The ease, user friendliness of Studio (especially with its ease of DVD creation within the program), all the bells and whistles and the power of Liquid all rolled into one "Studio Professional" program with all the latest updates (AVCHD editing, blu ray burner support, etc.).  I can dream right?

Yes we can.  Suppose we can also convince Chevy to sell us a Cobalt with a Corvette body, interior, drive train and suspension?

Pinnacle are developing NextGen to replace Liquid, and the Liquid guys are worried that it will be moved downmarket so as not to threaten Avid MC. Even if that isn't the case, I can't see any marketing logic in eating away even more at NextGen's positioning by doing an upmarket version of Studio.

jjn:

Pinnacle are developing NextGen to replace Liquid, and the Liquid guys are worried that it will be moved downmarket so as not to threaten Avid MC. Even if that isn't the case, I can't see any marketing logic in eating away even more at NextGen's positioning by doing an upmarket version of Studio.

I agree with you somewhat. While Liquid is far more complex and feature rich and Studio, I do think that there is a place for something more that Studio but less than Liquid (or NextGen). More video/audio tracks, quicktime support, etc.... Multicam? No. Lots of 2D, 3D, Classic, GPU, Vectorscope, etc.? No. 

patndave:

  Suppose we can also convince Chevy to sell us a Cobalt with a Corvette body, interior, drive train and suspension?

 

I'll take two, please.