Cummon Tone:
Do you really think that the Users of DS sit and reread the manuals
each time a new version of software is released.
Perhaps a better way to have done it would be to send out a "updated
workflows / amendments since the last version of software" document.
Simon
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From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM on behalf of Tony Quinsee-Jover
Sent: Fri 26/08/2005 10:12
To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: RE: Live Capture
Well, as for things being flagged up to users.....
The V7.6 Capture And Output Guide
Pages 48 and 49 - "Performing a Live Capture"
On page 49 between steps 10 and 11 is.... a big exclamation mark with
a note next to it which states "It is very important to assign a
unique name to every tape because Avid DS Nitris uses it to identify
the captured media"
On Page 50 - "Capturing Audio through a Microphone"
Step 8 states "Select other capture settings. See "Logging and
Capturing Clips from Tape" on Page 39"
Personally, I never realised that DS wouldn't overwrite material
captured live prior to v7.6. The reason I never realised it was that
this has always been a golden rule on DS - "A unique tape name for
every tape, otherwise select 'Manual Reel' ". So I've had a reel
called "Mic" for years, which is a manual reel. I didn't even realise
I didn't have to.
What's really being said here is that some folks have been taking
advantage of what was effectively a bug but that bug has now been
addressed.
Perhaps it could be argued that Avid should have flagged up this
change more loudly, but how were they to know that people were using
what was effectively a bug as a part of their regular workflow?
Regards,
Tone :)
At 09:20 26/08/2005, you wrote:
I can see how this would be beneficial, but Russ is correct
in saying that implementing a feature like this, which can and did
have devastating consequences should be flagged up to the users who
have to deal with the client fall out
Simon Graham
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From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM on behalf of Tony Quinsee-Jover
Sent: Fri 26/08/2005 09:17
To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Live Capture
How is adding a long-requested feature "breaking the code" ?
T.
At 22:53 25/08/2005, you wrote:
in other words, they break something, and call it a
new feature.
who is this... microsoft???
david friedman
On Thursday, August 25, 2005, at 03:28 PM, Russ
Grycza wrote:
Hi Paul -
I agree that a change like this with
potentially devastaing consequences should have received a BIG notice
in the update literature. People have been used to live mode not
overwriting previously captured clips, and for it to suddenly start
overwriting would be a big shock.
That being said, it is a feature many people
in the past have requested. Mostly, I believe, by people who've had
to capture live due to time code burps in their tapes and then want
to be able to go back and recapture.
And, a problem easy enough to correct, as
long as you're aware of it, by selecting manual reels (I think that's
right - I'm in the process of converting from 6.0 to 7.6 right now)
to allow for duplicate timecodes from the same reel.
Maybe they can add a big warning when you go
to digitize in live mode without manual reels selected that you may
be wiping out previously captured material?
Russ
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Painter
To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 2:51 PM
Subject: Re: Live Capture
Sylvain Labrosse wrote:
Live capture has been changed recently (7.5,
or was it 7.6?) to support recapture, so yes it has been changed.
If you can't recapture live material, who
bothered to change it?
This new feature messes things up, and fixes
nothing that I can tell.
Twice already I've lost scratch tracks by
doing pickup lines because of this "fix."
"Yes, Mr. Client. That half hour script you
just read... well, it's gone. That's just the way DS is."
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