Re: Smoke is changing- into Final Cut Extreme

[Tim Wilson] "Respectfully, re comments here and elsewhere about what Autodesk did 10 years ago, that's irrelevant, SEVERAL lifetimes ago."

Respectfully, not to me. It will forever be one of my life's small pleasures to constantly remind anyone, anywhere and anytime, what a distasteful experience it was to deal with Autodesk / Discreet. If you say I "can't" post these statements on the Cow, I respect that and will stop. If your saying that it's silly ... well I don't mind being a fool; if I can cost that company even 1 sale, then I will be a happy man indeed.

As for comparisons with Avid, Adobe, etc. I wasn't involved in those situations. But if you weren't in the room at NAB several years ago with both the Discreet management and a group of *edit users, and weren't looked straight in the eye as they flat out lied to each and every one of us, and weren't part of the phone calls when they killed the product instead of selling it to either Pinacle or the *edit users group that was trying to buy the rights, then I don't think you know enough to make that comparison.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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"Deciding the spine is the process of editing" F. Bieberkopf