Price: Free Trial
Silver: $72.71
Gold: $116.39
Version Reviewed: 2.01.00
Test System: Intel P4 Northwood 3.4GHz, 2GB GeIL PC4000, 2 x Western Digital Raptor 36.7GB RAID0, Asus P4C800-E Deluxe, Asus ATI Radeon 9600XT

Throw away your editing card, rewrite the editing bible... there's a new player in town and Tenomichi aims to thrust the graphics card into the video editing limelight. Whilst any video editing forum would proudly proclaim "your fancy modern graphics card plays an insignificant role in the video editing world, and your powerful graphics chips (GPU) rests firmly in the hand of hard core gamers", what if someone found a way to utilise the untapped potential of the GPU? What if their claim was real time editing,the holy grail of any editing application? Well, the recommended minimum specifications of 3D Edit hint of that change to come - a DX9.0 compatible graphics card (a full list of supported cards can be found here).

Without getting all geeky on you, 3D Edit uses the power of your DirectX 9.0 graphics card with Shader Model 2 to apply effects in real time, with each effect applied using separate "shaders". And because the whole interface is in 3d, you can easily zoom in on your video. I could write pages about the technology behind the software, but what's really important is the end product. So how does this young pretender stack up?