Combustion/Edit* nle instead of smoke 2013

What if autodesk instead of downgrading smoke would have revived Combustion with the Edit* editing tools.

Combustion 3 already had some video editing tools and they have edits* code somewhere.

I guess it would have been a better choice. They could have added smokes capabilities to the combustion/edit* Besides it would work om windows and macs with bootcamp.

I guess I will just dream on.

Ric

I keep hearing of this magical application named Edit* - what was the story with it?

Price? Platform? Hardware, etc.? And what was so awesome about it? Have any screenshots to share?

David Jahns
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Joint Editorial
Portland, OR

Thanks, Juan - that's a good read.

I didn't know much of the Discreet world in those day, but I remember back when Avid was pulling out of the Mac market, and the FW-DV-FCP revolution begun - good times... A few years later, they had Avid on the ropes, and then.... X.

That's what kills me about FCP-X. When you look at what Apple had in their toolkit in 2007 - FCP, Color, Shake, Motion, Soundtrack, Cinema Tools, Final Cut Server, 3rd party hardware - etc... Seemed like they just needed some interface gurus to tie everything together a little better, fix some core issues, go 64-bit, and they could have owned the pro video market for a generation.

Interesting that demise of the app that killed edit* is giving Autodesk an opening for Smoke to be the Super-App that FCP could have been...

David Jahns
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Joint Editorial
Portland, OR