Scott Thomas
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There was a thread on Twitter recently where someone asked Graeme Nattress about his plugin set and when it might be available for Premiere Pro. Graeme has a couple of interesting comments:
“I would love to provide a solution with them in PPro, but it’s just not easy.”
“working on it, but it’s slow going with Premiere.”
On the question if it was a personal issue or a technical one, he responded:
“both I’m afraid.”
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Didn’t know that. Just realized that I didn’t even think of iMacs while I was in the store. While I like the iMac and think they have a place, I’ve never considered one for myself.
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Well, if you keep old cameras around, you might want to keep an old computer around as well. 🙂
I’ve got a G4 and G5 I’ll sell you.
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What is ARM and where did it come from?
ARM stands for Acorn RISC Machine. It was conceived and built as a desktop computer processor. It’s history goes back to the 1980’s. That means that the architecture is only about 10 years younger than Intel’s.
AMD has just announced that they are going to work on a 64 bit ARM processor.
Intel has had an amazing run with the x86, and I’m sure they’re not standing still. There have been more elegant CPU architectures that have come and gone, and Intel has always been able to refine their processes and microcode to do an end-run around them. Will ARM best them where IBM could not? (With the PowerRISC derived G5)
So, if Apple does move to ARM for desktop CPUs, I will not be shocked. Apple has done this kind of switch more times than anyone else, and have an advantage in that area (over other platforms). I would hope it’s a decision not taken lightly.
Wikipedia entry on ARM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture
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Hadn’t thought of that angle, but seems plausible.
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I had a small room with a GVG K-Scope, GVG 1000, GVG VPE-251, Leitch Still Store, Quanta Delta 1. All of this was interconnected 601, built in 1994 in a small market station. The original plan was for three DigiBetas, but we instead got three used BVW-75 decks. Thankfully they were connected via component.
Still was able to make great pictures, just didn’t have pre-read.
Miss the K-Scope to this day.
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(slaps forehead)
How could I forget Ampex? The station I’m at in Fort Myers, FL had a 3 M/E AVC Century from the early 1990’s until 2007, when we replaced it with a Snell Kahuna.Ampex entered the switcher market when they bought Duca-Richardson in Colorado. The old ABC affiliate in this market had a Ampex 4100.
The “soap bubble” demo was a fun one to show off on the AVC. What an innovation to allow the modulators to control things other than just a pattern edge. It also had a great chromakeyer that rivalled a Ultimatte, called the SpectraKey.
In its later years, our Ampex AVC was dying a slow death. Some parts of the board just didn’t work any more. To its credit, it never kept a newscast from going on the air.
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The article mentions nothing about *where* the products will be manufactured, but it does say, “Final Assembly and Testing Will Be Outsourced to Another U.S. Company”.
Talking about past brands; how about Vital, ISI-Intergroup, American Data, Central Dynamics, Beaveronics, Sarkes Tarzian or Crosspoint-Latch? Pretty much the only company from that era still around is GVG.
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There’s a great book on game theory I read many years ago:
https://www.amazon.com/Prisoners-Dilemma-William-Poundstone/dp/038541580X/
After this thread, I think I need to go reread it.
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How many GPI triggers can FCPX have?