“It means they can do things that would otherwise stall due to waiting for industry adoption.“ That was certainly the case for the Vegas Video team back when S

“It means they can do things that would otherwise stall due to waiting for industry adoption.“ That was certainly the case for the Vegas Video team back when Sony owned the group. That said, it enabled some head-scratching behaviors, like XDCAM and XDCAM EX having different schemas and formats despite both being XDCAM branded random-access media. If plenoptic computational videography ever becomes more popular, it will likely be on the back of a similar hardware/software integration. Existing NLE products feel a bit shoehorned for RAW post-photography/pre-assembly to grading/finishing workflows being pluggable.