Re: How does this change anything?

[Hans von Sonntag] "I have the feeling that you never had the opportunity to learn Smoke thoroughly and gave it a ride in real projects. "

Never been exposed to the application until now. For me, up to this point, editing has been in FCP plus some Media Composer, grading in FT2K, then COLOR, now Resolve (as I am more familiarly identified as a colorist), FX in SHAKE, roto/tracking in MochaPro.... round tripping is not a mystery to me, or maybe I've just gotten used to it over the past 6 years or so that I have been tormented with it. Yes, very often under deadline and with someone breathing in the background.

Understand that I am playing devil's advocate a little bit in this discussion, wondering if the admittedly low price point (which I could likely make back in a week) is all that is holding me back from simply consolidating what I'm used to anyway; node-based, or not is not an issue for me. Makes more sense than "layering up" effects in some ways, but that may be down to individual thought process.

I will definitely have a play with it, I'm glad I have a spare Quadro4000 hanging around, and a Kona3 -- seems like my #2 system might have some life left in it, after all, instead of being an ingest/output/compressor droid.

How will it be license controlled? Dongle? MAC address? I'd be thrilled if it were portable.

jPo

You mean "Old Ben"? Ben Kenobi?