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Xpress Pro 5.6 available to download
So Avid quietly put up the new version of Xpress Pro on the download page.
Gonna try it out on a small project and see how it goes. -
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Does anybody know if AXP 5.6 fixes the group clip problem (limit of four clips in a group) that came with 5.5?
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Phillip Byrd
Brandenburg Productions, Inc.
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Nope. According to Marianna’s post on another forum (she works for Avid and ROCKS! for those of you who wonder who Marianna is) it’s being looked into–not necessarily going to come to fruition, but being looked into. As I scour the dark corners of the internet I’ll be sure to post if I find an update.
Mike.
PS. The Xpress 5.6 readme can be found here:
https://www.sfbaaug.org/posts/README_XpressPro.pdf
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Thanks Mike. I’m sure I’m not the only one looking forward to any intelligence into this latest Avid marketing strategy.
BTW- just today I received a mailing from Avid about upgrading to Media Composer Software. One of the comparisons in the brochure said that AXP only allows four clips in a group, while MC Software allows lots more.
Maybe this is no accident????
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Phillip Byrd
Brandenburg Productions, Inc.
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Honestly, the last I heard is that it was an accident to even allow Xpress to have more than 4 clips in a group, and after it was released it was simply allowed to stay. Avid’s mistake was the user’s gain. Now Avid had another “accident” (makes you wonder, doesn’t it?) that took it away. Everything I’ve heard is that it’s up to the higher powers to decide whether Xpress gets it back. Not comforting to hear, but maybe they’ll do right. It would be a real shame to lose it because I know lots of people will be rather irate to have features removed rather than added.
If Avid does officially remove it, I hope they aren’t thinking it will drive upgrades to Media Composer, because I could see how it would easily instead drive customers to FCP or a similar editor. Without being able to group more clips it makes offlining very difficult, which Xpress is currently incredible at. Well, Xpress 5.2 is. 🙂
Mike.
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I think that’s now a limited feature. When browsing the brochure Avid sent to sell me MCSoft, I saw they laid out the features by software, and AXP featured 4 cams, while MCSoft featured more (9?).
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FYI on this issue: BLKDOG made a post in the mac forums today and said that Avid was going to add the full grouping functionality back.
“Good news! Avid has decided to reverse its decision and put the grouping limit back the way it was. We should see this in version 5.6.1 due out in a couple of weeks.”
This was in the Mac forum. We’ll see what happens.
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