Re: Hey! I have an idea!

[msacci] "hearing both sides helps one to get a clear picture. :-)"

Definitely. With editing, people are always trying to get "the best quality possible" with prosumer cameras. Whenever I hear that I always think, "If you need the best quality possible, then why didn't you shoot on a professional camera?" I know, because they couldn't afford it.

I totally respect where the pros are coming from. There really are minimum system requirements for accurate color grading and it is more than just opening Color. And it's not cheap, but it's required.

Newbies on the other hand don't have the equipment and don't want to drop $15-$30k to buy it. That's more than some of them make in a year doing film. They've been using FCP's CC tools and now have Color and want to start playing around.

To the Pros: Be nice to the newbies. After all, they are newbies.

To the Newbies: Respect the pros. After all, they are pros and know what they're talking about.

Pros are going to do their thing and Newbies are going to do theirs.

I don't know where I was really going with this, but I hope we can stop having these super long discussions about it and just get on with life like the rest of the forums do.

-Russ