I hate the Velocity interface on Leitch's dpsVelocity. I work well with visual stimulus, i.e. in a visual fashion and hence, find video editing stimulating. Imagine my surprise to visit the Screen Gems studio where a pal had offered to let me test drive their Velocity only to discover that on the timeline, there are no picons (picture icons) associated with video clips . . . that's right, the clips or events asociated with video get only a gray non-image - and text descriptions of the clips. Meanwhile, graphic resources 'do' get a picon associated with the clip on the timeline. Is there a more obtuse possible way to navigate a graphical environment than tiny text lines? Anyway, when I queried them about this, all I got was a song and dance about onerous licensing terms with the inventors of the timeline/picon metaphor - imagine that!
In the end, it was a deal breaker and I didn't purchase from Leitch (especially when you consider what it cost to prime me to buy their system - due to their elegant and inventive "Stream Anywhere" advertising campaign) . . . their loss. SoFo via Vegas got my money instead (though it's a mere pitance compared to what I've spent between workstation, Laird 4-way Edit Router, proMAX DA-MAX+, etc.) as an ongoing though integral part of creating an edit bay for Vegas. Boy, I sure hope Vegas makes the grade and becomes a serious player around here. What I've seen so far makes me glad for the effort - on their part and mine!
Yes, a doodle is synonymous with "piece of cake" - though I would never go so far as to venture a guess on how long it would take him if he got interested. The main thing would be, "Is there sfficient interest to make it worth his while?" We're talking of a guy who does freelance coding for such heavyweights in the industry as Image North (Inscriber) and Leitch (yup, for the DPS hardware) where he has more than a passing familiarity with the SDK which constitute the keys to the kingdom so to speak.
I guess you could say it depends on what interest is expressed here but in any case, it was just a spur of the moment query . . . well, I don't really have a dog in this fight, I was just curious what folks thought. I was kinda interested in the idea if it was feasible) since having hardware would eliminate the rendering steps (or so I hoped) which would make things more immediate. I was thinking perhaps existing DPS users would then flock to buy VV - since the Velocity interface sucks.
In the end, it was a deal breaker and I didn't purchase from Leitch (especially when you consider what it cost to prime me to buy their system - due to their elegant and inventive "Stream Anywhere" advertising campaign) . . . their loss. SoFo via Vegas got my money instead (though it's a mere pitance compared to what I've spent between workstation, Laird 4-way Edit Router, proMAX DA-MAX+, etc.) as an ongoing though integral part of creating an edit bay for Vegas. Boy, I sure hope Vegas makes the grade and becomes a serious player around here. What I've seen so far makes me glad for the effort - on their part and mine!
Yes, a doodle is synonymous with "piece of cake" - though I would never go so far as to venture a guess on how long it would take him if he got interested. The main thing would be, "Is there sfficient interest to make it worth his while?" We're talking of a guy who does freelance coding for such heavyweights in the industry as Image North (Inscriber) and Leitch (yup, for the DPS hardware) where he has more than a passing familiarity with the SDK which constitute the keys to the kingdom so to speak.
I guess you could say it depends on what interest is expressed here but in any case, it was just a spur of the moment query . . . well, I don't really have a dog in this fight, I was just curious what folks thought. I was kinda interested in the idea if it was feasible) since having hardware would eliminate the rendering steps (or so I hoped) which would make things more immediate. I was thinking perhaps existing DPS users would then flock to buy VV - since the Velocity interface sucks.