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Avid Xpress DV - 3.5.3

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Version 3.5.3:	(1.0)
Selected Version:	3.5.3
Release Date:	2002-10-25
License:	Update
Downloads (version 3.5.3):	2,831
Downloads (all versions):	7,635
Price:	$1,699

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Product Description:

Real-time architecture that delivers more than 100 customizable real-time effects, professional-level color correction with waveform and vectorscope analysis, and multiple simultaneous real-time streams - all in software. You can preview a title, apply a dissolve, perform color correction, and animate a picture-in-picture effect simultaneously - all without rendering. And only Avid Xpress DV v3.5 allows you to customize every parameter of every real-time effect and see it all right away. Avid gives you the creative freedom you want and the image quality you need to deliver professional-grade video on a desktop, laptop, or mountaintop - anywhere your imagination takes you.

What's new in this version:

Hour Glass, Beachball, Spinning Wheel and other isolated reports of crashing are resolved.
Several issues of audio and video drift have been fixed.
Desktop play delay sync is now fixed.
Importing Quicktime with an alpha channel on Mac is fixed.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.1

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.1.4 or higher

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Versiontracker clearly needs a "Pro" section - Version: 4.3.1, 8/25/2006 06:24AM PST

Ilgaz

AVID is a professional video editing environment which SURE will need kernel extensions or drivers (for win32/64) and there is nothing wrong to have 3rd party kernel extensions. Apple gives developers to add system extensions because of that.

The problem is with Versiontracker. They should have a separate professional edition suited to professional users or people will keep comparing some magic pro compression algorithm (Sheer Video) with Apple Pixlet or whine about how bad AVID is since it needs 2 processors minimum or install kernel extensions.

You really have a clue about how advanced and de facto standard working environment you comment about? Price should give a clue.

Recommending it for semi professionals who would have access to some online edit company to render the work.

Six Kernel Extensions = One Star - Version: 3.5.3, 10/27/2003 06:07AM PST

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Pen Dragon

The real problem here is Avid feels they have to write kernel extensions for their software.

Third party kernel extensions are likely to make your entire system unstable. They use resources, even when you are not using the extensions or the application.

Even Apple says that:

"Because KEXTs run in supervisor mode in the kernel's address space, they are also harder to write and debug than user-level modules, and must conform to strict guidelines. Further, kernel resources are wired (permanently resident in memory) and are thus more costly to use than resources in a user-space task of equivalent functionality.

In addition, although memory protection keeps applications from crashing the system, no such safeguards are in place inside the kernel. A badly behaved kernel extension in Mac OS X can actually cause more trouble than a badly behaved application or extension could in Mac OS 8 or 9."

http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/documentation/howto/html/kext_tutorials/about_kext.html

This software looks like a hair-do for the freebie app that came with Avid Cinema. That was OS8/9. Keep your system stable. Stay from third-party kernel extensions.

It isn't twice… - Version: 3.5.3, 10/26/2002 09:11AM PST

captainstewart

as much, do the math: Final Cut Pro is $999. Acid is $1699. That's 1.7 times as much. Then there's the student/educational pricing: Final cut is $299, Avid is $499. That's 1.6 times the price. Granted, the price is still higher, but its not 2x.