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.
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?
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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