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To: HerbVic who wrote (24180)	4/19/1999 7:51:00 PM
From: Andrew Danielson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213177

<<Is it too grainy for television production? Where will it be used?>> I'll admit to not having seeing Final Cut in person yet, but from what I understand of it, its main competition comes from Adobe Premiere and Radius (now Digital Origin) EditDV. The program also has some compositing/layering features that make it look like a cross between Premiere and After Effects. Now, if you're talking about television broadcasting editing or offline editing for film, the Premiere/EditDV level of program typically is not used. There you get the Avid systems, Media 100, and other proprietary turnkey systems. Premiere/EditDV, beyond hobbyists, are also popular with lower-end professional video producers (corporate video, wedding videographers, etc.) The difference between the high end and the middle has little to do with quality issues ("graininess" as you say). It has more to do with the application's feature set and speed in rendering. Avid and Media 100 systems are not just software, either. They have multiple PCI cards that handle the uploading of the video and its acceleration in the rendering process. I hope I made things a little bit clearer, Andrew

To: HerbVic who wrote (24180)	4/20/1999 3:12:00 AM
From: Dragonfly	Respond to of 213177

Then what is the target market? Is it too grainy for television production? Where will it be used? The target market extends from Television Production that needs quick editing, including film production to do rough cuts of dailies at higher quality and lower cost... all the way down to kids with a camcorder who want to make home movies. The kids with a camcorder won't buy a $1,000 application, but cheaper ones will be developed. I do know a law firm, for instance, that bought a blue G3 box for just this application- they need to do video for use in courtrooms. This convergence of video and computers and the explosion of price/performance that comes with inexpensive completely digital production means that video will push into a much wider part of the market. as the channels and outlets for video explodes... so will teh suction on content producers. 5 years from now where you have websites devoted to specific topics (like collecters of gremlins) you will have internet based video channels run by amatures at high quality devoted to these topics. Dragonfly