The question was, will the trial version that you may download and try out have the 3rd party apps with it for the trial...the answer is no, the 3rd party apps will not be included in the trial, just the core program...they will however, be included in the package when you buy it.  

My system has 2 hard drives, both SATA - the OS is on a 160G drive and everything else is on the 500G media drive.  No problems at all...I know of no reason not to use a SCSI drive for the boot drive, you just need to jump through a few hoops, per google.  On the other hand, I know of no reason to use SCSI anymore...the SCSI advantage, ...

I just wanted to say thanks to John for his post 'maybe time to go to the Big House.'  I would say that his post on the Avid forum caused a watershed of thoughts, ideas and finally an upgrade offer from Avid!  Thanks, John!

Interesting turn of events, I'd say... At any rate, I downloaded the 30 day trial, then looked for some info on how to get the program running.  As has been said elsewhere, Douglas Bruce has some great tutorials and I took advantage of watching some and would recommend those of you getting started have a look.  You can look at them ...

I have several albums that I have added as well.  As Fred says, the  mood mapping doesn't work through Liquid, but the music plays fine as stereo.  Smartsound has a sale going on at the moment...have a look here.

Have you installed the DX10 patch?  Here: http://forums.pinnaclesys.com/forums/thread/369581.aspx

Denny, there are some super tutorials for MC which will make the learning curve manageable, and I am sure that Avid will 'make it right' to get to v5, if it comes along.

With the green showing up it may be a video card problem...we (the royal 'we') need to know what your equipment is before we can make any suggestions...OS, processor, memory, hard drives and most importantly, video card, whether onboard or otherwise.  You may need the DX10 patch or other corrections...

bigrock: Q: On aside does anyone know if it's ok to install the same license of Liquid on my laptop for use when I am away, I wasn't sure so I haven't done it yet but would like to be able add that to my mobile toolbox. You may use your one license one computer at a time, so use it on your desktop and when you use it on your laptop, the ...

Check this thread...you just need to know that .mov is a quicktime file.