Comments on: You Tube demos of 2 new Avid effects http://www.scottsimmons.tv/blog/2008/05/19/you-tube-demos-of-2-new-avid-effects/ A few words about non-linear editing, filmmaking and more ... Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:37:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Andy http://www.scottsimmons.tv/blog/2008/05/19/you-tube-demos-of-2-new-avid-effects/comment-page-1/#comment-7600 Andy Mon, 19 May 2008 14:39:08 +0000 http://www.scottsimmons.tv/blog/?p=1064#comment-7600 The AVX timecode filter is definitely well thought out, although not especially groundbreaking ... but then I guess there's not a lot of ground left to break in the realm of BITC :-) For me, a realtime overlay a la Edius would have been a more preferable approach (whereby the typical BITC display available in the NLE's viewer display can also be displayed as a live overlay to the video output) Got to love the warm fuzzy feeling AVID are starting to give off though ... its been a while. Great to see them back. I just hope their competitors are sitting up and taking notice ... and are willing to compete. The AVX timecode filter is definitely well thought out, although not especially groundbreaking … but then I guess there’s not a lot of ground left to break in the realm of BITC :-)
For me, a realtime overlay a la Edius would have been a more preferable approach (whereby the typical BITC display available in the NLE’s viewer display can also be displayed as a live overlay to the video output)
Got to love the warm fuzzy feeling AVID are starting to give off though … its been a while. Great to see them back. I just hope their competitors are sitting up and taking notice … and are willing to compete.

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