[Avid-L2] Re: And Now a Word About Online Finishing

I love reading how SN classic and DX are just not cutting it for online. I guess I've been fooled the last 8 years onlining easily a thousand plus shows for broadcast and cable. I agree there is better image quality and flexibility on other pieces of software/hardware out there but perhaps I'm just too much of a realist in the realm of broadcast television I work in.

I remember the ADO at $180,000 was a lot cleaner than the Quantel DPM-5000 5 channel unit we had at ABC. Then a few years later the Abekas A-53 at 40 or 50 grand became popular to use even though it's image quality was nothing like the first ADO's. ADO came out with the 2000 and 1000 etc but I never spent much time on them to access the image quality relative to the original ADO. Then Abekas came out with the A-51 which had even worse image quality than the A-53. I liked the A-51 because of it's more ADO like interface seeing all the parameters on a CRT and it had smear and some other effect the A-53 didn't have. That got me through a lot of MTV segments. I knew I was creating a lesser than image using the A-51 but no one really cared about a less crisp image.

So here we are again with less than pristine image quality and flexibility but a work horse that cranks things out day in and day out. I wonder if there will ever be an all inclusive product that gets everything right. I am really enjoying this discussion and on a weekend no less. Keep it coming guys. I'm taking my macbook pro to the neighbors to help spice up his Bar Mitzvah video with Avid, FCP, Adobe suite. I'm hoping to create a Mohel wipe for the baby pictures. Can you say ouch! ;-)

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "oliverpetersvidy" <oliverpeters@...> wrote:
>
> Rainer,
>
> > Rainer Standke wrote:
> > Two points come to mind:
> > - There is quite a hump to leave your editing app, migrate the entire
> > sequence into a different box, and then bring it back. ....
>
> Agreed, which is why Mac Smoke has piqued interest. Autodesk has improved their QT access, so in theory a Mac Smoke system could live on the same shared storage with FCP seats and access the media without transcoding. TBD what that storage can be. Maybe Xsan (or Facilis, EditShare, etc.), maybe not.
>
> Quantel is also working in that same direction, but with their own servers. Avid, isn't, unless it can get this functionality into AMA.
>
> - Oliver
>

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