RE: DS feature requests

[AGreenberg(at)chaines.astral.com]

Title: RE: DS feature requests

Well not to encourage staying behind in the times, but even if DS has no future, it can last a long time until other competitor`s products suit our needs. Maybe in a year or 2, there will something similar to the DS made by someone else. There is no need to go to symphony, I wouldn`t.

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De : owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] De la part de John McMullin
Envoyé : 18 janvier, 2006 10:47
À : DS(at)Softimage.COM
Objet : RE: DS feature requests

You'd think that Avid would want to have a properly conceived effects programme, rather than leave it to Autodesk and Apple.  I saw Symphony Nitris at a Demo recently and it was pretty underwhelming, just another Avid.  It was even dropping frames on the demo material.  I don't know why Avid corp. isn't interested.  Unfortunately the only real alternative for my company is Symphony (due to the MCO offline online route) so Avid will remain smug and happy, at least for the time being.  I feel a bit pissed off because I've spent a lot of the last two years learning DS, and our company was sold DS as the future system.

 

        -----Original Message-----
        From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM on behalf of Victor Wolansky
        Sent: Wed 1/18/2006 14:37
        To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
        Cc:
        Subject: RE: DS feature requests
       
       

        Yeah... I will address those features requests to your next box of choice...
        Probably you will have some feedback.
       
        Victor Wolansky
        DS VFX Artist
        e3post
        WEBsite
        Demo Reel
        815 Slaters Lane
        Alexandria. VA.
        443-797-3507
       
       
        -----Original Message-----
        From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of
        Tony Quinsee-Jover
        Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 9:09 AM
        To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
        Subject: RE: DS feature requests
       
        If Avid can't even be bothered to respond to our request for information
        about DS's future then I'd guess that it's a waste of effort asking for
        feature enhancements....
       
        It's now nearly 2 months since the request was made (24th November) and not
        a sniff of a reply to date.
       
        T.
       
       
        -----Original Message-----
        From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of
        chan-won
        Sent: 18 January 2006 13:20
        To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
        Subject: Re: DS feature requests
       
        I totally agree with your comments!
        Bravo.
       
        Chan-Won
       
       
        Le 18 janv. 06 à 14:02, John McMullin a écrit :
       
        >     
        >       >From: "John McMullin" <John(at)vet.co.uk>
        >       >Reply-To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
        >       >To: <ds(at)Softimage.COM>
        >       >Subject: DS feature requests
        >       >Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:27:10 -0000
        >       >
        >       >Sorry everyone, we're always banging on about this stuff, but the
        > worst
        >       >thing about the DS is the small things that it doesn't do.
        >       >
        >       >I'd like to:
        >       >
        >       >Be able to select clips in the timeline according to various
        > properties in
        >       >common, i.e. tapename, or even one word in the clip name, and then
        > copy an
        >       >effect to all of them.  I know that we've got source effects but
        > without
        >       >being able to later break down the association between the seperate
       
        > effects
        >       >it's almost useless.  I've just onlined a very cutty music video
        > which was
        >       >shot in 3 locations.  It meant stepping through, shot by shot, and
        > copying
        >       >my first colour correction preset onto each clip one by one.  Why
        > have I
        >       >got to go through this in DS when it's possible in FCP.
        >       >
        >       >Be able to remove effects from a group of selected clips,
        preferably
        > being
        >       >able to choose what kinds of effects you want to lose, e.g. DVEs or
       
        > colour
        >       >corrections.  FCP can do this as well.
        >       >
        >       >Be able to set separate clip colours to clips in the source bin
        that
        > ripple
        >       >through to the timeline.  This is really useful.  It makes
        > navigating a
        >       >long sequence so much quicker.
        >       >
        >       >Also, clips with some or all their media "not available" should be
        >       >highlighted in the timeline in some way.  Presently this seems to
        > happen
        >       >with audio but not video.  Also, annoyingly, in the bin, a clip
        > loses it's
        >       >red colour if it's got just 1 frame of media available to it. 
        > Maybe we can
        >       >have two different colours to indicate the different status. 
        > Because of
        >       >this, I've gone into an online with media not available messages
        > popping up
        >       >in front of the client.
        >       >
        >       >Auto colour correction.  I know it doesn't do a great job but it
        can
        > often
        >       >save you having to routinely setting black and white points on the
        > three
        >       >channels before you tweak it.  If Xpress Pro can do it then so
        > should DS.
        >       >
        >       >I'll let everyone else talk about the important things like the 3D
        >       >environment, expressions with graphics, particles etc.
        >       >
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