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From: Skelton, Kim
To: 'avid-l@calvin.edu'
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 12:55 PM
Subject: DPS Velocity
They also stated that they have turn key systems available and for the do it yourselfer's the hardware to build your own.
What does the list think?
Do it yourself - I just helped nextbigstar.com put together their Adobe Premier/Pinnacle DC-1000 edit system, with Adaptec 2940UW SCSI and a lovely 50 Gig Seagate SCSI drive. I HATE NT. Everything is difficult. If you think that you ever suffer with your AVID, try doing a "build it yourself" with no factory support using NT as the platform.
We finally got it working (the bums used to use an AVID, and got this horrible
Pinnacle system). I feel that I practically learned nothing about NT in the process - a lot of it was guessing, and getting lucky clicking on the right menus.
When you do a "do it yourself", a lot of manufacturers don't want to hear why the other companies board or device is not working. A lot of documentation is outdated (certainly Adobe does not address the Pinnacle hardware in their documentation, and the Pinnacle Documentation is outdated, as was the Adaptec 2940UW). Yes we finally got it working - do I feel good about it - NO - I suffered. It is the year 2000, you should not have to suffer trying to guess which driver is the correct one, or where they have buried the menus that are not mentioned in the documentation.
Do it yourself is not easy, especially when you are not on a MAC. That is why AVID, Media 100, etc. charge lots of money for their stuff - they have figured it out already, and save you the suffering. And to Media 100's credit, they have printed a pretty concise "compatable peripheral guide" to help cut thru the BS.
I hate NT (still ranting about it after all this time).
bob Zelin
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