Canon, Avid, and RED, oh my!
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in this industry over that past 20 years is that no matter how much I think
I might know what new technology is coming around the corner, the fact
is, there’s always a few surprises when new stuff actually is announced.
Last Thursday (November 3, 2011), there were three major announcements from industry players, in this order: Avid, Canon and RED. To my surprise, none of the announcements played out as I would have expected. This is neither good or bad, it just caught me off guard.
Avid in the morning — Media Composer 6
Avid started the day out with its “live” video stream of their Media
Composer 6 announcement. Let’s get one thing out of the way first; the
Media Composer 6 update by Avid release is huge. It’s awesome. It’s a
home run. I’m extremely looking forward to upgrading. The biggest thing
for me is AJA Kona 3 hardware support. The refresh to 64-bit is nice
too, although it’ll be a short while for any plugins you have to upgrade
to 64-bit as well.
Okay, so what was so surprising about Avid’s announcement? It wasn’t
the Media Composer 6 update itself that was so weird, it was how Avid
announced it. You had to pre-register on Avid’s website to watch the
live feed of this announcement. So me, like many others, was expecting
to see a live broadcast from a stage somewhere in the world showing off
all the cool new features of Media Composer 6. Instead, it was a
pre-recorded, edited soapbox snoozfest on boring marketing slop, which
included testimonials of people that most people don’t even know. read more...
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