His uses and views are very similar to how I feel about this whole situation. While
@RadicalMedia is much bigger and does much "higher end" visible work than we do, the methodologies are the same. We do not use Smoke, but the whole workflow looks very familiar as well as the thought and process behind them.
I will also say that I feel the same way about his observations on the different NLEs.
This is a user's perspective. This is what I like it about it, we are speaking the same language, cuss words and all. If you need the marketing speak, there's tons of it. Everywhere. And sure, we now know he's had the advantage of getting sneak peeks at future tech versions.
This is not a corporate stand up; this is not specifically attuned to one company or product and he obviously has a preference as any user typically does. I think a lot of his observations are spot on, probably because I agree with them, and I could see how this presentation might not be beneficial to the sizzle core crowd.
His overall point is not about screaming performance, or what I like to refer to as sizzle cores, but it's more about interconnectivity, collaboration, and fast drives on smaller computers, even if you have to use hot glue every once in a while to make it "professional".
The overall capability has increased with "lesser power" or perhaps more portable machines. I guess it's all about how you slice it. Flexibility and portability might not be important to everyone, but I will tell you it is to me personally, more and more, especially for the near future. And really, that Thunderbolt graphic tells it all. People keep harping on bandwidth, and yes it's true you can crowd the bandwidth of Thunderbolt, but with another controller, you won't. Yes, there's GPU concerns, but how many MacPro people are running multiple GPUs today, honestly? PC people, who has really bought a Tesla system in these forums for your NLE?
Thanks for posting this, Craig.
Jeremy
