Got Jahshaka?

Now's where the rubber meets the road...

For those of you out there that say they want 'high end' editing software but they can't afford the bucks [or if you don't mind the dangers of a smoking CPU or jail time scarfing a copy off some bit-torrent site] here's a viable alternative that might be up your ally!

Jahshaka- Powering The New Hollywood!

Utilizing open library architecture and the fact that it is open source [of course!] it rivals many of the commercially available editing suites that some would consider "moderately priced"!

It seems to run very well on Macs- and from what I've seen from dabbling editor friends of mine it works equally as well from Windows XP machines [get this- the architecture allows for cross-platform sharing of edited materials! That used to be a contract/vendor exclusive only realm!]

How well does it fare on a Vista platform..?

The jury's out on that- I'm not inclined to put Jahshaka [or much of anything else since I can't seem to run HALO 2] on this infernal thing- and they are now running a J3 Beta through T&A...

J2 [or V2 as they refer to it] is solid and seems to do just fine- there had been a sponsorship problem for the upgrade to V3- with people holding the money calling the shots- all of them across-the-bow and woefully inept, slow and bureaucratic... So V3 is still a little ways off [there's a Jah-Player V3 that's done but what's innovative has little relevancy if there's no new editing architecture to drive it...]

[kind of like producers coming in 3/4 of the way through a production & saying "This isn't going the way we want it- we're taking over" "Highlander 3" anyone..?]

Give it a shot- definitely sign up for their forum- given that open source software does have its bugs from time to time I've seen nothing but commitment and loyalty to this product since I blundered into it about 2 or 3 years ago!

Cleric