This IS the Avid L2: [Avid-L2] Re: MC 7

Friday, April 12, 2013

[Avid-L2] Re: MC 7

Thanks for your response Dave.

Are you saying that you cannot currently offer specific guidance regarding when the BaseLight HD-SDI issue will be resolved (no pun intended) -- as the timeline associated with the player overhaul is not clearly defined?

And since the Artist Color interoperablility issues are unrelated to the player overhaul -- can you at least provide a sense of when that problem might be addressed for those of us who purchased the product based on claims made by Avid -- but who simply cannot use it in the intended fashion?

Thank you.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, David Colantuoni <david.colantuoni@...> wrote:
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> You may have noticed that we are working on bringing the Media Composer playback engine in Pro Tools 11. This is the first major step to overhauling the player engine, once that's done we can begin improving instances of some of the way this functionality worked in the past. What we have not been saying is that we've begun overhauling everything in Media Composer for a few years now and users will start seeing improvements for performance as the overhaul gets rolled out. This started with 64 bit, the UI and open I/O. The Video engine in Pro Tools is the next step. There is a lot of under the hood investment going on for performance. The audio waveform improvements in MC 7 is another example.
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> Date: Friday, April 12, 2013 11:18 AM
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> I am happy to hear that Dave.
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> Can you provide us with a concrete timeline for this problem to be addressed?
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> And, while we're on the topic, can you provide us with a concrete timeline for the Artist Color to work properly with MC/Symph color correction?
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> Thank you for your response.
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> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com<mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>, David Colantuoni <david.colantuoni@> wrote:
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> > We met with Martin at NAB yesterday to discuss this issue.
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> > Date: Friday, April 12, 2013 10:38 AM
> > To: "Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com<mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com><mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com<mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>>" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com<mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com><mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com<mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>>>
> > Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: MC 7
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> > It is also worth [sadly] noting that Martin at Filmlight told me that as of v.6, Avid's AVX2 architecture does NOT allow the Baselight plugin to work in real time over HD-SDI. He indicated that there is latency and a reduced frame rate which he estimated at 5 fps. Apparently, this was NOT a problem pre-v.6 -- so maybe it broke in the transition to 64-bit.
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> > That means you can't interactively watch and CC shots in full-motion on an external QC monitor -- or on external scopes. The plugin apparently works fine on the computer monitor(s) -- but what good is that if they are not all critically calibrated for a 709 color space?
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> > The Baselight plugin apparently includes a limited facility to accomplish this (calibrating your computer monitor), but what good is that if you are working on a variety of monitors -- and how exactly are your clients supposed to watch and interactively participate in the CC process without sitting in your lap?
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> > Filmlight has apparently asked Avid many times to address this problem -- but there is absolutely no movement on Avid's part. Sounds intentional to me -- but then Avid still hasn't made their own Artist Color work with the MC/Symph CC tool.
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> > Martin recommended that users complain to Avid about this situation -- but we all know how that's going to end. We wouldn't be in this situation if Avid hadn't ignored our requests for over a decade.
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> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com<mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com><mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>, "Terence Curren" <tcurren@> wrote:
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> > > Filmlight is far more powerful on a shot at a time basis, but it isn't a decent workflow tool. Symphony CC is the best "workflow" color corrector available, but the toolset has stagnated over the years. Why can't we have both? Oh yeah, Avid doesn't care. :-(
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