I remeber buying a xpress meridien system for online editing.
I was very happy I got rid of it within a year without much lost oninvestment.
This was in the days Avid had a horrible policy on buying 'features' to make the system work.
The hardware (optional) was the meridien box used by mc, a (optional) digidesign i/o box to get 8 ch audio i/o. It could do about the same as a mc system but you needed to buy (big money)
software options; was it avr 75or 77?, 2d or 3d fx, sdi uncompressed or not, etc.
All kinds of simple editing task were blocked and you needed to work around them.
I'm talking about maybey 8 years ago. Avid tranformed a lot since then but you see some of this stupid behaviour back if you look at the difference between mc and symphony. Secondary Color correction by example.
Why is it still not possible to do a dpx export with mc.??? If avid is smart they integrate some symphony/ds features into mc and let it work on more third party hardware and try to get a bigger audience to like there tools.
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