Although Scan Computers has been offering a range of video editing systems for quite some while, it's seemed to dabble rather than go all out for market share in this relatively small but potentially lucrative sector. Judging by the company's attendance at this week's VideoForum show, though, the dabbling is over.
The very fact that the company had a stand is a clear indicator of its seriousness but others were apparent, too. The size of the stand, for one - not huge but big enough to demonstrate that the company means business. Then there were the products it was showing. Pride of place went to a screamingly quick dual-processor/dual-core system - AMD-based, like everything else on the stand, making us assume that AMD "helped out" with the expenses of exhibiting.
Click for larger imageSignificantly, Scan's showing included the current HOT video-editing hardware/software combination, Canopus's EDIUS NX - far and away the most convincing of the affordable (though not ultra-cheap) solutions for editing the consumer-targeted HDV, high-def camcorder format.
More significant still, Scan now has on its team someone with in-depth knowledge of video editing - a new recruit called Peter Davies - who looks set to give the company real focus in what it does and where it goes with video-editing systems. And, if that happens, even the best dedicated builders of video editing systems, such as the highly-respected south-coast outfit DVC - whose VideoForum stand was one of the busiest and most bustling - need to watch out for this sleeping giant's awakening.
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