Avid has converted me

I am a former Canopus RaptorRT and Prem6 User, my experiences after an initial bout of growing pains (or shrinking pains, as far as my bank balance is concerned)is that I have installed:



a new sound card (SB Live! 5.1)

a new video card (GeForce4 Ti4400)

doubled my RAM (512 to 1024mb)

installed XP pro (clean install )

and await a new proc. (p4 1.4 socket 423 to p4 2.4 socket 478)



I am finding XDV 3.5 to be REALLY REALLY stable. In the coming weeks I will report my progress. The main thing that I have noticed is the ability to work with long clips as well as short clips equally well. In Premiere my definition of a long clip was 5 minutes give or take a minute I have found that working with XDV 3.5 long clips out to 20 minutes do not present any problems whatsoever.

If the choice remains to be made between Premiere and XDV use Premiere for the Windows movie maker replacement and Avid for the serious work.