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NASA "First Robots" Competition Promo

posted by ejose on Thu, May 15 2008

Avid Community member "Gelf" was asked to create a promo for NASA TV, promoting the First Robots competition. Here's the promo, created in one day with the help of Jump Backs, some 3D animation and a Media Composer . (read more)

Death of the Little Weight Lifter Guy (And Other Media Composer Interface Changes)

posted by ejose on Thu, May 15 2008

When Media Composer 3.0 ships next month, you'll notice a few changes to the interface. They're minor changes, designed to make it easier for new Avid editors to quickly identify the intended purpose of particular icons. For veteran Avid editors, there... (read more)

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Re: New Avid marketing about new products

[quote user="amitzinman"]Except for some minor icon change is it any different?[/quote] MC's GUI has pretty much matured. Any changes are always have been minor with few recent exceptions (AVX 2 keyframing and CC). Looking at the list of improvements (codec, project type, performance, etc) I don't think it require any major GUI modifications...

Posted to General Discussion & Off-Topic (Forum) by Dom Q. Silverio on Sat, May 17 2008

Re: New Avid marketing about new products

I'm still wondering where are the screenshots. I like the head with the strange eyes, but what's with the fuzzy long shots? Give us some GUI, a full featured list, something. I mean I'm sure people had already seen it in the Avid conventions. Except for some minor icon change is it any different? Since it's barely a month away from release...

Posted to General Discussion & Off-Topic (Forum) by amitzinman on Sat, May 17 2008

xw8400 specs for MC

Ok, so I'm scraping up some cash to get upgraded to MC from Xpress since its EOL. My Dell 650 is no longer going to cut it so I'm looking at an xw8400. I'm looking at buying an xw8400 (1x) Quad Core 2.6Ghz, with 4GB and FX1500. It looks good to me and the price is close to what I can spend, but the Avid list shows that I should have Dual...

Posted to Avid Media Composer - PC (Forum) by Blackburst1 on Sat, May 17 2008

Re: Error After Error

since you are runninh avid on a pc I would go for the latest version of the installable windows version. AvidSDM is a service you don't need. Disable it. Also follow the instructions in the readme tegarding disabling simple filesharing etc.

Posted to Avid Xpress Pro - PC (Forum) by jknikman on Sat, May 17 2008

DVD authouring

Greetings... I am working on an 1080:24P project, which will be outputed to an HDcam tape digital cut and DVD. I know that this has been discussed many times and it just grow me up to be more confused what's the best solution. I want to keep the quality intact; no degradation in quality whatsoever. I'd like to do it the best way ever. I know...

Posted to Avid Media Composer - PC (Forum) by Vetalogy on Sat, May 17 2008

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