Re: [Avid-L2] A little trip down Avid memory lane

I read the whole thing and grew nostalgic for the old Avid guard, too,
especially Eric Peters.

Another thing that struck me was the comment from a reader who is a
Final Cut (Apple) employee. He writes:
"Working on Final Cut Pro, we were taught to hate everything Avid."

I realize the advantage of having a competitive spirit, but why do you
have to actually HATE the competition.
Seems miraculous that they'd hire one of Avid's key employees to
basically run things... maybe just out of spite? (no offense to Steve
Bayes' considerable knowledge and skill).

Maybe if FCP spent less time hating and more time admiring, FCP would
be better than it is now.

On Apr 16, 2010, at 2:34 PM, Jimmy Dutt wrote:

>
> This is a little over a year old, but it's a unique perspective on
> Avid's earliest days from someone who would certainly know - Bill
> Warner:
>
> http://billwarner.posterous.com/some-photos-from-the-early-day
>
> I was thinking about this along with a couple other anniversaries this
> past week: the 40th anniversary of "Houston, we've had a problem." and
> the 29th anniversary of the launch of STS-1 (Columbia).
>
> Being just shy of my own 20th anniversary as an Avid user, I've seen
> (and tested) a whole slew of stuff - good, bad and otherwise - that's
> come down from the LPT (Land of the Purple Triangle). While certainly
> not in the same early adopter class as Basil and Alan (The True
> Original Users), I can definitely remember the sheer excitement of
> those very early days (OMG: Dissolves!) and not really being too
> concerned with what the next release might bring or how much all this
> stuff cost (A mere $10k for an upgrade to "CD Quality" 44.1k audio?
> Fan-frakking-tastic!). The whole damned thing was just so cool it
> didn't matter what Avid did (or didn't do). Of course that only
> lasted a year or two :)
>
> It amazing to see what today's "normal expectations" have become. Not
> saying it's bad, mind you; just kind of stunning while considering
> how far things have progressed in such a relatively short time.
>
> -jimmy
>
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