[Tig] color

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 2 May 2007, Dick Hobbs wrote:
>
> What products like Final Cut Studio do is enable very large numbers
> of people to try something out. Most will produce something truly
> awful, but it could be that someone with a latent talent for colour
> discovers it by playing with Color. Which would be a good thing.

Perhaps products like this are the "beginning of the end" for the 
industry as it is known today.  Products like Final Cut Studio allow 
people working in 2nd and 3rd world countries to compete with 
colorists using more specialized equipment in 1st world countries.  If 
it takes 2 or 3 times longer, that is no big deal since the income 
level is at least 5 times less.  It is not a problem to find workers 
to work 24 hours per day.

We already saw this happen to the garment industry, manufacturing, 
service call centers, and (most recently) software/hardware 
development engineering.

Jobs can be done in the Czech Republic, China, or India.

Should those in the industry be worried?

Bob
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