Non-linear editing

We also began the beginning of our animation work, and this is a really important thing, which we'll come on to a little bit later, because we have done a lot of work behind the scenes on the engine, and we'll discuss this.

We also added some really important features which you don't see very well, or very often, or done well even in NLEs, which is things like the project recovery.

We think it's a best-of-class system, you being able to go back and look at where a product was, especially in a multiplayer environment, because one of the fears that people have about multiplayer is what happens if another user comes in and alters something which has already been done? Well, we have a great history in the product that you can roll back it to any point.

We also changed and tweaked the plans.

And all of that's been made possible.

You know, we've done it with video, but we're now doing it with graphics and text.

And we believe that this is going to put us really not just on par with what happens with some of the bigger NLEs and desktop products, but actually text is traditionally done quite badly.

And it means that A lot of the time people have to rely on visual effects tools like After Effects to do their sort of more complex animations.

I, I don't know this for a fact, but I'm assuming it won't be the same as Media Composer running on Chrome with all the same tools, all the same effects, the same trimming abilities, et cetera, et ce- the same collaboration abilities.

It will be a simplified version of a browser-based NLE, but not true Media Composer in a browser.

And, but Avid's-

I could be wrong, but

Well, God, do I let Andy go? Do I follow up on Patrick's point? Let me say real quick to Patrick's point about mixing.

Nowadays, the-- sometimes audio editors on films will share screenshots of their, their projects in the, in the NLE, the non-linear editor, like your Final Cut Pro and stuff, and you're looking at dozens, I mean, in some cases, like 100 tracks of audio and stuff.

Like, that was simply not even close to possible back then.

Here's a quote I grabbed from Gearspace, formerly, uh, of a different name.