Oakmozart
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Couldn’t have said it better myself. BS Nitris. I love it!! LOL!
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Grinner won’t be grinning about the price…that I’m pretty sure of.
Symphony Nitris is a cool product, but it isn’t a revolutionary product. While Avid added HD support via Nitris, SpectraMatte keying and 10-bit color-correction, the rest of it is nothing more than Symphony 5.5 (Meridien). You’d think for a remarkable new product like this that Avid would have filled it full of new goodies, but they didn’t. I figured that they’d add new FX capabilities to it (DS trickle-downs), and new enhancements to the color-correction toolset, but they didn’t. Symphony Nitris is what a lot of the Meridien Symphony users were asking for and Avid gave it to them. Good for Avid. Now I just wish they’d give us lower-end users what we want: an improved Mojo with 10-bit hardware, XLR and SDI connectors, plus add secondary color-correction and full Timewarp/FluidMotion to XPro HD. Will it ever happen? Probably not: they’ve got their precious, obsolete Media Composer Adrenaline to protect.
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Correction: Symphony Nitris does have multicam, I just missed it in the features of the PDF brochure. You’d think that they’d tout it as a major feature, but it appears as though they didn’t.
I actually like Avid 3D and use it regularly. It’s NOT designed to be a 3D animation program like Softimage, 3DS Max, Maya or Lightwave, but rather as a program that allows editor’s to include 3D objects in their video, without having to endure the ferocious learning curve of a true 3D animation program. It does what it was designed to do very well. I was just hoping for more advancement and new features in the software, not just the ability to work in HD.
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Upgrade to Xpress Pro. Get Mojo. Do titles in 1:1. This will cost you over $2000 and will require that you upgrade your computer, or at the very least update WinXP to Service Pack 2.
Try deleting your user settings and recreating new ones. Cheapest and easiest.
Try uninstalling/reinstalling your XDV 3.5/BCC software. Still cheap, but more work.
Hope someone else offers another suggestion besides mine, in case mine don’t fix the problem. 🙂
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Are you on Xpress Pro HD 5, Adrenaline or above? If you are, why not just use Marquee? It’s included, so it’s “free.” Some people have issues with it, but I use it daily for 90% of all my titling. It’s a great tool that goes way above and beyond Pinnacle’s TitleDeko, or other 3rd-party titlers, with the exception of Titlemotion Pro, or Boris Graffiti. Numerous people complain about long render times, but that’s due to problems with their systems and not so much Marquee. I’ve never had the kind of problems with Marquee that other users have complained about.
TitleMotion Pro, is a pretty impressive titler. I’ve only used it once before on another project and it seems like a decent product. I don’t recall if it had glows and blurs in it, but other than that it seemed to work fine. The titles looked decent, but I remember it being a little bit unstable (error and closing, causing me to lose my title…I’ve never had this problem with Marquee). The only problem with TitleMotion is that if you just buy TitleMotion itself, it doesn’t do 3D titles. In order for you to get that, you must buy the TitleMotion Pro add-on, which ends up costing you around $800. Do you want to spend that kind of money on a titler when you have Marquee included, or can get it for $50?
Graffiti’s pretty sweet too, once you learn the interface. But I’m sure you’ve already been playing with it, since it’s been bundled with XDV/XPro for ages.
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Oliver-
As a longtime reader of most of the major industry rags, I’ve read most all of your reviews and articles (mainly in Videography). In that time I’ve grown to realize that you truly DO know what you’re talking about when it comes to the industry/editing and I’ve learned a great deal from you. I respect your opinions greatly and value the opportunity to be able to openly chat with you here on these forums. Kudos to you for being so available and thank you!
I do not understand, however, how you view Liquid Edition as a more “consumer” app than XPro HD, when Edition offers many of the features of XPro, and even more…several of which are only available in Adrenaline, Symphony, or DS. With a product that offers most all XPro’s offerings, plus things like a secondary color-correction toolset (absent in XPro and Adrenaline), full Timewarp-esque motion effects (Adrenaline and up), background rendering (missing in all Avid products, except DS Nitris + RP option), timeline-based transfer modes (asininely missing from Avid products minus DS), etc. I fail to see how 2 competing products could occupy the same spot in Avid’s product-line and still be profitable. Maybe if they stripped Edition down to its bare bones and gave XPro the stripped Edition options it could be. But if they did that, then what’s the point of having Pinnacle Studio? Pinnacle has said outright that Studio is one of their biggest income generators at this time and is a large part of what’s keeping them profitable. To me, Avid should pull an “Elastic Reality” by stripping all of Edition’s features that are missing in XPro and implement them in future versions of XPro. I’m curious as to what your thoughts are on this matter. And just to clarify, this is NOT an “Avid vs. Edition” thread, since I’m an Avid guy and likely always will be until I die. At the same time, I respect Edition and will use whatever NLE is available to me to complete my projects.
Would like to know what you think about this.
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Indeed. In fact, Pinnacle will be strutting its stuff and showing off its newest products at NAB, plus CONTINUING development on its existing products! Once (and IF) the merger papers are signed and Pinnacle becomes Avid’s property, then all bets are off.
Betcha an ice-cream Sundae that Liquid Edition gets killed-off, with its best features that are missing in XPro being added to XPro!
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On board Promise SATA controllers DO NOT work. Period. I’ve heard, though have not personally confirmed that Promise SATA-controller add-on PCI cards DO NOT work as well.
Either find another motherboard, or follow Jon’s advice.