Here at Videomaker folks, and it's incredibly fun. Smaller than usual regarding vendors, and much, much larger than usual in terms of attendance. Does this mean more folks are in video than ever before? I guess so....
Hung out a bit with Jay Mitchell from the SoCal Vegas Users group.
It was a hell of a lot of fun poking at the Sonic Solutions rep here who on a large panel, commented that "You can't burn anything larger than 720 x 480 to a DVD, without our new WMV-HD technology that we invented for MS......We invented DVD authoring." Huh? For a 25K product, you'd think he'd know better.
First, Sonic didn't invent WMVHD, they've just incorporated support for it. And nothing currently plays it back, albeit that this will soon change.
Second, you can indeed burn larger images on a DVD.
Third, DVDA was able to do this long ago, not just a few weeks ago.
But the intensity of the discussion in front of about 300 people nearly appeared to be fodder for Jerry Springer, except none of us tore our clothes off and chased each other. Good thing, because Steve(Muratore, editor of VM) is a pretty small guy. I think between myself, the Ulead guy, and the Adobe guy, the disgust of the panel was pretty clear for the guys comments about how great Sonic Solutions non-solutions are. The guys from Intervideo, Ahead (Roxio) and 321 didn't know quite what to do, because they only make consumer-level authoring softwares and I don't think they quite understood some of what the discussion was about. One of the panelists wasn't even sure that the PC could author AC3 audio or MPEG4. Ouch!
Canon is hoppin' busy, so is ADS, same with Photoflex. Sony's not exhibiting here, nor is Ulead, Canopus, Adobe, Apple, or other big players, but that's due I think, to all companies having just returned from CES, Macworld, NAMM...But; I'm here showing Vegas for Sony, and on an NLE panel tomorrow against the industry's best. Hope some of you can show up here in Burbank in case I get into another face-fight. :-)
Photoflex has a couple new boxes and mounts that I'm really liking, most of the rest of the stuff here at the show is old news. Edirol has some new video switchers that DON'T work with DV cams...I tried them today. m(someone earlier said they would) But, their new little V-1 is very cute, and for those needing an S-Video switcher, it's quite nice, and even has some FX on the transitions.
Overall business seems to go to Canon and Photoflex here at the show. There are 2 resellers of Sony cams and they are getting lots of attention too, particularly the ones mounted on a variety of vehicle mounts on a Lincoln Continental outside the event center.
Great seeing everyone here, and hope to see more of you.
Hung out a bit with Jay Mitchell from the SoCal Vegas Users group.
It was a hell of a lot of fun poking at the Sonic Solutions rep here who on a large panel, commented that "You can't burn anything larger than 720 x 480 to a DVD, without our new WMV-HD technology that we invented for MS......We invented DVD authoring." Huh? For a 25K product, you'd think he'd know better.
First, Sonic didn't invent WMVHD, they've just incorporated support for it. And nothing currently plays it back, albeit that this will soon change.
Second, you can indeed burn larger images on a DVD.
Third, DVDA was able to do this long ago, not just a few weeks ago.
But the intensity of the discussion in front of about 300 people nearly appeared to be fodder for Jerry Springer, except none of us tore our clothes off and chased each other. Good thing, because Steve(Muratore, editor of VM) is a pretty small guy. I think between myself, the Ulead guy, and the Adobe guy, the disgust of the panel was pretty clear for the guys comments about how great Sonic Solutions non-solutions are. The guys from Intervideo, Ahead (Roxio) and 321 didn't know quite what to do, because they only make consumer-level authoring softwares and I don't think they quite understood some of what the discussion was about. One of the panelists wasn't even sure that the PC could author AC3 audio or MPEG4. Ouch!
Canon is hoppin' busy, so is ADS, same with Photoflex. Sony's not exhibiting here, nor is Ulead, Canopus, Adobe, Apple, or other big players, but that's due I think, to all companies having just returned from CES, Macworld, NAMM...But; I'm here showing Vegas for Sony, and on an NLE panel tomorrow against the industry's best. Hope some of you can show up here in Burbank in case I get into another face-fight. :-)
Photoflex has a couple new boxes and mounts that I'm really liking, most of the rest of the stuff here at the show is old news. Edirol has some new video switchers that DON'T work with DV cams...I tried them today. m(someone earlier said they would) But, their new little V-1 is very cute, and for those needing an S-Video switcher, it's quite nice, and even has some FX on the transitions.
Overall business seems to go to Canon and Photoflex here at the show. There are 2 resellers of Sony cams and they are getting lots of attention too, particularly the ones mounted on a variety of vehicle mounts on a Lincoln Continental outside the event center.
Great seeing everyone here, and hope to see more of you.