It would be nice if in a future release they enabled the other advanced keyframe controls like Bezier curves for even more precise adjustments. This is handy for shots with iris changes, or creating a light dimming effect for example. You can adjust individual parameters with fine control and “elastic” smoothing. The color correction effect now takes advantage of the advanced keyframe engine. This means that entering the top effect, allows you to adjust every effect in a nested stack. Instead of “stepping into” effects to adjust nested effect parameters, they now show up in the top effect.
In the effects area, some nice interface changes have taken place, for example adjusting nested effects is now streamlined.
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If you are one of those users who is used to taking your dongle from your desktop to your laptop to travel for instance, you now have to make sure you deactivate your desktop software before you can activate your laptop. The new “software activation” can be cool, but you really need to rethink how you move between multiple computers. This version allows you the choice of getting rid of your dongle now with a promise of a dongle-free V.4.0 in the near future. Whether you like the dongle or hate it, it is on its death bed. The first immediately noticeable difference is the new software activation mode. There are a lot of bug fixes, new features and a paradigm shifting change in this version. With the release of V.3.5 of Media Composer and Symphony, the revamped company is showing that it really cares what we think again. With two aggressive leadership changes in the last few years, those days appear to be over. Those of us who have been editing for a while, remember Avid becoming the “product we love and the company we hate,” starting around the new millennium. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: XP, Vista Business, OSX 10.57 (Intel Mac only)
PRODUCT: Avid Media Composer 3.5 ( Stay tuned for a V.4 review soon!)