I’ll tell you somthing about Discreet EDIT*… I have owned it since it was D Vision in 1996-7. NAB NON LINEAR EDITING SYSTEM OF THE YEAR… Has a Targa 2000 board that was 14k at that time… $42k for the system… (I was a sucker) and later on Autodesk proved it to me again… The company should be renamed Autodreck… it translates into “autocrap”
Discreet bought it and I kept with the upgrades… My final upgrade of edit*, paint/light/and the latest software along with a new intergraph computer w/ 900 pentium (dual) chips cost me about $8000.
GUESS WHAT? Five months later they dropped the whole damn line and refused to support it any longer.
They offered me as trade for FLAME at that time with a $5000 discount… Flame may have been $80k.
I still have the system with scads of SCSI drives striped. If the system drops 1 frame of audio, the whole damn thing crashed.
Couldn’t recover it. Even if I could and needed support, IT WAS NO LONGER THERE.
It was fine when it worked properly, but as time went on, it didn’t.
Want to buy the system?… If you are an NT whiz and a brain, it’s for you… (antique collector?)
EVERY BIT OF SOFTWARE had a DONGLE… they stuck out so far from the back of the box it was a problem…
The vendor probably knew I was trashing $$$ but he saw the sale and the $$$ in it, but not the future…
It’s about 9 years later and I am still pissed off…
Get sucked in and screwed out by AUTODESK… they never answered any letters and phone calls…
GREAT COMPANY!!!!
Anyone know what I can do with all this DISCREET LOGIC STUFF, besides use it for a doorstop?
By the way the “*” in edit* means, look below…
When it did work, it was great, but autodesk didn’t seem to change the well thought out utilities and gui…
Sorry I am hostile…
*rip off