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Oct 16, 2002, 11:59 AM
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Re: Pro & Con & Qs on 2.0 Smart Edit
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In your rush to "go negative" you ought to get your facts straight.
Banned Bob said-
: PRO:
: 1. Restores fade in/out on camera tracks (an original feature lost in OS1.4)
: 2. Allows 120 GB drives in Kron (undocumented - need confirmation)
: CON:
: 1. Revives old "New Scene" bug from OS1.0 so you can no longer use Black, Color Bars, Countdown, and Patterns in a DVD project from MPEG2.
Only a person like you would want to use Kron MPEG for DVD burning since DV mode DVD prep is 6 times faster than MPEG.
: 2. Avio and AvioDVPro it will not come with Audio Timeline display feature.
The new "timeline" display on the audio mix (proportional to time) is active on both our standard Avios and Avio Pros, same as the Kron and Prestige. Doesn't have much functionality now but it is on all models. (I'm curious where this may go in the future.)
The Avio, without Pro, doesn't have audio scrub waveform but that's as it allways was.
: 3. Delete button removed from recording screen (now requires changing screens to delete bad takes)
Don't record bad scenes. 8-) Since one does most deleteing from the main editing screen we haven't find this any loss at all. We don't like the fact that the copy button has been moved to the special screen.
: 4. Split button removed from recording screen (now requires changing screens to auto-split DV footage)
What's the deal? The _auto_ split button was on the record screen but we did all or spitting, auto or manual, from the main edit screen anyway.
: 5. Many other advertised features don't apply to any Avios and standard Krons.
Such as? Our new Prestige and older Krons are now running the same v2 software and have identical capabilities except for the hardware differences. Our Avios running the new software are only missing the features they always didn't have unless they had DV or are running pro s/w. They seemed to have everything else.
: NEUTRAL:
: 1. Installation wipes out existing projects.
Only if you do a full installation. The new software didn't reuquire a project-loosing installation over our 1.8 we were running.
: 2. Scene creation is faster (about 60% of scene length on Kron, unknown on Avio), but not instantaneous as with Cassie and other NLEs.
But its a lot faster than before.
: UNKNOWN:
: 1. Does installation prevent future editing on older drives with previous OS installed, like the 1.2=>1.4 upgrade did?
It didn't on our machines. I checked using v1.8.
: 2. Does creation of longer scenes still lock up?
Hasn't yet.
: 3. Does batch rendering still "forget" to render some of the transitions on the Kron?
Not yet. Maybe yours has Allzhimers. 8-)
: 4. Can MPEG2 projects be output via firewire?
Yes.
: 5. Does DV input still sputter and lose sync during input?
We never had a loss of sych even with v1.8. The audio monitored from the system was out of sync with the source audio but the recorded clips had perfect audio. All of our dv recordings with the new software have been fine.
THINGS OUR PEOPLE REALLY LIKE:
Hard drives can be named.
Larger (four times) selected clip bin icons. And we can use one button click to jump to beginning or end of clip in the bin.
Video clips can be added or removed from storyboard without knocing audio clips off.
Music tracks can be locked or unlocked when adding video clips.
Autosplit now works for video clips recorded Firewire out to dv tape and then back in.
We can now add selectable color fades to clips.
We can now preview our titles from the text entry screen.
Several new additions to text such as variable outline widths and extruded letters.
Anti-alias seems better.
On our Krons and Prestige we can rip audio tracks from cds much faster than before.
We can record audio in while playing back the video storyboard.
We can use the finish screen range function to control what goes to a dvd.
We can copy unprotected dvds.
We now have audio scrub from the scene range screen.
We keep finding new stuff every day.
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