Re: Avid - "Fool me once..."

[David Roche] "Sincerely,
Former and probable future Avid user, DR"

i'm not Avid... but I'll try to answer some of your points... at least to my knowledge

CMX600, lucasfilm's EditDroid, quantel's Harry and... the EMC2 editor

all these came before Avid...and had NLE capabilities (you gotta love wiki...)
so Avid didn't invent NLE... they rather packaged it nicely and sold it better than other's did.

avid or apple and probably Adobe too can't really afford to give free phone tech support. if you think people are smart and won't abuse it, you are just wrong, and you probably never gave phone support to groups before. i can tell you from experience that even when its paid support it gets annoying, and the client becomes addicted very fast... and that was one TV channel.

oh... and the dongle went the way of the Mohicans about a year+ ago

had some more points, but no more time.. :)

good luck with your choices


hector

Hector Berrebi
prePost Consulting