You are wrong and it's MacroSystem (not Macrovision)

I don't want to start a format war but the comments made by Mr.Phillysis are inaccurate, out of date, and in the end just plain mean.

Name: phillyswiss
Date: Aug 22, 2003 at 1:19 am
Subject: Re: Casablanca

I have yet to see the "bug" actually fixed.

Maybe you should try and look again. I have a bug free Avio right here in front of me. It has been over a year since the bugs were fixed and the fixes were free.

I have yet to see any bug fix from Macrovision that didn't create more bugs.

Same as above.

If it is so great why are you using Vegas now?

Thats easy! Sony, Sonic Foundry, MacroSystem (not Macrovision), Matrox, Pinnacle, and a host of others make editing tools. Some tools work better than others for each job. Vegas does some Amazing things but some things are easier and faster with an Avio, Kron, Prestige or even the venerable Classic Cassie. Bottom line is that you use the tool that fits the job. Another thing to keep in mind is the user. Give BoBo the chimp the finest set of woodcarving tools made and the results are a big mess and an injured chimp. Give a master carver a basic beginner set of woodcarving tools and you will still get art. The tool doesn't make the talent, it just enables it. Additionally, John, in the post that started this thread, wanted ease of use and stability. MacroSystem (not Macrovision) products have that hands down!

Perhaps, you got tired of the spending a couple of hundred bucks for a few more fonts, another couple of hundred bucks for a few more effects, etc.

You know perfectly well that the initial cost (which is still more than an adequate PC with Vegas) is nothing more than a continual sinkhole. By the time you get a system that can approximate the capabilities of a low end PC and low end NLE you have easily doubled or even tripled your original cost and you still have a system 10 years behind the times which can't be readily upgraded.

I know perfectly well that an Avio DV comes with both analog composite and s-video AND digital inputs. To get a PC that will have both digital firewire and analog composite and s-video inputs will cost extra. Add this cost to editing software, an anti-virus program, a defrag utility that is faster than Microsoft's sluggish built-in program and things start to add up. Total it ALL up and the cost is pretty close. Start with nothing and add up all the equipment costs for the average person to get to the point of reliably editing video with analog and digital sources. Compare the cost to an Avio DV. Depends on the features that you want, but basic feature to feature it's close.
If you look under the hood of a MacroSystem (not Macrovision) product you will find many of the same chipsets that are found in Canopus, Pinnacle and Matrox. Hardly 10 year old technology is it? Now I know that I won't be able to send email, chat, do the bills and play solitaire on my Avio, but I will use it as one of my EDITING tools. I also know that my MacroSystem (not Macrovision) editor is stable, virus-proof and within minutes of taking it out of the box even second grade students can be editing and outputting great videos.
Bottom line is that the best tool for the job is what's called for. In this case it sounds like a MacroSystem (not Macrovision) product could be the ticket. But I know that it's not the ticket for every job.
A Hammer is better at driving nails than swatting flies off of one's forehead... but perhaps you already know that.

But then having worked for Macrovision I can understand why you are having a hard time adjusting to the 21st. century

Finally, Mr. Sillypis, you have to make it personal, Ouch!
Remember, it's MacroSystem (not Macrovision) that you seem to have a problem with.
To Quote Forrest Gump, "Stupid is as stupid does".
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