Streamlined workflows in and out of VT and SE

[Keith Nealy]

I have heard a lot of talk lately and comparisons with all the other editors about advanced features for effects or audio, etc. Avid, FCP, Edius, Vegas, etc.

We need to come to grips with the fact that we will probably never have those.

What we do have, however, is the fastest editor that will handle more than any other in terms of resolutions and frame rates which is going to be very important in HD productions that need to make use of the existing footage in your library.

What we should be focusing on is streamlined workflows in and out of VT and SE to other apps.

If we look at VT/SE as the best "roughcut" editors for complicated productions - what is the best way to achieving finishing?

VT/SE will never be as good as AfterEffects or Nuendo or Encore. What we need is creative solutions on how to get from here to there and back.

All ideas are welcome.

Let the games begin.

Aloha,

Keith :cool:

[UnCommonGrafx]

My thoughts...

LWConnect is the ideal way to work, workflow-wise, in a back and forth scenario. Select just a portion of the timeline and send it out to some app than get it back in the same place. This is how it's done with any other nle that seamlessly works with other apps.
To be able to select some app, from a list, to export a portion of the timeline would be the most welcomed workflow enhancement I could see. Having to take the whole timeline, as a rendered clip of some kind, out to other apps only to have to find that one place is such a time-waster.

So, for me it's more about making sure the sdk is up to snuff to allow this type of thing to occur more readily. But this is also the reason we don't have many of these things now. I don't want it to be as good as any of those apps; I want it to seamlessly work with those apps without an arm and a leg of research time or money.

[Keith Nealy]

I hear you Robert but how realistic is it for us to think that NewTek and AfterEffects can have the same relationship as VT and LW Connect?

You and Bob worked within a "family" to create an integration. How realistic is it to expect a "Rodney King" relationship with other companies?

"Come on - Adobe, Nuendo, Protools, Boris.... can't we all just get along?"

It would be nice, but as editors we need solution now... while we wait for nirvana.

aloha,

keith

BTW, will SE work with LWConnect and a stand alone copy iof LW?