Re: Evan Schechtman @RadicalMedia - The State of the NLE - recorded a few days before NAB

I hole heartily agree with Evan on the negatives of the RAW/native workflow touted by Adobe. As the deadline nears is when you need the system to be fastest and get the product out without hassles. The time saved by not transcoding to a common codec will be forgotten. The issues and time required to render, with the deadline and impatient client looming, is what will be foremost. A common optimized codec will help with media playback and speed export. This is why Adobe's lack of it's own optimized codec is a big disadvantage for me.

We can take some time on the front end if it speeds up the back end. There's rarely time to spare or patience toward the end of a project.

Apple and Avid would seem to agree on this point.

John