NAB insights
Marc Fisher
The Good:
I saw a working Blu-RAY DVD drive at the TDK booth, along with a few spools of 50Gig/25 gig/ and 10 gig media. Wow! 50 gig. Man! How many meat fest pics could I fit on that?
Working the NAB-HD booth I got to work the latest Dual Processor, Dual core G5 with the Kona 3 card and FCP5.1. I can only say, I wish Avid had the integration between apps like Apple has built into their apps, Apple's a lot more like Discreet products, in that sense, tight integration=nice & easy=Done. FCP is very fast on this machine, including HD. And the enormous monitor, I think it was a 30inch cinema display (there were no markings on it to tell me, and I didn't have a tape measure) it was huge, it made the 21inch cinema display look tiny. Speaking of tiny...
Panasonic had a working 103" Plasma screen. Yes, 103". Next to it were 2 65" plasmas that looked like postage stamps next to that behemoth. Wow! I'll take 1. How the heck do you pick that up at the store???
The new version of Premier pro/Adobe studio is just as nice. Using the matrox axio hardware. I didn't spend time on it, but the editor who did was very impressed with it. ( I just can't get used to the adobe interface). It was also on a 64bit 4 processor, AMD machine running 64bit windows. Ppro and AE 7 are VERY fast.
Final Touch, with the user control surface is sAweet. If I was using FCP on a pro job, and that was also going to be used for color correction, that would definitely be the way to go. The booth looked more like a pair of DaVinci sweets that an app using FCP XML. Nice.
Also at the TV station, we had the new 17" MacBook Pro. Again, fast. I mean, it's as fast as the current G5 desktops. (or nearly) can I place my order now please?
The Coolest:
The Discreet Area. They get an A+++ in my book for the booth and mood the set. Really well done, incredible cool.
Those at the meat fest got to see Howard serenade us before we ingested various meats and bottles of beer. That was cool Howard.
Everyone at the NAB-HD booth was there on a volunteer basis. Which means, NO Pay. A lot of hours by a lot of people. May not have been the financial best thing for all involved, but it something to think about what can be done by people who love what they do.
The Bad:
The DS spot. It is a shame that Avid's top of the line product had nothing more than the space a lemonade stand would take up. similar to what's Smacked on the endcap of a grocery store isle. You know, the discount foods type thing. There was One demo artist there. And you couldn’t here him. No wireless mic or audio reinforcements. But I guess that would have drowned out Apples horrifically loud display. And to tell you, it only had stuff that I know Bill Admans had worked on, so you know everything was going to look good and proper.
Panasonic lent an HVX to the station to shoot with, but didn’t give us any media. What good is it then? Just bad.
The Apple Monstrosity. I personally love what they've done for computer and OEM manufacturers. They made computing cool, not just geeky. They made it "In" and acceptable, took it out of the glasses and pocket protector geek status, but their booth was SOOO loud, I actually couldn't wait to get away from them.
And of course, the size of the Las Vegas convention center is larger than the largest US aircraft carrier, and then some. Is it really neccesary to have all that under one roof? And as a former army guy, I wonder why the Army reserve needed a booth there? I think some have gone to far .The conventions planners should arrange to rent segways next yr or something like that. That would've been sweet. Or at least have a bunch of razors so we can all roll down the inclines and kill each other.
I’m sure I’ve missed out on a lot, I was editing, ALOT.
Marc
(underlines included)
Andi Loor
Andi
Marc Fisher skrev:
> Just a few quick rambling here from NAB, sorry if it's already been
> discussed. I couldn't read every word of the 398 DS List emails I had.
>
>
> *_The Good:
> _*
> *_The Coolest:
> _*The Discreet Area. They get an A+++ in my book for the booth and
> mood the set. Really well done, incredible cool.
>
> Those at the meat fest got to see Howard serenade us before we
> ingested various meats and bottles of beer. That was cool Howard.
>
> Everyone at the NAB-HD booth was there on a volunteer basis. Which
> means, NO Pay. A lot of hours by a lot of people. May not have been
> the financial best thing for all involved, but it something to think
> about what can be done by people who love what they do.
>
> *_The Bad:
> _*
> The DS spot. It is a shame that Avid's top of the line product had
> nothing more than the space a lemonade stand would take up. similar to
> what's Smacked on the endcap of a grocery store isle. You know, the
> discount foods type thing. There was One demo artist there. And you
> couldn’t here him. No wireless mic or audio reinforcements. But I
> guess that would have drowned out Apples horrifically loud display.
> And to tell you, it only had stuff that I know Bill Admans had worked
> on, so you know everything was going to look good and proper.
>
> Panasonic lent an HVX to the station to shoot with, but didn’t give us
> any media. What good is it then? Just bad.
>
> The Apple Monstrosity. I personally love what they've done for
> computer and OEM manufacturers. They made computing cool, not just
> geeky. They made it "In" and acceptable, took it out of the glasses
> and pocket protector geek status, but their booth was SOOO loud, I
> actually couldn't wait to get away from them.
>
> And of course, the size of the Las Vegas convention center is larger
> than the largest US aircraft carrier, and then some. Is it really
> neccesary to have all that under one roof? And as a former army guy, I
> wonder why the Army reserve needed a booth there? I think some have
> gone to far .The conventions planners should arrange to rent segways
> next yr or something like that. That would've been sweet. Or at least
> have a bunch of razors so we can all roll down the inclines and kill
> each other.
>
>
> I’m sure I’ve missed out on a lot, I _was_ editing, ALOT.
>
> Marc
>
> (underlines included)
> >
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Objet : NAB insights
I saw a working Blu-RAY DVD drive at the TDK booth, along with a few spools of 50Gig/25 gig/ and 10 gig media. Wow! 50 gig. Man! How many meat fest pics could I fit on that?
Working the NAB-HD booth I got to work the latest Dual Processor, Dual core G5 with the Kona 3 card and FCP5.1. I can only say, I wish Avid had the integration between apps like Apple has built into their apps, Apple's a lot more like Discreet products, in that sense, tight integration=nice & easy=Done. FCP is very fast on this machine, including HD. And the enormous monitor, I think it was a 30inch cinema display (there were no markings on it to tell me, and I didn't have a tape measure) it was huge, it made the 21inch cinema display look tiny. Speaking of tiny...
Panasonic had a working 103" Plasma screen. Yes, 103". Next to it were 2 65" plasmas that looked like postage stamps next to that behemoth. Wow! I'll take 1. How the heck do you pick that up at the store???
The new version of Premier pro/Adobe studio is just as nice. Using the matrox axio hardware. I didn't spend time on it, but the editor who did was very impressed with it. ( I just can't get used to the adobe interface). It was also on a 64bit 4 processor, AMD machine running 64bit windows. Ppro and AE 7 are VERY fast.
Final Touch, with the user control surface is sAweet. If I was using FCP on a pro job, and that was also going to be used for color correction, that would definitely be the way to go. The booth looked more like a pair of DaVinci sweets that an app using FCP XML. Nice.
Also at the TV station, we had the new 17" MacBook Pro. Again, fast. I mean, it's as fast as the current G5 desktops. (or nearly) can I place my order now please?
Those at the meat fest got to see Howard serenade us before we ingested various meats and bottles of beer. That was cool Howard.
Everyone at the NAB-HD booth was there on a volunteer basis. Which means, NO Pay. A lot of hours by a lot of people. May not have been the financial best thing for all involved, but it something to think about what can be done by people who love what they do.
The DS spot. It is a shame that Avid's top of the line product had nothing more than the space a lemonade stand would take up. similar to what's Smacked on the endcap of a grocery store isle. You know, the discount foods type thing. There was One demo artist there. And you couldn’t here him. No wireless mic or audio reinforcements. But I guess that would have drowned out Apples horrifically loud display. And to tell you, it only had stuff that I know Bill Admans had worked on, so you know everything was going to look good and proper.
Panasonic lent an HVX to the station to shoot with, but didn’t give us any media. What good is it then? Just bad.
The Apple Monstrosity. I personally love what they've done for computer and OEM manufacturers. They made computing cool, not just geeky. They made it "In" and acceptable, took it out of the glasses and pocket protector geek status, but their booth was SOOO loud, I actually couldn't wait to get away from them.
And of course, the size of the Las Vegas convention center is larger than the largest US aircraft carrier, and then some. Is it really neccesary to have all that under one roof? And as a former army guy, I wonder why the Army reserve needed a booth there? I think some have gone to far .The conventions planners should arrange to rent segways next yr or something like that. That would've been sweet. Or at least have a bunch of razors so we can all roll down the inclines and kill each other.
Marc
(underlines included)
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Rich Torpey
> Anyone see any legalizers that handle BOTH SD and HD input?
Videotek and Eyeheight for HD use. Both do a good job but we went with
the Eyeheight based on feature set and price- see
http://www.eyeheight.com/frontpage.asp or
http://www.eyeheight.com/Tech_Sheets%5CevolutionHD%5CLegalisers%5ClegalEyesHDiF_HDTV_legaliser_with_monitoring_output.pdf
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