MoovyMagic@aol.com
Tue, 1 Jun 1999 07:53:34 EDT
In a message dated 05/31/1999 11:58:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
A1Burokas@aol.com writes:
>
> Or, look at it this way...
> The viewpoint that it _is_ worth it to spend a percentage more and
get
> "solid" equipment usually comes from experience. This experience having
come
>
> from building it ourselves (two VVS systems from the ground up) and these
> endeavors not only show us the value of good integration and support, they
> teach us an awful lot.
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Amen, Anthony...
"Time is money----
---but it ain't cash!"
Philip Mische
Great Thinker
We bought a cheap edit solution---the EditBay by DPS. I am an old
dog---well and happily able to edit by slinging tape around rotating
machinery---and this new fangled computer-based stuff seemed a bit
intimidating to one steeped in The Old Paradigm.
A friend toured me around his top 'o the line Media100 ---but it was all so
much so fast, my eyes just glazed over, like when I talk with my tax
accountant.
I knew I needed to just sit with the system---any system---and I could rise
to second-class hack cutter pretty fast. (Excellence would come,
eventually.) I just had to spend the hours and hours and hours and hours and
hours it takes to grok the deepest zen understanding that allows one to get
really useful stuff ---and tricks ---out of any system. To get really good
with any complex device just takes some sitting and grinding time once all
the basics are there.
The render waits with EditBay actually gave me some enforced "think time"
that was beneficial. Since we don't ever edit with clients in the room (See
essay at www.StudioOne-CT.com), there was no particular penalty for that.
The video quality is excellent with EditBay, and it has very few ugly cramps.
I don't know that I would have made a wong choice and blown $35,000 on
something it would take me many debt-servicing months to get up to speed on;
but I do know the EditBay ($950---with some pretty nice edit software)
taught me what I needed to learn, let me turn out good-lookin' stuff,
saved investment interest of a few thousand dollars, and let the market
mature so when I _do_ spend $35,000 there will be more horses under the
hood.... All timeline edit software is much more alike than it is different
compared to The Old Way.
Doing it cheap, and doing it right ain't always two different things.
Everybody selects their own path...
Sometimes, in life as in chess, a "waiting move" can be quite powerful....
Bill Barrett
StudioOne-CT.com
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