Mental Quandary
11-29-2006, 04:09 PM
I am quite concerned. We are only a few months away from NAB 2007 (April 16-19). Would you believe that is just about 5 months.
When I first became a Raving fanatic about NEWTEK and its products the Toaster card for Amiga was already shipping. I remember the news of the flyer non-linear editing card that would soon come out to REVOLUTIONIZE the video industry. My Flyer arrived between Christmas and New Years that same year.
Yes Newtek made an important mark with innovative products and amazing customer support.
It seems now that PC based programs are the mainstay of Newtek's programming arsenal the mantra of software based power and no limit to future features and capabilities has really tested the loyalty of a large number of what used to be fanatics.
Newtek products are very cool and well thought out for certain types of work flow. But the practice of promotion of a product that is destined to make next years ship date is way too old now.
No one is saying that the VT4, Tricaster (pro) or even the up coming SpeedEDIT do not have a place in the industry. The key issue is that by the time they ship the editing features, compositing functions, CG titling which was so carefully advertised and promoted can be found in more common or already off the shelf product by other manufacturers. Before I am totally berated for that comment, I am not claiming a feature for feature comparison.
SpeedEDIT will never be an AVID Composer system. It was not meant to be, as far I can tell. But for real speed it should live up to its name with less overall headaches from multi formatted sources.
Very little out there compares to the Tricaster line of product for live or streaming control at sub $7000 price tags. Saying that the stripped nature of editing software provided would make most editors think twice about spending much time for serious projects in its environment.
The overall lack of broad support for sound plug in and manipulation, third party filters for visual effects is either a lack of program handles to allow correct support or the fact that Newtek has always tended to use more proprietary codec and manipulation schemes forefront in its development.
By the time SpeedEDIT and VT5 ship, what could Newtek offer at NAB in 2007.
The programmers won't have enough time to even rough in anything new. The ship dates keep getting farther off, they seem to time themselves with new and faster hardware availability.
Yes, for live control, streaming of media I am still a Newtek Fanatic. For serious editing, compositing, CG titling, DVD authoring . . . . why ignore so many tools that are written and are shipping. Business can only run by using tools that work and are available now.
When I first became a Raving fanatic about NEWTEK and its products the Toaster card for Amiga was already shipping. I remember the news of the flyer non-linear editing card that would soon come out to REVOLUTIONIZE the video industry. My Flyer arrived between Christmas and New Years that same year.
Yes Newtek made an important mark with innovative products and amazing customer support.
It seems now that PC based programs are the mainstay of Newtek's programming arsenal the mantra of software based power and no limit to future features and capabilities has really tested the loyalty of a large number of what used to be fanatics.
Newtek products are very cool and well thought out for certain types of work flow. But the practice of promotion of a product that is destined to make next years ship date is way too old now.
No one is saying that the VT4, Tricaster (pro) or even the up coming SpeedEDIT do not have a place in the industry. The key issue is that by the time they ship the editing features, compositing functions, CG titling which was so carefully advertised and promoted can be found in more common or already off the shelf product by other manufacturers. Before I am totally berated for that comment, I am not claiming a feature for feature comparison.
SpeedEDIT will never be an AVID Composer system. It was not meant to be, as far I can tell. But for real speed it should live up to its name with less overall headaches from multi formatted sources.
Very little out there compares to the Tricaster line of product for live or streaming control at sub $7000 price tags. Saying that the stripped nature of editing software provided would make most editors think twice about spending much time for serious projects in its environment.
The overall lack of broad support for sound plug in and manipulation, third party filters for visual effects is either a lack of program handles to allow correct support or the fact that Newtek has always tended to use more proprietary codec and manipulation schemes forefront in its development.
By the time SpeedEDIT and VT5 ship, what could Newtek offer at NAB in 2007.
The programmers won't have enough time to even rough in anything new. The ship dates keep getting farther off, they seem to time themselves with new and faster hardware availability.
Yes, for live control, streaming of media I am still a Newtek Fanatic. For serious editing, compositing, CG titling, DVD authoring . . . . why ignore so many tools that are written and are shipping. Business can only run by using tools that work and are available now.