Re: "Mid-Range" Video & "Long-Range" Planning

Michael K. Kuentz (videomax@pipeline.com)
Wed, 28 Oct 1998 20:09:12 -0500

At 04:46 PM 10/27/98 -0800, you wrote:
>>access shows. Only once have I walked into a pro, broadcast, or corp video
>>house and seen a premier in an edit suite; it was for consumer and low-end
>>broadcast editing use.
>
>If you remember how Avid started it was a low rez (ugly) off-line system.
>Just because they got the market share doesn't mean their EDL's look best.
>
>For the type of editing I teach (narrative) a FireMax is real time cuts &
>the organization skills - logging/batch/back-up are the same as the Avid.
>
>I would have no trouble preparing for an Avid session with a FireMax EDL,
>but I would lose quality transcoding to MJPEG from my native DV format.
>
>Ross

Check your transcoding formulas there, Ross. I believe that you are mistaken
on digital format transfers.
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