If you missed the September meeting, here's a recap.  If you attended, share your feedback on the meeting and the product presented.

The speaker this month was Len Sitomer from PortalVideo Inc.  

PortalVideo™ is an internet-based video editing system that dramatically reduces the time and cost of creating interview-based rough cuts. Edit anytime and anywhere you find a broadband connection. Your work process is the same, only easier and faster than before. Choose the right transcript segments and place them in the right order. The PortalVideo system, with patent-pending VideoText® technology, links transcript text to video, and instantly publishes both edited video and script over the internet.

The audience, consisting manly of editors, found it to be an interesting product although they all seemed to have mixed emotions about it.  This tool allows the producers to do the grunt work of rough editing the early stages of a project.  It can then be exported to an Avid system for final editing.  Many editors feel that good about being spared the early work but as service providers they hate to lose this part of their business.