s of buying a 1″ etc and hoping it will pay off in three years, now kit (camera or post) needs to pay itself back much quicker.
Michael Sanders
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Which ones are you referring to? The one’s still editing on 1″ or the ones editing on U band?
Michael Sanders
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Sadly importing an X XML into it just crashes the programme.
Michael Sanders
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Or do you mean Aston? Can’t remember the Aston using Bernoulli drives though -. 3 onwards def. didn’t. Abekas maybe. Early versions of Paintbox and DPE500 stills stores did as well.
Michael Sanders
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As one of the people quoted I feel I can comment safely about this.
The author posted a message on the Facebook FCP page asking for comments, stating quite clearly that they were researching for an article to be published in Macworld.
To be fair I’m slightly miffed they didn’t seek to contact me to ask if it was OK to publish my name but in her defence Facebook is an open forum so there’ no real damage.
Michael Sanders
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I’ve never understood why, with OS X built on Unix – an OS designed for multi users – that FCP has never been better for sharing, or Aperture for that matter.
Michael Sanders
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I’d wait..
We know 10.1 is due out very soon so I’d wait and see where it goes from there.
Michael Sanders
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Yes – when two well know DPs (Art Adams and Geoff Boyle) wanted to test a Dragon MX they were told they couldn’t because they wouldn’t do a fair comparison.
So you make a product designed to rock the world of cinema yet don’t want professional DPs (who you would guess you would want to use your product) to review it…. MMmmm.
JJ has done amazing things but he has also been amazingly arrogant and in some ways total blind to how the industry works.
Michael Sanders
London Based DP/Editor