Bill: My congratulations to your friend and I am heartwarmed that you've gotten someone to agree with you. However, you are both wrong.
Who is your friend? What's his phone number? If he is real I'd like to discuss this with him. I am one who prides himself on keeping current with my industry. If I need to be corrected, who better to correct me than an award winning director.
BTW, we were discussing Televison and Video production. Cannes is a film festival.
I am in agreement that digital is taking over TV production. I have not edited on tape since 1991. I was one of the first non-linear editors in New York.
Betacam is still the video aquisition system used most in electronic filming. There has been Digital Betacam recording for almost 2 years now.
The Video Toaster (Amiga based effects and graphics system) never gained a significant ground in Broadcast Television. It was most popular as a non-broadcast device. There were some quality issues with the output and it was slower and less versatile than the deidcated boxes made by Ampex, Grass Valley, Sony and Scitex.
The Amiga went under about four years ago if you haven'y heard. Newtek, the manufacturer of the Toaster, has now ported their software to the Wintel platform. (Score one for you). But it still has not made inroads into the BROADCAST market, which is still dominated by effects systems running on SGIs, Quantel boxes or Macs (very recently). (SGI owns the high end).
For the record, I do not now nor have I ever owned any of this gear. I am a freelance editor. My clients include (this year only) PBS, MTV, Discovery, Nickelodeon, Disney Channel and VH-1. Every(and I mean every) non-linear system owned by these clients run on Macs. WNET in New York alone has 20 plus Avids now and will have 40 by the end of 1998. They also have one or more Media 100's (Mac based).
Again for the record, I do not now nor have I ever owned Apple stock. I started lurking on this board because I am considering buying AAPL.
I have no vested interest in pushing Apple. I merely made a comment that Macs have been the dominant personal computer used in Broadcast Television Post-Production, specifically non-linear editing systems.
This has been true for a number of years true and continues to be true today. The only PC competition in Broadcast market has been from lightworks and they have no where near the market share of Avid. The other major Wintel based system, D-Vision is targeted mostly toward a Corporate video Market. The original PC based system. the EMC2 (which I used for more than 3 years) was a good system, but it is no longer manufactured.
I do however, personally own two Macs. But I also own a Gateway Win 95 box.
I don't know where you are coming up with your information, but it is vague and not accurate. Please post your sources if you can.
Regards,
Tony |
