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

When I sat down at the Avid for the first time on X-FilesI didn't even own a computer of my own. Older editors where warning me how I would hate it. Blah blah. With 2 gig shoe box sized hard drives and all I was really impressed. Within minutes of "feeling my way "editing"I was sold that this was "IT". By the end of the week I was making everyone look at this wonder. Memory lane indeed.
                                                                                Jim Coblentz

--- On Fri, 4/16/10, Christopher Pitbladdo <avid@digitalbuddy.co.uk> wrote:

From: Christopher Pitbladdo <avid@digitalbuddy.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] A little trip down Avid memory lane
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, April 16, 2010, 1:31 PM

 

Absolutely wonderful. I could read about this sort of stuff all day long.

Back then, did these guys realise what an impact they'd have on the

world of film and television, I wonder?

Thanks for posting.

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On 16/04/2010 20:34, 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

> <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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