Timothy Auld
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[Mitch Ives] “It’s a misnomer to assume that those signs were there to keep minorities out.”
I grew up in the south and saw those signs everywhere too. We disagree strongly that they were not designed to keep out minorities. The bottom line is that business owners have a perfect right to refuse service to anyone who is unruly, violent, or otherwise disruptive to the business. But no right whatever to refuse service to someone for being black, native american, hispanic, gay, or in show business.
Tim
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There are still editing specialists in the NYC market so I guess that’s a bit different, but as far as networks evaluating everything all the time you couldn’t be more right. And Adobe does seem to be actively courting high end post in a way that Apple is not (and doesn’t really have too.)
Tim
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CNN began phasing Avid out in 2007 in favor of FCP. I don’t think they ever considered Avid in their current plans and I pretty sure Avid didn’t court them to do so. A loss? Maybe. More like a missed opportunity. Avid has huge presence in big broadcast markets and the feature film industry. And lot of that is ISIS based. When economic pressures and performance issues begin to threaten that infrastructure then Avid will be in big trouble.
Tim
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OK, now I understand what you are talking about. And it would make sense for them to go PC. It would make sense for me if everyone didn’t want everything delivered in ProRes.
Tim
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I doubt Apple will be worried as well. Mostly because they are not really in that business any longer. When I was freelancing 7-8 years ago Apple had reps (stealth to be sure, but definitely there) in newsrooms and facilities, talking up FCP and how it was the future. Kind of what Adobe is doing now. As for Avid, well…it’s hard to make a bag of hammers and red bricks worry about much of anything.
Tim
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Yes, CNN must make hardware expenditures in any case. And a fair amount of the hardware that they have invested in an FCP 7 environment would cross over to a Premiere environment. So I’m not really sure of the point you are trying to make here.
Tim
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All I meant was that CNN is not going to get a deal equivalent to what you and I would not matter what the payment structure. My main point was that they either tried to talk to Apple and got nowhere or decided it was pointless to talk to Apple. They talked to Adobe and Adobe apparently listened to what CNN needed and promised to make changes based on those needs.
Tim
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I am no big fan of Adobe or subscription pricing and I don’t have the slightest idea what CNN’s deal with Adobe is but I seriously doubt it has a monthly subscription fee attached to it. But that aside what I read in the text of that release is this: Either they tried to talk to Apple and were ignored, or they discerned there was no point in even trying to talk to Apple. They talked to Adobe and Adobe responded to their concerns.
As for the “little guy?” How much is a subscription to Premiere CC? About $20 a month I think.
Tim
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Ouch.
Tim
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I will work with anyone without regard to their race, national origin, sexual orientation, or any other nonsense that people will use to marginalize some person or group they don’t happen to agree with. Jeez, I though we settled all this stuff in the late sixties
Tim