I don't believe DS is doomed because of being attached to the windows platform. In Mexico, when it started being a Softimage product, several were sold. I bought one. It was a better software than Inferno IMHO, and a lot of bucks below. To have an Inferno it not only meant the silicon mainframe as it was kind of a NASA computer to launch the Apollo XIII. The whole suite configuration to have an Inferno suite was around $1,000,000. While mounting a DS suite was around $150,000.
If Avid had treated the DS with the respect it deserved instead of something coming out from a stock exchange between Avid and Microsoft, the outcome would be quite a different story. I am still using the DS for on-line and I still love it above now AD pirotechnics. Now that Avid move it away from being a turnkey system which would only work with Avid hardware and it's selling for 10 grand compared to a Smoke solution of $120,000 for the real thing, let's see what happens. Comping work is now done 95% on side platforms like Nuke, Fusion, After Effects, etc. Than in the old mighty Inferno, Flame, etc. I believe that now the DS solution has more life to go than AD pyrotechnics. As it integrates better from the editing to finishing pipeline and delivery pipeline. Cheers. 2013/8/6 Luc-Eric Rousseau <[email protected]> > doomed from the start by its deep attachment to the Windows platform. > > On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 4:51 AM, Fabrice Altman <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I think Luc-Eric did ‘a bit of work’ on that as well. > > > http://provideocoalition.com/ssimmons/story/it-looks-like-avid-is-finally-going-lay-ds-to-rest > > --
