{"id":402,"date":"2007-06-26T09:58:19","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T14:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/?p=402"},"modified":"2007-06-26T09:59:42","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T14:59:42","slug":"avid-symphony-nitris-hope-you-like-progress-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/archives\/402","title":{"rendered":"Avid Symphony Nitris &#8211; hope you like progress bars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one thing putting up with Avid because of their kludgy made-it-up-as-they-went interface.  I&#8217;ll grant that video editors are not particularly technical people, so the cost of modernizing the UI wouldn&#8217;t be worth the retraining costs.<\/p>\n<p>But if we pay 90,000$ for the best Avid editing station, which includes 4,000$ for a quad-core Xeon workstation, it should bloody well use more than one processor at once when rendering effects:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/images\/avid_one_core.PNG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/images\/avid_one_core-s.PNG\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If your code is so old and krufty that you can&#8217;t support multiple processors for something as simple as effects or video encoding, it&#8217;s <strong>time for a rewrite<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one thing putting up with Avid because of their kludgy made-it-up-as-they-went interface. I&#8217;ll grant that video editors are not particularly technical people, so the cost of modernizing the UI wouldn&#8217;t be worth the retraining costs. But if we pay 90,000$ for the best Avid editing station, which includes 4,000$ for a quad-core Xeon workstation, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/archives\/402\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Avid Symphony Nitris &#8211; hope you like progress bars&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,26,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}