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- On Fri, 7 Oct 1994 alan.chan@oubbs.telecom.uoknor.edu wrote:
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- > > At the risk of blowing my NDA.... Have any of you thought that there
- > > may be
- > > a really good reason for NewTek to not want to have machine control?
- > > Have
- > > any of you thought that there may be a really good reason why NewTek
- > > is
- > > touting the Flyer as an online solution, refusing to address offline
- > > work?
- >
- > Just got back from the Flyer demo in Dallas tonite.. It seems Newtek's stance
- > (or marketing strategy, whatever the fifty-cent word for it is) is that the
- > Flyer IS an online solution, and for them to make and include machine code or
- > EDL generation would confuse the issue and dilute the statement that they as a
- > company are trying to make..
- >
-
- Well, after spending hours with our new Fast Digital Player Recorder, the
- "flyer" for the VM Studio, there is no reason not to have machine control.
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- For instance, (and this is a very simple example) :
- We ordered a multi-gig 8mm tape drive for backing up the system for a
- couple thousand dollars. The idea is that clients can come in, do some
- editing, then we back up the footage to tape, and archive it. When they
- come back, we restore it, load the movie, and go.
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- Well, we realized that with the Fast, and it's machine control, as well
- as time code logging and clip logging, that it would be about 2-3 times
- faster just to redigitize all the clips than back them up and restore them.
- The DPR software has the capability to batch digitize ONLY the clips used
- in the movie, or all of the clips that you originally digitized or any
- combination.
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- With the flyer, we HAVE to back up the digital video data, cuz we can't
- really accurately redigitize without machine control. Of course, this is
- coming from speculation about the flyer, as we haven't gotten our beta
- unit which is "indefinitely" delayed due to "chip" problems.
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- Edward Smith
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