Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Re: [Avid-L2] Baselight for Avid Release

 

Hey David

Where would we find info on resolve 9 interop?

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On Sep 11, 2012, at 8:31 PM, David Colantuoni <david.colantuoni@avid.com> wrote:

> We worked extremely close for months with the Filmlight folks on this integration, same goes for Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve 9. You'll find that a lot of work goes on behind the scenes to make these partnerships work. MC 6.5 also has a small but powerful improvement that allows you to relink to any bin. This was an important change to help with better interop.
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> From: "Dom Q. Silverio" <domqsilverio@gmail.com<mailto:domqsilverio@gmail.com>>
> Reply-To: "Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com<mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com<mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>>
> Date: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 5:22 AM
> To: "Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com<mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com<mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>>
> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Baselight for Avid Release
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> With what money to buy and further development/integrate it?
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> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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?
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>> 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<mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.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!
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> Dylan Reeve
>>> http://dylanreeve.com/
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>>> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:34 AM, johnrobmoore <bigfish@...> wrote:
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>>>> That is what I was told by someone from BaseLight on the Avid Symphony
>>>> Forum.
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>>>> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com<mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>, "blafarm" <blafarm@> wrote:
>>>>> So...
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>>>>> Realtime performance on external monitors (HD-SDI/HDMI)?
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>>>>> And, realtime non-stuttering performance using Artist Color?
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>>>>> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com<mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>, "Terence Curren" <tcurren@> wrote:
>>>>>> No version for PC yet.
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>>>>>> Individual shots only since it's an AVX effect.
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>>>>>> Powerful toolset.
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>>>>>> 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<mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com>, "blafarm" <blafarm@> wrote:
>>>>>>> So, now that the product is shipping ...
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>>>> http://www.filmlight.ltd.uk/products/editions/range_ed/index_ed.php#BaselightAvid
>>>>>>> Or this shortened link: http://tinyurl.com/8frva8m
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>>>>>>> Any comments from those that have used it?
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>>>>>>> And, any thoughts on Baselight vs. Resolve.
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>>>>>>> Unfortunately, I could not participate in the beta -- being on PC.
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