Scott Thomas
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I used the Colorgraphics box, the DP-422. It’s forgotten in the annals of video graphics history.
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Century III
I remember my boss wanting to buy their DF/X Composium. Not happy when I explained that After Effects had eclipsed it seven or eight years later.
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One way to think about it though, is that the editing backbone has to be there anyway for importing EDL or XML, so why not expose this to the user with an interface? If the edit is already done, you don’t need to touch it, but it’s there if you need it.
It makes me sad to see this kind of news about Avid. I loved my MC1000 back in the day. A station I later worked at in Orlando bought one on my recommendation, which caused problems with the union. (Producers couldn’t edit!)
Avid burned a lot of bridges though. There was a ton of politics going on between Microsoft and Apple and Avid I believe was one of the pawns. Microsoft put money into Avid, Adobe was moving development to PC first and I think that prompted the purchase of Final Cut from Macromedia.
But that just one stage. Where I’m working currently, we bought a large, multi-channel Pinnacle MediaStream video server, just as Avid was buying Pinnacle. Avid took on the product, but quickly killed it as it appeared they didn’t want to develop it or fix its flaws. We had to quickly jump off the burning platform. An investment that should have lasted 6 to 8 years became 3 to 5. Avid was a very expensive mistake, and I doubt they would buy from them again
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There was Panasonic PostBox, but I think that was before Fast Video.
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I worked with a guy in Orlando that Oliver Peters most likely knows, Curtis Sponsler. He was a huge fan of Speed Razor and had probably the most tricked out PC you could buy in 1997 to run it… next to his Pentium Pro render farm for 3D Studio Max!
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I remember visiting Post Effects in Chicago around 1990 or 91 and they had, I believe, that DOS based system. Elsewhere was a room where they were doing post on Siskel & Ebert on a CDL switcher.
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Where I work we have a bit of everything. We keep creative edit and graphics on Macs. Most other places we have HP.
We have a large on-air graphics system that is a mix of HP workstations and Dell servers. I had one of the RAID controllers fail on one of the Dells. After trying to get Dell support to help, they gave up and just bought the part off Ebay.
Dell on one call will tell us that we need to call a different number: “You are a large business, you need to call this number…”, “You’re a small business, you need to call this (other) number…”
I eventually had to call the vendor of the system and they we able to get Dell to do the right thing, but it shouldn’t have to happen that way.
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I follow John on Twitter. He’s wasn’t too happy last I checked because HP dropped the price of his system $1,000 *after* he bought his.
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Scott,
You’ll probably want to post in the regular “Adobe Premiere Pro” forum and not the “basics” one. Sorry I can’t help you, I make do with CS6.