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Posted by doc on 09/29/05 03:24
Sorry to take so long to answer this post been so busy fighting off the
wolves. Here goes . . .
I have a trial version of Liquid Edition (sorry about the misspelling in my
earlier post :o) 6.0, trial version of Avid Express Pro, and trial version
of Canopus Edius Pro 3. LE's trial runs out soon and I've worked on it the
most since I'm going to do multi-cam and Canopus doesn't do it and I haven't
installed Avid yet (because I've been told that the learning curve is the
longest) I have . .
Pentium D (dual core) 3.0 GHz 1.0 Mb L2 cache each core 800 FSB
1.0 Gb 4200 DDR2 533 Hz
250 Gb 7.2K SATA 8 Mb cache (main drive)
300 Gb 7.2K SATA 8 Mb cache (media data drive)
160 Gb 7.2K IDE/USB 2.0 External for data transfer or (additional media
drive)
ATI Radeon X700 256 Mb graphics
Audigy 4, 5.1
MOTU 896HD 8 channel external A/D interface
I've the Mind Meld Training Video's and have learned thus far how to capture
and output without mod's or transitions although I'm not sure I'm outputing
properly since every DVD I've produced thus far has stop action like jumps
(like some frames or groups of frames are missing) and thus in an hour I
installed Canopus Edius Pro 3 and had captured and exported a DVD that
worked fine and could at least make some camera decisions :o)
So, for TV broadcast, commercials, weddings, and short/long movies which is
the best? How on earth do I evaluate these software and come to some
logical conclusion as to which to use?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Doc
"TonyP" <arpierre@hooptonline.net> wrote in message
news:tNgTe.29370$YC1.26604@fe08.lga...
> doc wrote:
>
>> loved ur post. we were thinking AVID, but you got us concerned that just
>> maybe we sound go some other route. maybe apple software isn't a bad
>> idea after all. i hear a lot of hype about final cut pro and premier pro
>> and just maybe that's the route we ought to go to produce our tv shows on
>> in january BECAUSE my experience with both liquid addition and studio 9
>> is DIASTER!
>
> First, its Liquid EDITION not ADDITION (do you really have it
> installed??). What version of Edition are you actually using? What
> manuals? Edition is NOT a program you pick up and use right away. The
> interface (even the "newer" one) still does not make editing and capturing
> easy right out of the box. You have to actually READ the manual. Unlike
> Studio, where I was using it without opening the manual.
> I don't know how much time you have spent with Liquid Edition, but have
> you ever been to their user forums
> (http://webboard.pinnaclesys.com/read_forums.asp?WebboardID=14&SectionID=85&lng=1)?
> Thousands of messages covering just about every topic. Have you been and
> used Pinnacle's online video tutorials
> http://vfwtech.com/liquid/Links/Tutorials_pinnacle.htm yet?
> From reading your posts, you were not specific in what problems you were
> having with either product. Have you tried the user forums for Studio?
> I am not saying that these programs are bug-free... none of the NLE's are.
> You will find complaints in every forum. But, it works for me (right now
> at least. Maybe tomorrow, who knows?).
> Maybe if you were more specific in the nature of your problems, you might
> be able to get some help.
>
> Just another question, you do have a second drive for capture, right? And
> you do have LE configured for using it, right?
>
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