Ron Lindeboom
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Yeah, what Tim said. ;o)
I always forget about the RSS feeds.
Ron Lindeboom
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Christopher,
I asked you to take this to the RED forum if you wished to continue. Now I will tell you: Take it to the RED forum or I will throw your account onto moderation if you care to persist in this.
Why come into the Panasonic forum and act like a fanboy to a bunch of people that really don’t want to hear it?
In netspeak, that is called being a troll.
This is your last warning.
Ron Lindeboom
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[Christopher Wright] “While Ron is correct in the NLE market, the camera market for film work is a totally different animal. A good 35mm film cam and lenses are still as useful today as they were 10 years ago.”
While I blush that I am right for once, I am surprised that anyone would purport that RED is going to decimate the field. There is a phase-in period, there is a ramp-up manufacturing period, there are workflow issues (more than just saying that they can work with FCP today) such as the realities of working in the 4K environment, and a ton of other issues to be addressed, resolved, made peace with and much more.
The point is, there are no easy answers and if there were, companies like Sony (especially, as a mega-giant), Panasonic (as a giant) and Thomson (as another giant), et al, would have left no room for anyone else. But to say that it’s clear that RED will leave all $200K-and-under camera users out in the cold is too bold a proclamation, in my opinion.
In the hands of an artist, a good hammer makes a cathedral. In the hands of a hack, it makes an out-house. Never forget that in the end, it’s the story, the image and the artist combining the two that holds more sway than just the hardware alone.
Lastly, do you honestly believe that lens manufacturing giants like Canon, Fujinon, etc., are going to sit back and not take on RED and throw their muscle behind the companies that have been their bread and butter for many years?
I admire the small team at RED and their creativity. But there are a lot more minds combined in the “old guard” and I highly doubt that they are going to sit there while someone moves into their financial office and wants to write checks off their account. You seem to think that these people are oblivious to what is happening and the forces that are at play.
But in the end, RED will have to contend with the fact that they can only make just so many cameras, as their manufacturing is quite small. (Yes, they can grow but their founder is not stupid and I will guarantee that he knows that uncontrolled growth is more dangerous and often more fatal than under-capitalization.)
I expect to see RED carve out a respected place in the market but total nuclear annihilation, hardly.
It took a comet to kill off the dinosaurs; atom bombs would not have been big enough to do the job.
At least those are just some of the factors that I see affecting the market in the days ahead.
Lastly, if you care to keep going on and on about RED, take it to the RED forum or, as the admin, I will move it there.
Respectfully,
Ron Lindeboom
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Remember: Right now, whoever talks first, loses.
Whenever you are in a situation wherein you have named your price and you are pushing to the close (or probably not in this case), memorize these words: Whoever talks first, loses.
Make them come to you. Don’t you dare go make a call or pop by them. If they are going to come up to your price, it won’t be because you call them at this point and ask what they think.
Repeat after me: “I promise, Ron and all the guys with the gray haired heads up top. I won’t do that, honest and cross my heart, I won’t!”
If they don’t get hold of you, go fishing and have a beer like Steve says. It will be time better spent. In fact, forget the fishing and just go have a beer, that will be time much better spent.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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News instantly appears in the text box as it is entered to the news forum. (Our mechanism is reading that forum and displaying it on the front page in the news area.) As each news item is entered, it pushed the others down by one. So, if you had swung by the news items earlier, the news of Panasonic’s 32gig cards would have been at the top. But as the mechanism is based on entry time, the newest news always gets the top and moves down sequentially as new news items are added.
Best,
Ron Lindeboom
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You are welcome, Juanjo.
Ron
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You will have to create a new identity, one tied to a real address (even though it will not be shown publicly).
We saw 75% bad come out of the anonymous posts when we allowed them. So we do not support them any longer.
Sorry,
Ron Lindeboom
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Bottomline: If you take this job at this rate, be prepared to do ALL their jobs at that rate. That is a FACT. If they tell you otherwise, they are full of, well, er, um, manure. This, as human nature will come into play — it always does — and they will say that “Well, if you were willing to work for that on that long job, these jobs are far shorter, so why can’t you do them for less than before? After all, we’ve had our budgets cut and we must stay within budget.”
Do not do this. Never. No. Nine. Nada. Nicht. No. No. No.
Oh, and don’t…
Ron Lindeboom
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[Noah Kadner] “…the bar has been raised quite high and we’re all likely to benefit from the competition.”
I couldn’t agree more, Noah. Revolutionary products affect the market and can even help define the market, but ultimately sheer numbers dominate and thereby make up the backbone of the market.
Red will no doubt accomplish the first two, but I highly doubt that they will accomplish number three anytime in the foreseeable future.
A good example is Media 100. They once completely rearranged the market and replaced systems that were selling for a quarter-million or so — systems that largely came with an Avid nameplate at the time. Media 100 affected and helped revolutionize the market but ultimately, the sheer numbers of players like Apple, Avid and Adobe ate up M100’s onetime edge.
Red will no doubt change the game but the giants never go away and just adapt to the changing market, offering their own competitors and marketing them with a serious vengeance.
That’s been my observation as to how it almost always plays out in the market.
But hey, everyone loves a revolutionary — well, almost everyone. ;o)
Ron Lindeboom
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The box is about the same overall size on screen as the text area within the posts inside our forums. It is almost that big. We are surely not downplaying the forums, are we?
By giving the news to people inside a box with a scrolling bar as we have done, we have let people know that there are many more features there than just news — which was most of the old interface’s front door page.
We also have other items that will shortly be populating the front page. We are doing a bunch of new things across many areas of the COW and so we’ll get to the front door a bit later.
As I said, using this layout, we are communicating that there is more to the front door than just news and as the new items populate the page, that message will become even more apparent.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom