Friday, November 20, 2009

Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Mac Smoke Official

On Nov 20, 2009, at 5:37 PM, IAN WILSON wrote:

>>
>> What's the projected sales of this new NLE? If it's relying on RED
>> then we're looking at maybe 12K sales worldwide (more than double RED
>> camera sales), which is simply not a viable number for companies to
>> invest in and be able to keep the price "reasonable".
>>
>> For comparison, *edit was killed with about 5,000 total users.
>
> So Philip, what's the end game here, is the RR cards doing a ProRez in
> RT as good as it gets?

maybe. I don't know. I do know that it's a business as well as a
creative occupation and the business side tends to dictate.

I think it would be great if Apple decided to hook into the RR card
(when available) to accelerate R3D decodes (or Adobe for that matter -
I don't think Avid will get there soon). And frankly, my recent
exploration of RED workflows has made me a huge fan of the RAW concept
and RED's implementation, but...

the pragmatic realist in me (or cynical old guy - your call) says that
I can't really make a *business case* for Apple (or Adobe) to support
RR. How much would it cost them to implement RR support vs how much
extra money will flow in as a result. Given the actual size of the
RED market (as opposed to the outsized influence it's had) I think I'd
find it hard to make that equation work.

Unless one or the other company decided that the cost wasn't that
great that it would be worth it as a promotional value. I'd say Adobe
are more likely to go that path than Apple. (And frankly, I like
Adobe's implementation of R3D best of the big three NLEs.)

Philip

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