In the commercial production world, surely there must be some influence from the client side on these turnkey systems, since they interact directly with the comp artist in the suite. Thus, it isn't necessarily about how expensive or good the software is or even how proficient the artist is, but the conventions of what the agency reps are used to. They like the big fancy suite with the big fancy platter of pastries, and the big fancy turnkey box, and the look and feel of the Flame/Inferno interface they've been watching for years.
This naturally doesn't apply to film, where there is rarely live interaction at this stage. So the comp artist is free to go off and work in Nuke/AE/Fusion or whatever and only interact during review sessions. On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Emilio Hernandez <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't believe DS is doomed because of being attached to the windows > platform. In Mexico, when it started being a Softimage product, several > were sold. I bought one. It was a better software than Inferno IMHO, and > a lot of bucks below. To have an Inferno it not only meant the silicon > mainframe as it was kind of a NASA computer to launch the Apollo XIII. The > whole suite configuration to have an Inferno suite was around $1,000,000. > While mounting a DS suite was around $150,000. > > If Avid had treated the DS with the respect it deserved instead of > something coming out from a stock exchange between Avid and Microsoft, the > outcome would be quite a different story. > > I am still using the DS for on-line and I still love it above now AD > pirotechnics. > > Now that Avid move it away from being a turnkey system which would only > work with Avid hardware and it's selling for 10 grand compared to a Smoke > solution of $120,000 for the real thing, let's see what happens. > > Comping work is now done 95% on side platforms like Nuke, Fusion, After > Effects, etc. Than in the old mighty Inferno, Flame, etc. > > I believe that now the DS solution has more life to go than AD > pyrotechnics. As it integrates better from the editing to finishing > pipeline and delivery pipeline. > > Cheers. > > > 2013/8/6 Luc-Eric Rousseau <[email protected]> > >> doomed from the start by its deep attachment to the Windows platform. >> >> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 4:51 AM, Fabrice Altman <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > I think Luc-Eric did ‘a bit of work’ on that as well. >> >> >> http://provideocoalition.com/ssimmons/story/it-looks-like-avid-is-finally-going-lay-ds-to-rest >> >> > > > -- > >
