I wouldn't touch Protools with a 50ft barge pole. It was so buggy on my system (Win 98) I almost cried. Goldwave is the way to go, and if I can hype up Editstudio a little more too... :)

Editstudio is my fave video editor, soon to be hitting its version 4. www.puremotion.com It's cheap, powerful, and easy to use. Plus, the guys there provide amazing help and tech support. If you're after a free vid editor you can always do a search for ABC videoroll.

Zerebrom- nice of hear of another Amiga user ;) I'm with you on principle. You have a good point, (that we have the right to have the software work) but Poser 5 is obviously a step into new teritories for Curious, and it is obvious they are trying to get things fixed. At the moment, it isn't a perfect piece of software, but it's pretty good, and (at least) has support. Programs today do seem to be a little rougher around the edges, but even you'd agree that programs like Poser are now doing things that are extremely complex, compared to what similar ones were doing 2+ years ago. Like it or not, we live in an age of increasingly detailed software, and patches. It's just the way of things. With Truespace- I'm using the free 3.2 version. And... WOW does that have some serious rounding errors going on. It might have been 'good' back then, but even after all of its patches, it is still problematic in the way it does things like its painting.

Well, Zbrush is fast (unless you're mucking around with 2048 pictures and a while pile of layers, under which things get slow), and while Bryce runs quite smoothly under Direct3D, it bogs without. The same goes for Truespace. "The walk designer in poser 4 would not take as long to load and was responsive and would not crash like p5's." I've never had it crash, and although I've only played with the Poser 4 demo, the loadtimes on both were the same. Now don't get me wrong here- I'm not trying to defend Poser 5's bugs (and there are still some good ones to work out... and why they haven't yet is beyond me) but being a first time user of Poser (and using version 5, obviously) I haven't had much difficulty with it at all. It has its quirks, but then so did Poser 4 when I played with it. The way you guys talk, you'd think Poser 4 was some amazing god-like program without a problem. Are we talking about the same programs here? Is Poser 5 really 50% defunct (and I'm just really blind) or... you're over doing it a bit, maybe?

I'm no expert with Poser, but... is it really that slow? I mean, it isn't going to win any races (what program like Poser will?), but it isn't THAT slow. I'm running a 1.53Ghz Athlon (around a 2Ghz P3). I'm not sure about the future of programs like Poser, and although I agree there are certain aspects that need a little fine-tuning, I struggle to understand why you think something like the walk designer sucks. Can elaborate for little ol' me? ;)