Re: smaller file

Okay Dave, this has gotten just a bit too out there and I am not going to let this one slide without a bit of "slappage" of my own...

You are entitled to your opinions. You are NOT entitled to bitch slap a guy as you have done to Andreas. Period.

You don't like his codec? Fine. That is your opinion. But there is a whole article, for example, in the new issue of Creative COW Magazine on why Mac users, in particular, would want to use it in cross-platform production environments. Can you spell "ProRes can't function in a cross-platform environment but Sheer can capture and create great looking images that *are* instantly available to their PC counterparts (and even other Mac users) who are working in the same production chain but don't have FCS2 on their machines"???

In our tests we found the Sheer codec was as much as 50-times faster than other lossless codecs. Our tester, David Battistella, found it to be nearly twice as fast as uncompressed. For a lossless codec that beats the crap out of many of those out there.

Is it perfect? No. I have yet to see anything that is.

And no, Andreas didn't buy an ad or ask us to do the article. We did the story as when we saw ProRes, it became clear to us that only those with the latest revision of FC Studio 2 were going to be able to read it -- other machines in the studio that may be running After Effects or older versions of FCP but don't have FC Studio 2, per se, and so can't use ProRes. Period.

Again, as I said earlier, there are no perfect solutions and I have yet to see one. But I have had it with people wanting to insult others and think that they have some god-given right to do so.

Think what you want but you hardly have all the answers, Dave. You may think you do but that is hardly the case...

And if you wish to insult me, then feel free but take your best shot because it will be your last...

Ron Lindeboom
creativecow.net, co-founder
Creative COW Magazine, publisher