OT: Avid Xpress HD 5 first impression

p@mast3rs wrote on 1/9/2005, 1:21 PM

I had the chance to catch the newest offering from Avid with their Xpress Pro HD and I must say I am quite impressed. From the multicam to working with HD files natively and pretty smoothly, I must say Vegas has a major competitor quality wise. Vegas still wins on the price but man, Xpress HD is nice. HDV support is coming soon and I believe he said its being provided free of charge, same as Premiere Pro users. Hopefully Sony can work a deal like that for us Vegas users.

http://www.avid.com/products/xpressprohd/

for those that want to know what the new version offers.

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scdragracing wrote on 1/11/2005, 3:39 PM

i would guess that the raid array's are needed only for full-on hd video... the hdv bitrate is the same as dv, so faster drive speed won't help... what's needed is a non-hardware-based way to decode the native hdv mpeg2 files during playback.

fasinating stuff!

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 1/11/2005, 3:44 PM

I'm certainly enjoying this thread, Great post Patrick

Dave

Coursedesign wrote on 1/11/2005, 4:02 PM

Avid indicates that DNxHD is a way to get better compositing, effects and titles by avoiding the crappy camera tape formats (incl. even 3:1:1 HDCAM).

It really sounds like a transcode from a HD camera recording format to a higher spec format inside the Express HD NLE. Or am I misunderstanding this?

p@mast3rs wrote on 1/11/2005, 4:28 PM

I am just hoping Sony can find a way to do what Avid is doing for their NLE and do it for Vegas. Then I could totally dump Avid altogether.