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<blockquote data-quote="Jeff Babcock" data-source="post: 59820" data-attributes="member: 46">Re: Uli Behringer of The Music Group Q&amp;AI&#039;ll quit with the SAC tangent after this post, but seriously, what camera crew do you know that will accept you giving them a laptop with SAC and expect them to do a mix.&nbsp; Most of them wouldn&#039;t want to/be able to do this if you gave them a Mixwiz, let alone a computer running software with what IMHO is a less than desirable 1987 UI.&nbsp; It&#039;s just not reality, unless you are talking about a camera crew of some local buddies that you&#039;ve trained.&nbsp; The video companies I regularly deal with would laugh at me if I tried that approach.I&#039;m not slamming SAC, it does have useful potential in some circumstances with a tech savvy trained operator.&nbsp; But I have often gotten the impression that some folks in the SAC community tend to think that because it works for them that it should work for everyone.&nbsp; It does not, and on a personal note, I have a pretty solid I.T. background and I have more than casually investigated and experimented with SAC, still to determine that it was not suitable for my typical usage requirements (festivals and other quick turnaround events).&nbsp; YMMV, but I find that though it has excellent &quot;raw capability&quot;, the &quot;raw&quot; aspect is still a significant barrier to entry.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeff Babcock, post: 59820, member: 46"] Re: Uli Behringer of The Music Group Q&A I'll quit with the SAC tangent after this post, but seriously, what camera crew do you know that will accept you giving them a laptop with SAC and expect them to do a mix. Most of them wouldn't want to/be able to do this if you gave them a Mixwiz, let alone a computer running software with what IMHO is a less than desirable 1987 UI. It's just not reality, unless you are talking about a camera crew of some local buddies that you've trained. The video companies I regularly deal with would laugh at me if I tried that approach. I'm not slamming SAC, it does have useful potential in some circumstances with a tech savvy trained operator. But I have often gotten the impression that some folks in the SAC community tend to think that because it works for them that it should work for everyone. It does not, and on a personal note, I have a pretty solid I.T. background and I have more than casually investigated and experimented with SAC, still to determine that it was not suitable for my typical usage requirements (festivals and other quick turnaround events). YMMV, but I find that though it has excellent "raw capability", the "raw" aspect is still a significant barrier to entry. [/QUOTE]

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