Avid Technology, Inc. Message Board

Hey Bud,
Avid had a major PR problem when
they
announced at NAB 99 that they were going to drop the MAC
platform THEY HAD TO BACK TRACK REAL QUICK

Avid
Developed for Wintel because
Microsoft bailed them
out

Ever try upgrading from NT4.0 to Windows 2000 Have
Fun

Wasn't crying about my kids just trying to
show you
that things will change as this age group gets older
and just won't give a shit if their editing programs
come from Avid. Do you still get a hard on thinking
about Word Perfect or think of all word processors as
generic

Not for long (so was CMX and Ampex ADO
GVG K-Scope
and even Quantel Paintbox--
Photoshop put a major
hurt on paintbox,Affter Effects put a major hurt on
all 2D compositing
systems

There are more
Avid Hack Editor's than in every other segment of the
post industry combined !!!!! Good editor's will cofirm
this!!!
Hey want a freebie to Avid Boot Camp

Or would
you like to buy a TAXICAB

All you have doing on this board is to promote
Apple's FC which needs to run on a Power PC machine. The
rest of the PCs in the world, roughly 95% of them, run
on WinTel machines.

Fact: Professional
editors prefer to use AVID products whether they run on
Power PC machines or WinTel machines if they want
professional results.

Fact: Since there are 95% more
WinTel machines in the world than Power PC machines, it
was a natural choice for AVID to develop and release
professional products to run on WinTel machines bsides running
on Power PC machines.

Fact: You have been
crying about your children not being able to edit their
videos from their camcorders. Some one has already
provided you information in a previous note where support
for Power PC machines and WinTel machines has been
available for some time from AVID and AVID partners like
Matrox (and for only a few hundred dollars). AVID has
decided to no longer release future updates due to low
profitability even though the product has a large user base and
has won many technical awards.

Fact: AVID is
still the standard by which all competitor's products
are judged.

Fact: The Broadcasting,
Entertainment, Industrial, Educational and Marketing
organizations who want a professional productions still demand
AVID products.

Fact: AVID editors are still
considered the cream of the crop and will outperform any
other job applicant.

Electroflyer, just who are
you and what is your gig? It is quite obvious you are
short on AVID but you don't speak the truth because you
can't handle the truth. You showed your ignorance when
you didn't even know that Apple was marketing AVID
Cinema a few years ago to take care of your children's
video editing needs.

There is no way Fox is cutting on FCP. NO WAY,
unless they're total idiots. It's all Avid in the
industry, hands down, end of story. unless of course Fox is
planning on switching broadcast format to VHS instead of
D1, lol!

More to the point, any idea why the
runup and subsequent drop last month? I know the drop
was market crash related, but the stock should've
recovered by now. They finally have written off all their
expenses and look to be turning the corner. Any other
longs out there? What do you see as far as short
term/long term price?
I'm hoping to be back in low 20's
by Fall, but am not so sure,...

-Jedi

Is this the same Fox that trailblazed with that winning (sarcasm) tape standard, Digital S (that is, digital VHS) as a broadcast standard?

LOL