ScriptSync and PhraseFind are unique products. Color correction with
secondaries are not. I just don't think Baselight offers the same upside
as those two products. Wasn't the scopes in Avid a 3Prong AVX plugin
originally? Look how that went. Still just a drop down screen in one
particular mode with no abilities to control the interface at all.
On 9/11/2012 11:46 PM, blafarm wrote:
> Avid did not buy Nexidia -- yet they are reselling their fully-integrated products in what I can only assume is a revenue sharing relationship.
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> Why can't Avid be in a revenue sharing relationship with an independently-owned Filmlight?
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> Avid provides Filmlight with the hooks necessary to fully-integrate Baselight into MC/Symphony.
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> Filmlight supports, upgrades and bug-fixes the product -- just like Boris does.
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> I can guarantee you that Filmlight would sell units that are many, many multiples of the number of plugins they will sell.
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> And Avid gets a much needed refresh, in an area that requires enormous amounts of expertise and resources -- both of which may be very limited at this time.
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> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Dom Q. Silverio" <domqsilverio@...> wrote:
>> 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.
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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, 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/
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>>>> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:34 AM, johnrobmoore <bigfish@> wrote:
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>>>>> **
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>>>>> 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?
>>>>>>
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>>>>>> --- 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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