Flag to the mast.
I work for Image Systems and we make the Nucoda range of colour grading tools.
However I am also a colourist and started as online editor on Avid DS, and have been around longer than I care to admit.
Bottom line, say what you want, clients want to pay less. To be realistic, the old "operator is the key" rhetoric is to make operators feel better (I say the same), clients will happily try and do it themselves, look what happened to "offline" editors....we are storytellers they cried, it is an art (and it is), but directors just started hacking their own stuff together anyway, now they will grade it as well.
As for support question raised in the last post.
I am proud of the research we do into working with other systems, and I am always open as to what is possible and what not with a system, unfortunately support and development for professionally used software costs money...and thats the bottom line.
Patrick Morgan
Patrick Morgan
Media Product Specialist
http://www.imagesystems.tv
