namtr0, thanks for your input on Windows 7 install.
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Originally Posted by SClancy
Whats the big deal with this software, ?
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It's an NLE. It's from Avid. And it's free. Granted, it's dated software at this point in time, but it existed in the days before you could buy an NLE or near-NLE for under $500. Software like
Adobe Premiere Elements,
Sony Vegas Movie Studio and Final Cut Express did not yet exist. This was a dumbed-down version of the full Avid software. And to this day, it's still quite decent.
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One cannot "GRAB" individual frames from a point in the clip, Edit them with a paint program and put them back in I wouldn't even call it an editor program, it's just another splicer and dicer. Editing?
Fails miserably.
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It also can't edit RAW photos from my DSLR, and it lacks spellchecking -- but that's because it wasn't intended for that kind of editing. And it's more than a simple splicer. Even most past versions of
Adobe Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro didn't have integrated abilities to export a still frame to an image editor, allowed for editing, and replace seamlessly.
I don't often use that function of an editor, so I can't even say for certain if Premiere CS3-CS5 does this. (Most videos I work on are a total mess -- not just flawed by a few frames that need repair.) Although I would bet it does, given how Adobe has integrated more and more of their apps of time. Encore and Photoshop communicate pretty well, so I'm thinking Premiere and Photoshop have a similar relationship.
It's hard to judge software for something it wasn't made to do. It's sort of like beating a screw with a hammer, and then complaining that the hammer does a lousy job at it. That's simply a case of using the wrong tool, and not a flaw of the tool itself.
If nothing else, it's a good piece of archived digital-era video history.
