What software you consider so bad it made you happy when you left your job?

Quazatron@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 367 points –

I've worked with some pretty rotten software, but management software is easily the most user unfriendly, so my vote goes to HPSM.

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I’m a camera operator. I work with different cameras on every movie set. The Sony cameras are known to have the worst menu system of all. It’s extremely dense, organized in a manner that makes no sense when on set (the frequently used options are buried in sub menus) and the navigation is painful with a crappy clicky roller. Even the sales rep for Sony openly apologized for the menus. This is unacceptable for a $52,000.00 camera. On the opposite side, there’s ARRI Alexa which has the simplest menu of all. Just a few pages of organized items with simple names. And a lot of common options accessible on the main screen.

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here’s the Sony Venice menu simulator

And here is the ARRI Alexa menu simulator.

The differences may not be apparent on the simulator but they become critical when on set with a time constraint.

Same but on the live side. Interestingly Sony has it down pat for their live cameras. The global standard for camera control is a Sony controller almost everyone supports them. Grass valley on the other hand hot garbage software, really good hardware.

I only do sfx occasionally, so I'm never near a camera. But those menu simulators are actually really neat. I didn't know vendors had that.

It’s really useful. Not everyone can have easy access to a $50K camera to play around before their first job with it.

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