[quote user="dltarr"]Hey, this will be the first time that I grab something from the Avid forum for the wiki! [/quote] I can see Sylvain smiliing wryly from here

[quote user="dermot"]i don't use SD often, but from memory it's in the pulldown menu in the dig/capture tool, same place as the DNX is for HD[/quote] That's absolutely where it is

[quote user="Gafyn"]" Do not make WMV files straight out of the DS." I love it! [/quote] To explain the rationale behind that statement (I wrote it, but it's quoted out of context) DS can only perform single-pass encoding. Dual-pass, as described in the article, makes considerably better looking files. Plus, the options are much

[quote user="Edius"] Thanks all of you! but failed again [/quote] Just a thought, but do you have SP3 on that XP Pro installation? As Sylvain has said, with repeated failures to install you must have an OS failure somewhere. I'd FDisk the drive, install XP clean, do any MS updates, then get DS installed. It's not rocket science - DS

[quote user="switthaus"]There is a big 'brand identity/communication' problem at Avid. Just what are they?[/quote] Scott - after all these years and management changes, they still don't appear to know the answer to that question. Maybe they're a server-company-in-waiting ;)

[quote user="dermot"] ... Autodesk has been very agressive in targeting DS users, owners, artists.. they read the google list, and they use whateever they can.. Avid does not seem to read the google listt? [/quote] And doesn't that in itself tell you all you need to know about how much Avid cares about DS? I can't blame Kirk directly

Great words of advice David :)

Great story, Dermot. Thanks for sharing :) What would you say was the biggest problem when grading - would it be the interface by any chance? Tony

Hi, Does anyone know if there's been any progress on getting DS a darker interface to stop that 30" monitor glowing in your face like a headlight when colour correcting? So many folk (including myself) use DS for high-end grading. Despite the lack of an external interface it's an extremely competent grading system apart from that bright

[quote user="mrmikster"]Too bad Avid's internal folks aren't better aware of this.[/quote] ... or the rest of DS's feature set. Unless it's to cobble those features into the Phony product that they do love. Tony