I remember when DVD Studio Pro came out, and the industry was supposed to go through a paradigm shift. I took a call at the DVD shop I worked at, and provided the requested quote to the person on the phone. They laughed out loud at the price and said that DVDSP was going to put my company out of business within a year. Multiple years later and several awards later, the company was still rocking and never once used DVDSP.
What we did do though is specialize in taking over jobs from people that could not complete a job in DVDSP and would come to us to save them. More than once, it would be from someone that called for a quote, didn't like the price, went some where else, and then came crawling back. The original quote was no longer valid as it was now considered a rush job.
It was a great tool for wedding videos /s
Any abstraction layer authoring tool removed half of the working space to hold the abstraction. This meant that projects that needed it were just impossible to do, and a lot of the people that only ever used DVSP didn't really know there were limitations until they ran head first into them.
What we did do though is specialize in taking over jobs from people that could not complete a job in DVDSP and would come to us to save them. More than once, it would be from someone that called for a quote, didn't like the price, went some where else, and then came crawling back. The original quote was no longer valid as it was now considered a rush job.
It was a great tool for wedding videos /s
Any abstraction layer authoring tool removed half of the working space to hold the abstraction. This meant that projects that needed it were just impossible to do, and a lot of the people that only ever used DVSP didn't really know there were limitations until they ran head first into them.