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To: HerbVic who wrote (24167)	4/19/1999 4:05:00 PM
From: Richard Habib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

Check out this Money Flow site. It runs behind so data is of Thursday after earnings. Shows very strong block buying. Be interesting to see how this looks at the end of the week. Go to Daily and positive block flow. Rich trading-ideas.com

To: HerbVic who wrote (24167)	4/19/1999 4:07:00 PM
From: Ralph Deen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

Herbie....Final Cut appears to be positioned in the sweet spot...midway between the Avid/Media 100 professional systems and the consumer systems on the lower end of the scale. >>does is require the entire video to be edited from the hard drive?<< Dunno. Most pro systems do. You digitize the material from its source...onto a (usually external) hard drive...then do your editing. I'm very interested in Final Cut...and have put off a pending purchase of a NLE system to see what it'll do. Down-loaded Apple's Quick Time movie on Final Cut this morning...but got no audio. Bummer. We'll see. Meantime....regards. Long AAPL. rd

To: HerbVic who wrote (24167)	4/19/1999 4:10:00 PM
From: J R KARY	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

Maybe why AAPL opened QT to IBM for use in their servers IBM customer Sony , who S Jobs adires , keynoted the NAB with a call to accept digital media in communications : " ... digital media and new technologies are rapidly changing the face of broadcasting and communications--is on the minds of the roughly 100,000 industry members at this year's conference. Stringer followed his point with a call to arms, warning that broadcasters had better "stop crying into your Chardonnay about lost share" and get moving into developing partnerships, standards, and content for high-definition television and other emerging technologies. " news.com IBM announced a PowerPC board last week which may be a hardware element that could interact with QT , or better yet it would permit a AAPL server to be interfaced with IBM's AIX OS. Hopefully an AIX interface for AAPL Server OS X is part of the QT deal . Music videos ? QT maybe with sound (R Deen's post) ? Jim K.

To: HerbVic who wrote (24167)	4/20/1999 3:02:00 AM
From: Dragonfly	Respond to of 213177

Not being from the video producing and editing industry, I'm not either, but it is a hobby of mine. Forgive the visionary talk, but in short: There is a revolution going on in the moving image industry. Across the board, Digital technology is taking over from analog (film.) On the high end, The Phantom Menace was shot in part digitally and will be displayed in some theaters completely digitally. Lucas believes the third film will be completely digital from beginning to end, with no film actually used at all. On the consumer end, this is manifesting itself in "Prosumer" cameras such as the Cannon XLR (I think thats the name) and Sony VX1000 which have firewire output, and are completely digital. For editing you download your data over Firewire onto your hard drive. From there on, all editing and manipulation is done in the digital domain. This is far superior to the quality you get with VHS, which involves 2 to 3 degradations in quality as you copy your video. This is why home videos are either unedited or low quality. If you wanted decent quality you had to spend a lot on very high resolution a/d and very high bandwidht data storage devices. Final Cut Pri is the first application, (in theory, I haven't used it) to bring the high level features of dedicated editing stations to the low end (ie, off the shelf) technology you get with current Macintoshes. The result is you can buy a Mac, take it home, hook up your miniDV camera and make new broadcast quality video productions without a lot of add-on peripherals. It is FAR FAR more difficult to do this on the PC side, though people like Sony can make sure their products work this way off the shelf. Final Cut Pro, however, will not be a Windows app which will work to stem the tide of people being seduced by the lies of Microsoft as it attemtps to take over this very same market. (Luckily, not many are switching to the dark side.) Dragonfly