flame and lustre question

[Sven Seynaeve]

Hi,

I want to take postpro serious, but haven't been able to work on more systems then avid, fcp, premiere, afx, edius, combustion and some more....

What would be the benefit for featurefilms, commercials , corporate and musicvideos owning a flame and lustre system when shooting red in the first place????

From the specs , I can't get a clear idea what's the big difference in the future going the indie way (prem and fcp in combination with scratch) or owning such a system.

Let's say you don't have to care about the money it costs (because after all when leasing it doesn't cost that much more if it's really worth what it's doing for a certain time, but still don't want to throw away if it's not that great.


What are these serious really more capable of to get the final product really high end looking??? Is the grading in lustre so much better (trackers, options, ..)then scratch , and are the editing , titling , fx tools so much more worth then doing projects on a mac or pc????

I know it all depends on the artist, but being an audio guru, and finding myself quiet spoiled in this area lately (it seems everything that should be there , you can find in the software applications) , but in video there seems to be so much missing , effects are poor , plugins are not to clear about functionality (imho),
so has a flame system much more value on the fx side of things that you could create projects, you could never do on a mac or pc???

Or would software like eyeon fusion bring up the tricks in the final stage.

Furter, if discreet wouldn't support the r3d files in the near future, i would definetaly get that scratch license; in this case what could be a killer workflow???

Please, if you've got any experience could someone please chop in???

[Greg M]

The main advantage to a system like Flame, Lustre and Smoke is that they are a "system", they work as advertised and dont rely on the integration of multiple software and hardware packages. With support you are dealing with one vendor not six or seven and finally speed, these systems are significantly faster than the other solutions.

They are proven systems that work as advertised...you can accomplish the same thing with a Mac and half a dozen software packages which in total are far cheaper, but if you have a client in your sessions that may be less than ideal.

From my experience the old saying "build it and they will come" applies to the Discreet family...if you are talented and know how to make magic with their systems you wont have any problems keeping the systems busy.

[Sven Seynaeve]

OK,

I definately should have a in depth demo of these systems, that's for sure.