This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: "What are you grading this week 2013?", survey results.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Re: [Avid-L2] Re: "What are you grading this week 2013?", survey results.

Apple is doomed....

Wait - didn't we have this conversation 12 years ago...

Mike

On 24 Jul, 2013, at 1:41 PM, "Rupert Watson" <rupert@root6.com> wrote:

> Mark
>
> In my book the issue with ProRes is the closed nature of the way Apple
> have let it out into the world. Take Baton for example. You can do a
> file based QC of ProRes but they have to treat it as a 'black box'. The
> developers can't crack it open and analyse it and - like Vidchecker -
> and repair it if needed. Other file formats allow that and are therefore
> more useful in a file based workflow.
>
> I was at a conference a while back and a very highly placed exec was
> fulminating against Apple and ProRes for lots of reasons. Even the
> diehard fans are starting to see the light.
>
> Rupert Watson
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
> Of Mark Spano
> Sent: 24 July 2013 07:33
> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: "What are you grading this week 2013?",
> survey results.
>
> Why is this insane? ProRes is perfectly fine to deliver for broadcast.
> Are you really getting "abysmal" gamma shifts when creating a ProRes
> file for delivery? I'm not.
>
> I cringe when I don't see it in a deliverable sheet because it means
> "they don't really know" and I need to have a back and forth with
> someone about why it's not great to take broadcast delivery as H.264 or
> worse.
>
> DNxHD and ProRes are both great for broadcast. Neither one is insane.
>
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:15 AM, Job ter Burg (L2B)
> <Job_L2@terburg.com>wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> >
> > Which is PRECISELY what I am calling insane, Oliver. We should all be
> > ashamed to have let that happen. Even if DNx is or was not the answer.
> >
> > On 23 jul. 2013, at 21:28, "oliverpetersvidy" <
> > oliverpeters@oliverpeters.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Nevertheless, ProRes, closely followed by H264 are the two most
> > > common
> > deliverables I run into FOR BROADCAST.
> >
> >
> >
>
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