Apple and broadcast TV

[Beamtracer]

Story on the Creative Mac website about Apple's new products, released last week at the NAB convention. (4 pages)

http://www.creativemac.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=25159

Apple is becoming a really dominant player in the broadcast TV industry. Their new products will make them even stronger.

Other companies, especially Avid, will be hit hard, as Apple now owns the broadcast video editing market.

[Oddgit]

i wouldnt say owns, all of the TV stations i have been to, and the one i work at(TechTV) all use Avid, and this Avid app for news editing,

[Darth Mole]

I don't see Apple making many inroads into UK TV, or European TV for that matter. The BBC is dominated by PCs, running Avid Media Composer or Symphony, some FAST systems and Quantel products. It doesn't even use Quicktime for its video downloads...

I love your enthusiasm Beam, but not your sweeping generalisations

[Darth Mole]

(oops - duplicate post)

[Oddgit]

all of the studios here use DigiBeta or BetaSP and with out tons of extras FinalCut dosnt do beta. At techTV we will shoot random location stuff on an XL one but most of the stuff we do is DVCAM or higher.

[MercrunneR]

Originally posted by Oddgit
with out tons of extras FinalCut dosnt do beta.

Not true at all. With an the IO, you can effectively scale to any standard def signal, uncompressed, using only firewire. You just need a good hard drive (which an avid would need anyway). All told, it's a hell of a lot less expensive (and a more diverse workstation) than a media composer. We just got one at work, and it kicks.

[Oddgit]

what IO are you refiring to? the Aura cards? just to ecpand my knowledge i had heard of them but i thought they were for RT effects and capture, i didnt know whty worked with BetaSP too.

[MercrunneR]

The AJA IO has multiple analog interfaces and a deck controller.

Take a look... (http://www.aidinc.com/products/nle/aja_io.asp)

It's... it's so beautiful *sniff* *dries his eye*

[Oddgit]

it is beautiful..... wow.
all i have is a formac studio and would like to have a MiniDV deck so i can print to DV for projects i do at school and wiht my friends.
any good pointers for the MiniDV deck?

[MercrunneR]

Sony makes good DV decks. Make sure it's able to handle more advanced codecs like 24P. You'll thank yourself later.

[Oddgit]

yeah i definatly wanteda 24p deck, all of my animations come out at 24 fps. im trying to finish up my studio before i graduate, i still would like to get a 2nd display, and a TV for previewing images on.