Jamie Carr and those boys were awesome in their day. I had visited the in-sync HQ here in Maryland a few times and was always impressed. Not sure where things went wrong, it's shame too, some great shows were (and still are) cut on Razor. I wish Sony could grab those programmers and code and borrow some of the better stuff developed for Razor to use in Vegas. It was way ahead of it's time. I think Vegas is still a few years behind Razor in many aspects (compositing, dealing with FX, SDI and real HD support, hardware support, multithreading, timeline interface, etc...) I felt Insync was slow with supporting DV and firewire and that might have been an early blow, but way ahead in developing a program that was hardware and format independent.

Some of the cleanest work I ever did was with JVC's Digital-S (4:2:2) via SDI into my Video Toaster 2000 card, using Razor.... oh, and editing real-time (software only, no hardware acceleration) on a dual P3, circa 2000!!!

Will Vegas, 5 years later, have such offerings in 2005? mmmm....

According to this guy, it was over for sometime before they actually went out of business.

http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/2001/03_mar/editorials/chazzletter19.htm

Here is another link about in-sync:

http://www.zenvideo.co.uk/in-sync_main.htm

Thanks for the infos. Very sad to see what likely happened to them. Though Vegas is and will still be my very #1 I was very interested in Blade. Had some exciting features and workflows.

Marco

meh - I used Speedrazor - I'd take Vegas over it anyday - maybe I just wasn't using it for what it was best for though.

Dave

blade could have been a great program -- had some great features, but not the performance or stability ..

SR was definately a great program for me. I totally loved that prog. From media management to the multitrack timeline, it was really well thoughtout. A combination fo Vegas with SR would be my ultimate editing software (I only have a few complaints about Vegas).
(Really, I'd be happy with Vegas if it just had better media management, 10bit editing, made EVERYthing on an event or track level, rather then just track level ((on some items)) and I STILL can't wrap my head around track motion and especially pan/crop. - but that's because I'm from the SR/Boris RED camp.)

I miss being able to move/crop clips around right in the preview window. I also miss how SR dealt with FX. I liked taking an FX and dragging it to the TL as an event, that can be assigned to any clips above or below it. Very useful for applying an FX to a sequence that has lots of clips with cross fades....

(insert cricket chirps)

mjroddy, I get the feeling that most people here think we are nuts.... I agree, a hybrid of SR and Vegas would be awesome.

last point: the new version of Excalibur 4 will import Razor/Incite files.
http://www.vegastrainingandtools.com/excalibur4_sony_vegas_plugin.html

"(insert cricket chirps)"

HAHAHA!!! Yeah... Well, they're just confirming what other folk have been telling me for a while now.
I felt SR was a very underratted editing tool. LIke you, I loved being able to add a single (for example) Boris RED FX to the timeline and have it affect several clips and their transitions. You could composite in some very cool and simple ways.
Plus, as I mentioned above, I liked that once you saved a clip, it had a folder for every type of media you used. Never had to wonder where I'm saving this or that to and how to get rid of an entire set of clips for a particular project. Make no mistake, with some forthought, this is all doable in Vegas, but I liked it being done for me. I'm lazy that way.
I also liked that EVERYTHING was on the clip/event level.
Guess it's all in how you're brought up.