Is Edit* Dead?
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When told of the statements made by Discreet officials, Sherwood reacted with incredulity. "I can't understand Discreet's statement that 'there will be development beyond 6.5' for Edit when they have released the entire team of developers who created and maintained the code base for the past 6 years," Sherwood said. "It's a real shame, but, I know I'll be using 6.5, Jobnet 3.0 and Combustion 2.0 as the systems of choice for Sherwood Post Production, at least for the next year or so," he said.
But Discreet officials still say they don't know what is to become of Edit. "It's just like any other software application," Discreet's VP Phillip Miller told Digital Media Net. "You release a version, see how it does, and then decide where to go from there. That's what we're doing with Edit right now," Miller said. However, Miller did comment on the awkward place Edit occupies in the digital video editing market space right now, where the market appears to be shaped like an hourglass, with $80,000 editing systems on the high side and lower-end $4000 systems on the other. "Edit is between the high end and the low end. No doubt, it's a challenging area to be in. What Edit is delivering now is a lot more performance for the money than the competition. It should be more expensive, but it's now providing maximum value. But it's open to competition from many others." [an error occurred while processing this directive] Here's Charlie White's review and tutorial of Discreet Edit 6.
Charlie White has been writing about new media and digital video since it was the laughingstock of the television industry. A technology journalist and columnist for the past eight years, White is also an Emmy-winning producer, video editor and shot-calling PBS TV director with 27 years broadcast experience. Talk back -- Send Chazz a note at cwhite@digitalmedianet.com.Prev 1 2 3
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