Posted by phil-news-nospam on 09/03/05 20:27

On Sat, 3 Sep 2005 10:40:39 -0400 Mike Kujbida <kujfamNoSpam@xplornet.com> wrote:

| mmaker@my-deja.com wrote:
|> doc wrote:
|>> would love to hear more about your liquid edition experience and
|>> goods/bads influences it presents to you.
|>
|> My HDV experience with Edition is that the interface sucks, it crashes
|> a lot, likes to trash my hard drives, and generally just isn't very
|> nice to work with. Once Avid release HDV support I'll be back there in
|> an instant.
|>
|> Also, frankly, I expect to see Avid let Edition die over the next year
|> or two.
|>
|>> 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.
|>
|> Avid isn't an option right now unless you transcode to DNxHD after
|> capture... what I've heard of their Beta release of HDV support sounds
|> good, but it's months late and won't be out for at least a few more
|> weeks.
|>
|> On the PC, Edition is one of the few options for native HDV editing
|> right now, on Macs I think Final Cut has native HDV editing. If you're
|> willing to put up with transcoding, there are a few more options.
|>
|> Mark
|
|
| From comments on other groups that I've read, the Canopus Edius appears to
| be one of the few solutions on the PC side that does what it claims.
|
| Mike

I was looking at getting Main Actor, especially because it is one of the
few that works on Linux (which I use instead of Windows). Anyone have
any experiences with it, even if with the Windows version?

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