Bob Shell wrote: >I'm writing a book right now about digital video. We did an informal >survey of working video shooters/editors and it seems that among the >high-end users it's a shootout between FCP and Premiere, with far >more using FCP. This is surprising to me since Avid not only offers >theirs for both Windows and Mac (FCP is Mac only, Premiere is Windows >only), but Avid also has a free version with most of the features you >would need. It's available for both platforms. You can download the >free Avid video editor at: > >http://www.avid.com/freedv/
Wow. Thanks for that info! I looked at the Avid web site and found it very poorly organized. >There are also some good tutorials free on their site. > >To me this is damned smart marketing. The free version does most >things, but if you want to have all of the pro features and tech >support you have to upgrade to one of their two app packages. It does seem like smart marketing. But so does Adobe's policy of offering package deals to colleges and universities at "offer you can't refuse" prices. Especially now that Adobe has borged Macromedia. -- Mark Roberts Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com 412-687-2835 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
