[Tig] St. Diig

[lucas wilson]

Craig,

You are eloquent about how you put your feelings...

But you gave SCRATCH a fair shake two years ago. At that time, it didn't fit
your needs and I understood why and it made sense. Ok - cool. Maybe it still
doesn't support your workflow and your work. But your opinion is two years
old, and to assume that the product has stayed in the same place is kinda
silly.

Jeff Olm is doing client supervised work on a 30' screen for a major studio
stereoscopic feature. A-list feature directors are as demanding (and as
crazy) as commercial clients and don't accept lesser quality. The Studios go
through as rigorous a purchasing methodology as you do. We could not have
gotten these clients two years ago - when you looked at a system last.

...and we also have colorists doing client-supervised commercial work on
SCRATCH. Just not in Chicago.

Lucas
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ASSIMILATE, Inc.
LA, CA, USA

-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Leffel
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 12:33 AM
To: Tim Stipan
Cc: tig at tig.colorist.org
Subject: Re: [Tig] St. Diig

Quoting Tim Stipan <stipantim at yahoo.com>:

>> Big Iron Big Bucks! Yes you feel more comfortable buying hardware
dependent systems, but sytems like Scratch are GPU based and run on a fairly
cheap PC. So you can make a lot of money off of it and you dont have to be
married to expensive hardware. It does 2K at real time! The studios are all
buying it and Jeff is doing a 3D DI on it now. 

Tim, you know good and well that Scratch would not and does not support my
workflow. I have given the system a fair shake, and for what I do everyday,
it's not an option. The fact that studios are buying them means nothing to
the TV commercial Post world.