Re: Is this Avid worth selling?

[Mark Suszko] "can now afford a used one to indulge side projects or rent out."

You can get a box of Media Composer 4, which supports real-time stereoscopic 3D editing among other slick things, plus a 4TB raid, an external Blu-ray burner and a spindle of Blu-ray disks for $2999. (Videoguys are among our advertisers who can make you this deal, but there are others.) Run it on your laptop and desktop, even if they're on different OSes. Affordable, high-powered, contemporary Avids are plentiful.

And Casey, you can upgrade for $495. :-)



[Timothy J. Allen] "Have you considered donating it to a school? (or a museum?)"

re: the school, an exhortation to everyone considering donating to schools - a noble concept, but almost always a bad idea. If I ask you to make a list of the reasons why, if you're honest, you'll come up with a dozen reasons why your system is the wrong one for those students to use.

It can't hurt to ask...but I worked with a high school that didn't want to say no to ANY donations, but wound up throwing away all the donated computers and peripherals. Just too much trouble in the age of iMacs and DV cameras.

re: museum, I get what you're saying TJA, and I know Casey does too, but systems of this vintage are more common than you'd think. They WORK, which is worth a lot.

Hey, ask Thelma Schoonmaker. She still uses a Lightworks system. (For your trivia notebook: the last Lightworks product manager is now the product manager for Adobe Premiere.)

Obviously oversimplified for rhetorical purposes, but you get the idea. People are slow to let go of largely bulletproof systems.

Anyhoo Casey, you should definitely list the system for sale here at the Cow and on ebay. Spare parts are worth a lot, and working SCSI storage is worth its weight in gold for people who need it. I wouldn't plan on getting a lot for it, but I'd be surprised if you didn't get some interest from some corner of the globe.


Good luck!

Tim