Deferring to Nat's request that the thread is "getting boring and unrelated", I decided to start anew.
BillyBoy, your comment " ...the central issue that bugs me... namely the endless drum beat by a couple implying I use X which costs more, so by inference, I do better work than the next guy or I'm more professional than you are" is far off the mark. Please show me exactly where anyone here has ever said that.
Do you use Vegas to do paying work for clients or do you do stuff for yourself only? If it's paying work, is it for high-end clients ($$$) or low-end ones (¢¢¢)?
When you were in the accounting business, would your clients expect the same level of expertise from you versus a new college graduate? I don't think so.
The same analogy can be applied here. High-end clients expect that the work will be done to a much higher standard than something done for the family down the block. I'm not saying that anyone here (myself included) would do any less of a job for either. It's just that doing high-end work allows you to afford better equipment which, in turn, will increase production values. I regularly do several freebies for the staff at my kids' school and the teachers are blown away with the quality of the work. Am I that good? Not a chance. The problem is that the so-called video producers they're used to working with are that bad and, unfortunately, there's a lot of them out there. Kinda like the desktop publishing era :-(
Finally, I agree completely with your comment "However NOTHING trumps experience and talent." These words come up over and over again on every video form I've ever read and this forum is a good example of that. The members here have a lot of talent that's displayed here daily. I'd put most of what I see here up against anything done by so-called "Hollywood" professionals."
Mike
BillyBoy, your comment " ...the central issue that bugs me... namely the endless drum beat by a couple implying I use X which costs more, so by inference, I do better work than the next guy or I'm more professional than you are" is far off the mark. Please show me exactly where anyone here has ever said that.
Do you use Vegas to do paying work for clients or do you do stuff for yourself only? If it's paying work, is it for high-end clients ($$$) or low-end ones (¢¢¢)?
When you were in the accounting business, would your clients expect the same level of expertise from you versus a new college graduate? I don't think so.
The same analogy can be applied here. High-end clients expect that the work will be done to a much higher standard than something done for the family down the block. I'm not saying that anyone here (myself included) would do any less of a job for either. It's just that doing high-end work allows you to afford better equipment which, in turn, will increase production values. I regularly do several freebies for the staff at my kids' school and the teachers are blown away with the quality of the work. Am I that good? Not a chance. The problem is that the so-called video producers they're used to working with are that bad and, unfortunately, there's a lot of them out there. Kinda like the desktop publishing era :-(
Finally, I agree completely with your comment "However NOTHING trumps experience and talent." These words come up over and over again on every video form I've ever read and this forum is a good example of that. The members here have a lot of talent that's displayed here daily. I'd put most of what I see here up against anything done by so-called "Hollywood" professionals."
Mike