Re: Dream Edit Suite for mid/high-end price?

I concur with the Nitris DX choice. After a few years of struggle,
we're finally developing our first projects with mainstream
commissioners and we need a new edit HD suite to look after us.
Been using FCP and PPro for years and both platforms have
cost me/the company too much time and money over the years with
their random crashing and other eccentricities, particularly Adobe.

Another reason for Avid is we'll be using their Turnkey setup
on XP Pro (which we'll upgrade to Service Pack 3 ourselves, I
presume) so we won't have to repurchase software and licenses
for OSX or whatever.

Other reasons: Apple's ProRes422 codec apparently isn't up to
its own hype, whereas Avid's DNxHD is. Windows/Premiere Pro
now supporting RED's 4K material does make me chuckle, though.

Saying that, we also need offline and motion graphics and I'll quite
happily allow CS3 to take care of it. Offline setup being Premiere,
After Effects and Photoshop (we've started editing video in Photo-
shop) running a Matrox or AJA card, for example.

Darren.

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