Comments on: Autodesk Files Lawsuit Against Assimilate

By: mark horton

mark horton — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:18:42 +0000

This is the current state of play with Quantel

http://www.quantel.com/repository/files/whitepapers_red_qworkflownovember_14thfinal.pdf

By: Action-Man

Action-Man — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:57:59 +0000

What’s funny is that 4 years ago nobody believed in the RED revolution…but Assimilate did. And this creates a nice relationship beetween 2 small companies.
Now that the RED is up and running, everybody wants to be part of it without having taken any risk and believe that buying a SDK is enough
So let’s talk about today and stop bitching Assimilate. These guys are a f…g small company and did an amazing job. Scratch is not perfect but has been improving quiet fast and actually plays r3d files directly, which is not the case with the SDK. Ask Quantel or Autodesk or Digital Vision to show you the native raw image (I did): They can’t.

By: still_itching

still_itching — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:38:12 +0000

Assimilate imo is a company that spends far too much time dissing competitors products and grossly overpriced for what they offer. It would not surprise me in the least if any or all of the allegations are proven true. It bothers me greatly when they continuously make the patently false statement that they have privileged access to redcode. At ibc they pushed a whole bunch of hogwash about being the “only” company to have a “special” relationship with red. Perhaps till now it has been the case but the sdk renders that not true anymore. Lustre is a very very fine program and will open r3d files natively in the near future. As far as redcine goes it is horrendously crippled by assimilate and only a stop-gap solution till other solutions catch up to the always envelope-pushing guys at red.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:04:28 +0000

Re: #13
You could go even furthur back than that. I’m pretty sure I remember Discreet getting sued by Quantel (circa 1990 or so) because Flame looked so much like a Henry and believe it or not was much less expensive!
As far as calling Scratch a “toy”? I’d take that to mean like some people might call a Ferrari a toy, or a 4WD off-roader a toy. Scratch can haul a lot of freight mighty fast. I guess it depends on who’s doing the drivin’…

By: fxguide quick takes » Assimilate Responds to Autodesk Lawsuit

fxguide quick takes » Assimilate Responds to Autodesk Lawsuit — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:33:38 +0000

[...] we first learned of Autodesk filing a lawsuit against Assimilate in early October, we asked both companies to comment on the litigation. ASSIMILATE CEO Jeff Edson [...]

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:47:11 +0000

slightly off topic, but has the makes a circular motion for playback feature been integrated into any of Autodesks other systems -IE Smoke/Flame…?

By: Miltos

Miltos — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:43:53 +0000

What do you think will be the ramifications of Autodesk wining the case? There has to be an important reason (other than the UI copyrights) for them to do such a move so maybe interesting things will happen even if they loose. Either outcome will leave a mark i think…

By: mike

mike — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:46:54 +0000

Did you guys even read the complaint? It really does not matter how much they paid for the code the fact is they own it and the IP. The owners are obviously hiding something and if it looks similar on the outside you gotta believe it similar on the inside.

By: Lucas

Lucas — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:57:32 +0000

Hey Tom… let’s take this offlist. I do like spirited discussion. : )
lucas (at) assimilateinc (dot) com.

By: ok, true but...

ok, true but... — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:06:26 +0000

“And, IMHO, scratch is a toy, maybe even worse than color, while lustre is real app.”

What a toy by way!

I much rather be a kid that lives in a world where you can work in full res in real time all the time then live in Autodesk fantasy realm where every pseudo real time feature comes bundled with a process or proxy button.

And don’t forget that 5D has a pretty good share of it’s work in Lustre, so your argument is pretty much empty.