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Posted by doc on 09/02/05 16:56
would love to hear more about your liquid edition experience and goods/bads
influences it presents to you.
we have over 90 hours of HDV 1080i 24p and are in the "trying to decide"
phase of software/equipment to edit and produce the movie.
doc
"TonyP" <arpierre@Hooptonline.net> wrote in message
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> Moving Vision wrote:
>
>> Difficult decision in these fast changing times. In my opinion Avid is a
>> legacy system now only continuing in the esteem of newbies because the
>> establishment are apparently vested in it. Many of us not so vested and
>> not in awe of the diminishing establishment regard Avid as not very user
>> friendly and increasingly pass. Even the one time notion that if you
>> were not an Avid editor you could never expect to work professionally has
>> been relegated to ancient myth. These days the myth of the leather sofa'd
>> Soho gin palace as being essential to high end post production is looking
>> increasingly ridiculous. The days of high end editing on affordable
>> systems are already with us, see Canopus Edius HD for example, OK at $50K
>> or $60K it may seem expensive to the amateur or wedding video producer
>> but it'll do anything any other $600K collection of boxes can do and
>> more. If that's a bit too rich go for the $10K-$12K (Full turnkey system)
>> Canopus Edius SP. It will mix and match any known media including HDV in
>> real time and with the new Miranda bridge even full uncompressed HD SDI
>> without compromise. Nothing right now, with the possible exception of the
>> low cost and less capable Pinnacle Liquid Addition, gets close to this,
>> though Apple, Avid et al do keep making promises!
>
> That's Pinnacle Liquid EDITION, not Addition! And now that Avid is trying
> to buy Pinnacle (although it is Pinnacle that makes more $$$ than Avid),
> who knows what direction Avid will go in. Edition is totally software
> based (unless you get their breakout box), so the faster the computer,
> blah blah blah.
> If you go to the forums on both sides (I am a Liquid Edition user), you
> will see each has it's own "camp", although the Avid crew is more "nose up
> in the air" than the bread and butter Pinnacle crowd.
> In the end, it is the person editing that makes or breaks the video.
>
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