Free Avid! They Are Too Nice!

**komatoast** · 10-30-2006, 09:40 AM

not sure if this has already been posted but i thought i may as well stick it up here for people who are using movie maker and dont want pay for any editing software ----> http://www.avid.com/freedv/index.asp

although this free software is not packed full of extras and will only export to .mov it looks like a masive step up for people on movie maker.. also it uses multi track a/v (only 2 mind but its better than movie maker!)

i havnt had a look at this download but from what i have read it sounds pretty good for nothing!

anybody had a go with this i would love to see how you find it

**Mihai** · 10-30-2006, 10:26 AM

Really difficult and really useless. It can give you a chance to familiarise with the Avid standard GUI, but it's sooo limited.

**komatoast** · 10-30-2006, 10:53 AM

yeah its says its very limited... i posted if to those using movie maker and would like to try a multi track editing system

**Best_OutRunner** · 02-04-2007, 08:42 AM

In some ways I'd say its worse than Movie Maker, at least Movie maker gives you the luxuary of chosing more than one export format. :/

**noa** · 02-04-2007, 02:37 PM

Originally Posted by komatoast

Free Avid! they are too nice

I have used it longer time ago but it is actualy a seriously crippled version of it's older brother, second "problem" is that you need a rocket science degree to operate it. Furthermore it really likes the memory of your pc, especially for such a limited program it keeps your pc busy. Also the step up to it's older xpress pro brother is a quite expensive one, there is really nothing inbetween that you could consider a normal step for, let's say, movie maker clients. Then it's better just to spend a bit of money on Premier elements, magix videodeluxe and other NLE's in that price class, they offer a lot more then this free avid thing.

The free avid software did really not convince me

**rgrebby** · 05-07-2007, 07:06 PM

tried it and copuldnt get the windows to stay in place, they seemed to snap back to the most stupid positions.
I'll go back to pp2

**bert6280** · 05-07-2007, 08:54 PM

I tried it out of curiosity a while back.

Having been a Premiere user since version 5.1, I quickly realised that Avid was a learning curve that I didn't want or need to climb.

Bert's a simpleton, and sticks with what he knows...