I guess it lasted a lot longer than alias advance...
It seems like only yesterday that avid was refusing to make an HD symphony as DS was their finishing product.
Personally as an effects guy I really wanted to like DS. I already used Media composer, I used various node based compositors and I used flame, on
The surface it seemed like an idea blend of all three. But ultimately the grafted on media composer interface didn't really gel as well as it should - you could color correct with the built in avid tools, in an avx or in a node tree and it was never really quick to see what has been done when you took over someone else's job.
But overall it was its strengths that were its weaknesses. None destructive paint is great for dust busting when you get a new grade from telecine, less so when it brings the system to its knees a few hundred brush strokes in. It's keyer was good at introduction but didn't keep pace with flames master keyer or key light etc. once the decision to make hd symphony was made it got very little love and stagnated. But for me as a irix the red hat user the windows virus was its downfall. Damn that interface was ugly.
But as a system it was revolutionary, nodes in a timeline is the exciting new feature of smoke 2013 and the avid avx link brings a more powerful node based compositing system to all avid users in much the same way. And in the end that's pretty much all an edit system can hope to leave behind. To introduce new ideas that spread and become commonplace. In that regard ds was a success.
Mike
On 6 Aug, 2013, at 6:27 AM, "Dom Q. Silverio" <domqsilverio@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not like this is a surprise but....
> http://community.avid.com/forums/p/121484/699539.aspx#699539
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> We bought 2 of them around version 7 I think. We had 1 request for it.
> Waste of good technology.
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