[Shane Chadder]

No timelines. If you work on long form docs you often cut sections by theme or story on different timelines. I’ll often build timelines of my best B reel, each timeline again by theme or location. Then gradually build a show timeline cutting and pasting from numerous open timelines and source bins.

It is very usefull to have timelines of different versions of a show especially when you start shortening to time. You may throw away a whole section, then decide a week later you want it again its easy to cut and paste a that section from that earlier timeline.

How on earth could I do that if my project consists of 30 hours of footage split into thousands of clips, in 20 different bins. Every time I want a new timeline do a save as and delete the info off the timeline and start editing again?.. and open 8 instances of Vegas so I can cut and past back and forth? It sounds more complicated.

I’m sure it is a great product for many, but it doesn’t fit my particular (or peculiar) workstyle.

[Shane Chadder]

Thanks for the info. I’m used to having 10-20 timelines in a project so it doesn’t sound like a fit for my workstyle.

Great to see they are supporting some hardware i/o now.

[Shane Chadder]

Thanks

I’ll chech it out.

Windows only is what I’m after. I just want a central storage system to serve up DV25 and DV50 to three edit systems. The edit systems would store all their uncompressed footage locally.

I don’t get iscsi, is it just a network backbone like gigabit ethernet?

[Shane Chadder]

DVCPro 50 can be captured via firewire in the newer Panasonic deck with some editing applications. I think Avid and FCP are all for the moment…maybe Axio will I’m not sure.

I wish someone would provide native DVCPro50 support in Premiere. It is a shame to use 3x the disk space for uncompressed footage.