[Doug Mann]

Thank you Steve – I had not considered Lightworks for a while. On a quick look, it seems that Lightworks is even less adept with audio than FCP or Premiere 5 (haven’t tried current Premiere) so it’s not ready for us.

Again, I don’t see any better course of action than to suffer with FCP7 until a clearly superior solution for our studios is presented. Every system has strengths and weaknesses, but we need a compelling set of benefits to justify our once-per-decade facility wide investment.

I’ll keep a wide open mind about all of them, but it could be that the “cloud” people will actually deliver something we can use. Doubt it, but watching closely.

[Doug Mann]

The hardware requirements are an extraordinary disappointment. Adobe has chosen to build a brand new editing paradigm based on Windows server. This cannot be forgiven. They should have designed it around a Unix core, but instead threw us straight back into Microsoft’s awaiting stranglehold and viruses.

Oh well, I guess it’s back to hanging on to FCP 7 until a proper non-Apple replacement comes along. Are you listening Avid/Sony? *cough*(unix)*cough* .