Today is a celebration of sorts. It is not often that an e-mail from Avid makes me gripe and giggle at the same time, but this one did. It read:

Subject: (Avid Community) Post Approved: Re: 4Gb card on a 2Gb Lanshare
From: "Avid Community - Automated Email" ForumAdministrator at avid.com

The post was approved and is ready to be viewed at the URL below.

Subject: Re: 4Gb card on a 2Gb Lanshare

http://community.avid.com/forums/p/61877/346745.aspx#346745

Thanks,
Avid Community team

It has only been 209 days since I made that post and now, finally, it got approved. Wow!

Why, you would ask, did this post have to be approved in the first place?

The new version of Media Composer - 3.5 - is out, which means end of development for the 3.1.x line. This is significant in one little aspect.

Back in v. 3.1 I noticed something that was really hard to miss: if there was a FireWire deck connected to the computer, you'd get a C++ Runtime error right after you quit the application. it read: "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library. Runtime Error! Program: ...ramFiles\Avid\Avid Media Composer\AvidMediaComposer.exe. R6025. - pure vertual function call" OK.

There are many requests for information on Unity performance under real-life conditions. There are few instances when exact setups can be duplicated for different installations, which may be the main reason why Avid doesn't really get into the business of predicting MediaNet's performance under this or that set of circumstances and rightfully so. Nevertheless this intended series of postings may be valuable to get a general idea of what should be expected from a particular configuration. I will be publishing and updating results as they become available.

I guess it's official: Avid Marketing discarded a well founded tradition of selecting a new and distinctive name for each platform and picked the most confusing, well, tag really — DX.

Yep, all that brain-storming, new thinking fully engaged, all the market research, audience testing resulted in just two letters. The first one is 'D', the second one is 'X'. And I don't have to remind you of all the possible associations with the letter 'X'. I hope this platform doesn't become known as The Marked One.