Friday, February 14, 2014

[Avid-L2] Re: Avid's biggest challenges

 

Oliver wrote:

 

>In the TV show and feature world, it was originally up against Montage, Edifex and CMX6000. All showed "full-resolution" (VHS, Betamax or LaserDisc) images. So >Avid's 4-bit color was a bit of a joke. You couldn't tell sync or eyeline on a medium or wide shot. Definitely not something most directors were comfortable with. So yes, >I'm sure plenty or pejoratives were used. ;-)

Do not forget Lightworks – in 1990 I was still in Amsterdam, doing primarily spot work, and we chose Lightworks over Avid due to the AVR 1 heavily-mosaiced pic, in which you could not distinguish facial expressions, glints, etc.

 

Keith Rollinson

 

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