Wednesday, September 12, 2012

[Avid-L2] Re: Baselight for Avid Release

 

We did send a men to the moon...

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Dom Q. Silverio" <domqsilverio@...> wrote:
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> With what money to buy and further development/integrate it?
>
> Apple, with more money than the US Government, could barely get FCP and
> Color mesh fluidly. Not sure how Avid buying a third party product then
> further develop it half way through with little or no cash on hand. It
> is a sexy product that can move boxes, but I just don't think the money
> and development time are there.
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> On 9/11/2012 11:05 PM, blafarm wrote:
> > Frankly, I don't understand why Avid didn't just strike a licensing deal with Filmlight -- like they did with Nexidia for ScriptSync and PhraseFind.
> >
> > Can you imagine how many Avid users would buy a fully-integrated, bolt-on version of a Baselight? And, just like ScriptSync and PhraseFind; you only buy it -- if you need it.
> >
> > Owning Symphony would allow you to purchase a fully-featured version of the Baselight add-on with all of the relational goodies -- while a significant amount of functionality would be feature-limited for MC. And Avid could finally update the two programs and begin to differentiate them in a meaningful way.
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> > Avid long-ago 'gave up the ghost' on a significant amount in-house FX development -- the gap of which was filled by Boris (FX, Continuum). How is this any different?
> >
> > More importantly, going forward, how can Avid possibly compete with the likes of Baselight and Resolve? No offense intended, but I sincerely doubt they had the in-house resources before all of the layoffs. So what is CC 2.0 going to look like after the layoffs?
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> > Is this a highly-oversimplified, 'cocktail napkin' business plan? Sure it is. But you get my point...hopefully.
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> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Dylan Reeve <dylan@> wrote:
> >> If they can find a way to get sufficient clip metadata information to
> >> somehow approximate the relational corrections of Symphony then we'd be
> >> talking!
> >>
> >> I wonder if they can find a way to have it applied of filler, and
> >> automatically add edits based on the tracks below it, and also read clip
> >> metadata from below.
> >>
> >> The technology seems to exist
> >> - The Avid Pan and Scan effect can do the edits thing (Apply it on filler,
> >> go into effect editor, select 'Subdivide' from actions).
> >> - The Timecode effect can read various metadata from clips on lower video
> >> tracks.
> >>
> >> Dylan Reeve
> >> http://dylanreeve.com/
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:34 AM, johnrobmoore <bigfish@> wrote:
> >>
> >>> **
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> That is what I was told by someone from BaseLight on the Avid Symphony
> >>> Forum.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "blafarm" <blafarm@> wrote:
> >>>> So...
> >>>>
> >>>> Realtime performance on external monitors (HD-SDI/HDMI)?
> >>>>
> >>>> And, realtime non-stuttering performance using Artist Color?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Terence Curren" <tcurren@> wrote:
> >>>>> No version for PC yet.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Individual shots only since it's an AVX effect.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Powerful toolset.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Probably best used as an additional tool to Symphony's Color
> >>> Corrector. Use it when Symphony can't go far enough.
> >>>>> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "blafarm" <blafarm@> wrote:
> >>>>>> So, now that the product is shipping ...
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>> http://www.filmlight.ltd.uk/products/editions/range_ed/index_ed.php#BaselightAvid
> >>>>>> Or this shortened link: http://tinyurl.com/8frva8m
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Any comments from those that have used it?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> And, any thoughts on Baselight vs. Resolve.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Unfortunately, I could not participate in the beta -- being on PC.
> >>>>>>
> >>>
> >>>
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