Shawn Miller
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[Oliver Peters] “[Scott Witthaus] “Buy Affinity and integrate.”
Good grief! Nooooooo… Just another company to kill? Look what they did with Color. An “Applization” of Serif would destroy any innovation that they are headed in.
– Oliver”
That would not be good news for the PC side of the base… the suggestion alone brings back bad memories of the Emagic acquisition.
Shawn
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[Tom Sefton] “Never trusted the black magic pocket camera so yes a red version would be great, but to get much cheaper than their raven and maintain some sort of market position over someone who would buy cheap as possible would be really difficult.”
The BMPCC is actually a pretty cool little camera; 13 stops of dynamic range, 10 bit Prores or 12 bit raw. I’ve used it as a B camera for green screen shoots and for shots where larger cameras weren’t the best option. I think an inexpensive RED device that shoots .rd3 in a compact form factor would sell really well.
Shawn
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I was hoping for an inexpensive, compact cinema camera… like the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera or the Micro Cinema Camera. ☹
Shawn
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[Scott Witthaus] “[Shawn Miller] ” I care that AE doesn’t natively support DEEP EXR or cryptomatte and that Premiere doesn’t support compressed cDNG”
And why is that? Perhaps because they need to develop so many products? Hmmm…”
Who knows, then again, Avid doesn’t have a product that supports these formats either.
[Scott Witthaus] “The point is to get people thinking and reconsider their thought process. Then connect with the user on a common theme.”
Sure… but this would only be effective for Premiere Pro users who are constantly having issues. I personally haven’t encountered very many bugs with Adobe products, so it doesn’t resonate with me. I would be surprised if Premiere in particular was so unstable that a significant segment of the base was looking to jump to another system.
[Scott Witthaus] “Personally, I could care less about Deep EXR or cDNG, but hey, maybe that’s because Adobe is stretched so thin they can’t support it? Those bastards! ????”
You have to say the same thing about Apple then. Unless Motion or FCPX now supports deep EXR and compressed cinema DNG. ☺
[Scott Witthaus] “Marketing is not about a feature set, rather a thought process and connection.”
I don’t think it’s that simple – no matter how I feel about Apple (for example), Motion doesn’t have the feature set I require for my daily work. How then, would you (as Apple) engage with someone like me… how should Avid? What thought process and connection could you get me to engage, in order to get me to switch? ☺
Shawn
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[Scott Witthaus] “If I am Avid marketing, I am like, “psst, hey, Premiere users, see all those softwares you pay for and never use? Now, ever wonder why Premiere is so buggy? Put two and two together. You are paying money to develop software you will never use. At Avid, we know who you are and what you need. You are a storyteller, and editor, a maker of magic. At Avid, your subscription goes to the development Media Composer and Pro-Tools. That’s it. Not some cartoon software, but software that is solid, bug free and makes you a better storyteller. You can pick: pay for stuff you never use and suffer the bugs or come back to a company focused on you as a storyteller….””
I don’t think most users care when they’re subsidizing applications that they don’t use. I care that AE doesn’t natively support DEEP EXR or cryptomatte and that Premiere doesn’t support compressed cDNG, but Avid or anyone else telling me that Premiere is buggy because my subscription pays for Muse, does nothing to encourage me to switch.
Shawn
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[Walter Soyka] ”
[Shawn Miller] “Well, alright then. You win, Andy. ☺”
Does that make him the Ultimate Forum Champion?”
lol – yes, I believe it does. ☺
Shawn
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Well, alright then. You win, Andy. ☺
Shawn
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[andy patterson] “The spelling is irrelevant.”
Not when you say things like this [andy patterson] “You kind of messed up a tad bit there didn’t ya?”
[andy patterson] ” I don’t need to know anything about martial arts nor did Jim Brown when they hosted the first UFC.”
Jim Brown didn’t make a faulty analogy based on a subject he didn’t know anything about AFIAK.
[andy patterson] ” I am saying many martial artists feel their form of martial arts is the best and that there technique is the best. We know this because they were all interviewed at the first UFC.”
And, as I’ve said, this isn’t a common mindset among experienced martial artists, and it hasn’t been for a long time. You might have to have more exposure to the subject than television interviews to know that though.
[andy patterson] “The Ultimate Editing Championship might shed some light on what methods really work the best.”
For an editing contest… sure. I’m not sure what useful methods might be exposed for every day work though.
[andy patterson] “What I stated is 100% correct.”
I doubt that you could be convinced otherwise!
[andy patterson] “Don’t be upset if I don’t now anything about karate or judo because I don’t have to nor did Jim Brown. We know from the first and second UFC that some techniques were not effective while others were. The sport has defiantly change since UFC 1 and 2.”
LOL – that first part is just classic! To your point though, to be effective in UFC style fights, you have to use the methods and techniques that are effective in those fights. Outside of those fights, the same approach isn’t nearly as effective. Sports martial arts is to real fighting as reality TV is to real life… one is real, the other is realistic. That’s my conclusion after having done all four. ☺
Shawn
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[Chris Harlan] “Just for the record–I have never, ever even remotely thought: Hey! That Shawn, he has a hard time grasping analogies. I have found, over the years, that have superior skills in both producing and understanding analogies. You are, in fact, damn good at it.”
Thanks Chris, that truly means a lot to me. ☺
Shawn
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[andy patterson] “For starters I was not comparing FCPX or Adobe to any type of martial arts.”
I think you completely missed my point – saying this:… “It is one thing to have a Kong-Fu or Aikido practitioner practice wrist lock and deflections with friends in the dojo. However when they enter the real world the wrist locks and deflections do not work as they has practiced. In fact it does more harm than good.”
…is like saying this… “FCPX cannot be used in high end workflows because inexperienced editors cannot use it to get professional results”
I’m saying that you don’t understand martial arts enough to know that your statements are incorrect, as incorrect as someone who doesn’t understand FCPX, but insists that it can’t be used in high end workflows.
[andy patterson] “You kind of messed up a tad bit there didn’t ya?”
I really didn’t. BTW, its Kung-Fu or Gung-Fu… not Kong-Fu… ☺
[andy patterson] “Nothing I posted would suggest FCPX cannot be used for high-end work. I think people might think you have a hard time grasping analogies. Having said that just simply owning FCPX does not guarantee that the user can produce a major motion picture with it. That might have been the better way to word it and more accurate.”
Please see my first comment. ☺
Shawn