Hi Ben,
I use it all the time in London. It's defacto almost for large reality shows over here.
My experiences are mixed. On the user side, they've always had trouble with a dated and confusing interface. They've had a recent overhaul and it looks a bit better but it's still far from intuitive in certain circumstances, although they do have good training resources on the web and Chris and the team are very responsive in terms of support and fixes.
The admin linux back end is often sluggish and unresponsive when dealing with large amounts of footage but once you get to grips with it it is solid.
It's used by producers and loggers mainly to log hours of crappy reality rushes and to cut together sync pulls for the actual edit. It is more fully featured than that, for example you can add effects, titles, colour corrections, you can even do multicam in it, but no one I know uses them and they are very hidden from the basic interface. Once they've got a string out then you can kick out an AAF which will relink to your avid media on the ISIS or wherever and away you go. It's very seamless actually. Basic workflow for us is:
Ingest offline media on to ISIS > ISIS workspace is designated a Forscene watchfolder > Forscene picks up the mxfs and transcodes to its own codec and uploads "to the cloud" > producers and loggers go to town > AAFs are exported and relinked back to ISIS media > craft editors finess.
From my experience, I don't know anyone using it for more fully featured work, IMHO it is not anywhere near ready for that sort of work as the interface is too clumsy and is mostly used as a logging and rough assembly tool but it is cool. We had it quite early on, probably over 4 years ago and to be honest it's usage hasn't changed much for me over that time. I think of it more as a useful addition to the main editing process, a supporting tool as it were but I'm sure with enough patience it can be used for quite a bit more detailed work. It comes in handy for palming off tedious logging duties to "loggers" the new lowest rung on the post production ladder!
Andi
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 10:25:16 -0700
Subject: [Avid-L2] Forscene?
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 10:25:16 -0700
Subject: [Avid-L2] Forscene?
Hi L2 Crew,
I just had a message come in promoting 'Forscene' at NAB.
It's a cloud editing app.
Has anyone used this before? I'm just curious about folks' opinions.
Cheers,
-B
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