Comments for Splice Now

Comment on Tip #6 – Enlarge Waveforms by David M. Lasley

David M. Lasley — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:55:26 +0000

Great post. I especially found it useful, thanks.

Comment on The Right to Be Forgotten by Phil Miles

Phil Miles — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:39:36 +0000

It won’t be an easy bill to pass. Companies and Marketing Agencies depend on this data to target their customers. Because of the internet they can gather so much data about current and potential customers, if taken away, they would be guessing. Is it right? not sure, but these companies make a lot of money and they won’t go without a fight.

Comment on The Right to Be Forgotten by Judith Allen

Judith Allen — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:28:19 +0000

I would engage so much more with websites if they only requested the permissions that they needed to integrate with Facebook/ Twitter etc – rather than wanting read, write, disseminate access for every aspect of my account. That’s just an instant no.

Of course, permissions can be revoked but by that point the data has been harvested by the third party. This proposal makes a good deal of sense – and will likely never pass.

Comment on The Right to Be Forgotten by ed

ed — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:49:12 +0000

‘RIght to be forgotten’ should already have been made law a long time ago. It’s difficult to track how much personal data you give everyday to a website. It should actually be the case not only online and at all the shops we buy goods.

Comment on Avid Agility and Media Composer 5.5 by John Moss

John Moss — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:18:49 +0000

looks good
I am taking a class at CSULB that instructor is Professor Jack Tucker.

thanks,

John Moss
CSULB 2011

Comment on Final Cut X vs. Media Composer 6 Podcast by Nivardo Cavalcante

Nivardo Cavalcante — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:30:13 +0000

Your group in Facebook Avid Brasil is an good place.

Comment on Final Cut X vs. Media Composer 6 Podcast by ed

ed — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:24:30 +0000

The podcast was about FCP in general. It’s really what people use here in Recife apart from TV Globo. I hope that changes. I need an assistant and it’s pretty hard to find one that knows any avid. I think Avid’s new position and the demise of FCP through FCPX will help a lot.

Comment on Final Cut X vs. Media Composer 6 Podcast by NivardoNivardo Cavalcante

NivardoNivardo Cavalcante — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:48:17 +0000

I’m from northern Brazil (Belém) for several years and did consulting for various post-production houses, and I even use FCP (7) in my job, not X. Very soon I’ll be moving to Avid, for while still evaluating the trial version. But one of my clients with 05 MacPro Octa will all be migrated to Avid MC 6.

Comment on Final Cut X vs. Media Composer 6 Podcast by ed

ed — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:35:51 +0000

And yeah… adopting portuguese as one of the phrase find languages would help as well ;-).

Comment on Final Cut X vs. Media Composer 6 Podcast by ed

ed — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:33:26 +0000

There are of corse a lot of piracy on, say…freelance editors, directors. But the companies, they hold real legal licenses. The interesting thing is that there was a point when we had only analog u-matic editing machines and then, media 100 and FCP. So, there was a leapfrog jump. I guess the point is that there is a range of price that gets feasible for a company to become legal. The best production houses here have matrox, or blackmagic equipment, so that you get an idea. The other really interesting bit is that there’s a lot of funding from the government (tax breaks etc), around 100 million dollars last year alone, so there is a market and people are willing to make films. it’s not like students or hobbyists, there just isn’t enough money to access a full fledge avid station. And since import taxes are really high, going for an open system is the way to go for Avid. Much easier to penetrate in this market. I think they should do like Microsoft/pharmaceutical companies and have diferentiated prices for developing countries until they reach a critical mass. The goal is the market share. (Be aware that the south of Brazil is really well developed and it’s much easier to see avid MC’s floating around.)