A Poll about WWDC and Blu-Ray

[Tallest Skil]

stop flapping - you said Final Cut which as you well know only runs on Macs

No. Taken straight from the Final Cut Server page.

 

[toke lahti]

I didn't say "using Macs". I said "Apple software".

Like some clip was previewed with QTplayer?
Vast majority of big motion pictures are still edited with Avid.

 

[jamesdmc]

I don't understand all the fuss about blue-ray. I find that DVDs are plenty clear and crisp and heck, when I rip them I don't even rip the full resolution I always down it a little to save space.

Two words: home theater. Watching standard definition DVD on 40" diagonal flat screen TV does indeed look okay, assuming the DVD was mastered properly and you have a decent TV. But take that same DVD and project it onto a 10-foot wide (or larger) screen and you start to see the limitations of 480p. And to make matters worse, if you compress that 480p signal to save space on your hard drive, compression artifacts can show up in your projected image. Project a 1080p DVD on a 10-ft wide screen and you'll see what the fuss is about. I'm heavily into home theater and have flown around the country to several home theater meets. The hosts don't even show standard definition DVDs anymore. It's all hi-def, and because blu-ray won the war, it's all blu-ray.

I wouldn't mind purchasing a hi-def movie and downloading it to a hard drive with the option to burn it to disc, but as has been mentioned in this thread, I think its going to be harder to implement and will take longer to implement on a large scale than most think.

Personally, I strip out all the stuff I don't want, but leave the movie uncompressed. Then again, I have 1.4 terabytes of space to store it all so space is not that big of a concern for me.

James

 

[fluidedge]

No. Taken straight from the Final Cut Server page.

You're just being silly now - stop trying to dig yourself out of a hole and accept that others know more about this than you. I know you think you are the oracle on all things mac but you really aren't.

You said final cut studio. Not server. Server has only been released this spring and even Hollywood studios wouldn't have been using it until then, even now i bet they're still testing it (if at all) rather than using it in their workflow.

 

[Tallest Skil]

You're just being silly now - stop trying to dig yourself out of a hole and accept that others know more about this than you. I know you think you are the oracle on all things mac but you really aren't.

You said final cut studio. Not server. Server has only been released this spring and even Hollywood studios wouldn't have been using it until then, even now i bet they're still testing it (if at all) rather than using it in their workflow.

Keep your pants on. Personal insults are grounds for... coffee.

It's Final Cut, it's made by Apple, it's used for movies. My quote from before was directly from the Apple site.