Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Smoke on Mac Update

funny, i think we're all on the same page, at least the general public is. Excitement.

Smoke is out on the mac, and available at a price point that makes most of us look up and pay attention. Autodesk is doing what Avid should have done 3 yrs ago when they came out with the software version of DS. They're making it attractable/attainable to people who otherwise wouldn't be able to..

They're marketing this as a product they're proud of. Avid still brushes DS under the carpet. Look at all the info on the web for the last 2 months about Smoke.. they built up the hype, and got everyone excited, and they didn't fail on the delivery. at least not in the demo Terry and I, and a whole room full of other editors, saw.
when was the last time you felt excited about anything avid did?

And the argument about building your business on a platform, and having that be the reason you survive or fail is about the worst argument for or against a product i can think of. remembering of course, Smoke for the last yr has been cheaper than a DS. (At least for the Smoke HD version, not the 2k-4k Advanced version. ) now they're about the same. That;s like a Symphony Editor blaming his tools, instead of his/her lack of knowledge about how to do something.

ok. i'm off. trying to learn Smoke.. and use DS. and learn Lustre, and Nuke, and Fusion, and anything else that makes me more attractive as a freelance editor/Colorist/vfx artist. (no pun intended!)

Marc

On Dec 18, 2009, at 3:43 AM, switthaus wrote:

> man, I knew that was coming...having run a shop with both, I can tell you the smoke curve is WAY steeper than DS...
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> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Terence Curren" <tcurren@...> wrote:
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> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "switthaus" <switthaus@> wrote:
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> > <<with the learning curve of Autoscreet, will 30 days be nearly enough?>>
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> > Yeah, I guess it's sort of like DS that way....
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Marc Fisher
cav2ya@sbcglobal.net

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